Lislaughtin Abbey - County:
- Kerry
- Townland:
- Lislaughtin
- Coordinates:
- 52.5574, -9.4701
- Date:
- C15
- Architects:
- Builders:
- Stoneworkers:
Notes:
Established for the Franciscans in 1477 by John O'Connor Kerry, the main church has two tomb-niches in the nave, a triple sedilia in the choir, and a flame-shaped west window (Harbison 1992, p. 183). A building that functioned as a refectory on the ground floor and dormitory above is attached to the church.
The walls are built of tabular pieces of Namurian (Upper Carboniferous) fine-grained brown sandstone with some crudely dressed and squared rock-faced blocks of pale grey limestone inserted in infrequent courses at various haphazard levels. Quoins are generally of larger squared blocks. The doorways, window mullions and surrounds and tomb niches in the nave and the triple sedilia of the church as well as the ogee windows with hood moldings in the refectory are in dressed pale grey limestone. The stonework of the sedilia is especially well carved while the four light window tracery arch terminates on either side in elegant carvings.