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Killagha

Location
(52°8′55″N, 9°43′28″W)
Killagha
Q 82 01
pre-1974 traditional (Republic of Ireland) Kerry
now Kerry
  • Tessa Garton

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Feature Sets
Description

13thc. church with a single long nave, and some 15thc. details. Romanesque fragments have been reused in the internal masonry of the W doorway.

History

The Abbey was erected on the site of an older monastery of St Colman some time after 1216 by Geoffrey de Marisco for the Canons Regular of St Augustine. The Abbey was suppressed in 1576.

Features

Interior Features

Interior Decoration

Miscellaneous
Comments/Opinions

Carmody (1906) describes the W doorway as having jambstones 'torn out and removed'. The carved fragments are clearly reused in their present position, and are shallow carved and crude.

Bibliography
Carmody, Rev. J., ‘The Abbey of Killagha’, JRSAI, 36, 1906, 285-96.
Gwynn, A. and Hadcock, R.N., Medieval Religious Houses, Ireland,London, 1970, 182.
P. Harbison, , Guide to the National and Historic Monuments of Ireland, 1970, 116; 1992, 181.
H. G. Leask, Irish Churches and Monastic Buildings, 1960, III, 124.