placenamesCloontuskert
Cluain Tuaiscirt
Lewis recorded a twenty-one-year lease of the former abbey’s possessions and the continued use of its burial ground.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cluain Tuaiscirt · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Cloontuskert · English · main form
Place & story
The abbey’s later history
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Cloontuskert in County Roscommon records that the abbey’s possessions were leased at the dissolution to Fryall O’Farrell for twenty-one years. The annual rent was eleven pounds, nine shillings and eight pence. Lewis found little of the buildings remaining but described the cemetery as still in use. His account thus distinguishes the loss of the monastic buildings from the continuing burial function of the site. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Roscommon
- Barony
- Ballintober South
- Coordinates
- 53.67890, -8.03041
- Mapped area
- 30.34 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2062 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Cloontuskert. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Clontuskert or Clonthuskert, Ballintobber — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.