‘Kilmallock borough and Dominican priory: Medieval planning, patronage and urban life in medieval Ireland’ (original) (raw)

Abstract

In this seminar paper I discussed new and original research carried out on the Dominican friary and the medieval borough of Kilmallock, Co. Limerick. I discussed the origins and the development of the borough of Kilmallock, and how it fits in the context of borough planning introduced by the Anglo-Normans in thirteenth-century Ireland, looking at the documentary and physical clues that exist about its development, and examined whether they amount to systematic planning. I then reflected on the position of the Dominican friary in the context of mendicant settlement, looking at the planning of the church and the domestic buildings, and re-assessed the architecture and structural development of the friary. The overall question asked in this paper, which is also one that encompasses most f my work on the mendicant, was what could this all tell us about piety and patronage, the relation between friars and the laity, and its impact on mendicant architecture, especially the feature of the so-called ‘one-armed transept’, which became ubiquitous in late medieval friaries, especially Dominican and Franciscan foundations.

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