Timoleague Friary
The Timoleague Friary ( Irish Mainistir Thigh Molaige ) is a former Franciscan monastery in Ireland.
location
The monastery is located in Timoleague , County Cork, on the banks of the Argideen River overlooking Courtmacsherry Bay. At this place there was originally a church which was dedicated to St. Molaga, who is said to have lived in this area around 650 AD.
history
It is discussed whether the founding of the monastery dates back to the 13th century and goes back to the local clan MacCarthy Reagh and its head Domhnall Got MacCarthy, or whether it goes back to the Anglo-Norman family de Barry and thus William de Barry and his wife Margery de Courcy can be attributed and thus falls in the early 14th century.
The initially rather simple monastery church was expanded around 1500 by the Bishop of Ross, Edmund de Courcy , who was a member of the Franciscan order , and provided with the tower that can still be seen today. Edmund de Courcy was buried in the old cemetery in front of the monastery in 1518. The monastery existed until 1642 when it was burned down by English troops under Lord Forbes.
The monastery complexes are almost completely preserved in ruins. The picturesque ruins are the subject of several well-known elegiac poems from the 19th century.
literature
- Harold G. Leask: Irish Churches and Monastic Buildings , Vol. 3: Medieval Gothic . The last phases, Dundalk 1960, p. 107.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ ST McCarthy: The Clann Carthaigh (continued). Kerry Archaeological Magazine, 4, 19, pp. 207-214, October 1917 doi : 10.2307 / 30059770 JSTOR
- ^ Timoleague Franciscan Friary , Monastic Ireland. Retrieved October 12, 2018
Coordinates: 51 ° 38 ′ 35 " N , 8 ° 45 ′ 48" W.