Editing Timoleague Friary (section)

== In culture ==
[[File:NEWENHAM(1830) p093 CORK - TIMOLEAGUE ABBEY.jpg|thumb|Sketch of the friary, [[Robert O'Callaghan-Newenham]], c. 1820<ref>{{Cite web|title=Untitled Post - Argideen Rangers GAA|url=https://sites.google.com/a/gaa.ie/argideen-rangers-gaa-cork/club-news-1/untitledpost-2|access-date=2022-01-03|website=sites.google.com}}</ref>]]
[[William Ashford]] depicted the friary several times: first in a pencil sketch,{{Sfn|Harbison|2007|p=3}} and then again among his earliest landscape works, which include a rough drawing of the friary, titled ''Timoleague (abbey ruins)'',{{Sfn|Crookshank|1995|p=120}} which he followed with two 1776 watercolours of the ruins.<ref>{{Cite web|title=OMNIA – [Two watercolour paintings of 'Timoleague Abbey' (Co. Cork) / by William Ashford.]|url=https://www.omnia.ie/index.php?navigation_function=2&navigation_item=/09701/ED9E8187735CD0B3AC42F436B27F1D0AF59F224D&repid=1|access-date=2022-01-03|website=www.omnia.ie}}</ref> The Irish writer Seán Ó Coileáin wrote the c. 1812 poem {{Lang|ga|Machtnadh an Duine Dhoilghiosaich}} about the ruins.{{Sfn|Kilfeather|2006|p=92}}{{Sfn|Färber|2014}} [[James Hardiman]] described it as one of the "finest modern poems in the Irish language" in 1831.{{Sfn|Hardiman|1831|p=410}} It has been translated to English several times, including as ''The Mourner's Soliloquy in the Ruined Abbey of Timoleague'' and as ''Lament over the Ruins of the Abbey of Teach Molaga'' by [[Samuel Ferguson|Sir Samuel Ferguson]].{{Sfn|Hardiman|1831|p=410}}{{Sfn|Färber|2011}} A bronze cast of one of the verses in the original Irish is located at the entrance gate of the ruins.{{Sfn|Crowley|2016|p=6}}