friaries around blackwater valley mallow

This Friary was founded for the Franciscans by David Oge Barry in 1251 and was dedicated to St Thomas a Becket. Of the monastic complex only the church remains; the domestic buildings have disappeared. The church consists of a long nave and choir, with a south transept. The door originally stood in the south part of the nave, but it was transferred (presumably in the 15th century) to the west gable; at he same time the original gable windows were blocked up and later Tudor windows inserted....