| TownlandGives the townland (name spelt as in TTPBI Index) in
which the site is (or is thought to be) located. | Abbeytown |
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| ParishGives the civil (not ecclesiastical) parish in which the townland is situated. | Donaghpatrick |
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| DioceseThis records the medieval (not necessarily the same as the modern) diocese in which the foundation lies. | Annaghdown |
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| BaronyGives the modern barony (as in TTPBI Index the baronies were rationalised in 19thC) in which the townland and civil parish are situated. | Clare |
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| CountyGives the county in which the barony lies. | Galway |
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| ProvinceGives both the civil province in which the county lies and the ecclesiastical province to which the diocese belongs. | Connacht; Tuam |
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| GenderThis seeks to classify foundations as male or female based on the gender of the reputed founder, the later succession-record or the placename of the site. | male? |
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| Field RemainsRecords physical remains of sites, whether visible in the field or accessed through excavation. Precedence is given to features considered to be characteristic of the Early Christian/pre-Reform era, such as enclosures, (especially circular or oval), cross-slabs, high-crosses, bullauns and raised areas — with round towers and church remains further down the list unless there is a strong case for doing otherwise. | eccl enclosure - probable; ch ruin? (13th &; 17thC phases); field system (nos. 3283-4, 3992) |
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| ArtifactsIn general, this records only items
which may support the case for the site as a pre-Reform ecclesiastical settlement (especially croziers, shrines, chalices etc) — whether recovered by search or excavation, or merely associated with the site by tradition. Also included are such items as querns and kilns as flour-production was an important part of life at ecclesiastical (although also, admittedly, at secular) settlement sites. | querns (med) &; graveslabs |
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| BibliographyMentions secondary references (sometimes very select indeed) to the site concerned. Some contain detailed discussion, others (especially where little else seems to be available) only the briefest mentions. For details see the Bibliography page. | O'Flanagan 1927, I, 160; Gwynn &; Hadcock 1970, 204-5; Alcock et al 1999, 289-91 |
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| AddendumIncludes fragments of additional information (or
comments on the part of the compilers) relating to the site in question. | OS 42: 'early Celtic monastery' - later dependency of Premonstratensian abbey at Annaghdown (1260) on site (Gwynn & Hadcock) |
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