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=== As ruins === After the friary was burnt, local families began to bury their dead within the friary regardless of status, something which previously had only been done for prominent local families.{{Sfn|Crowley|2016|pp=7–8}} Despite the burning of the friary, the Franciscan community of Timoleague survived for close to two centuries.{{Sfn|Coombes|1969|p=35}} In 1696 four friars were reportedly living in the ruined monastery.{{Sfn|Franklin|1892|p=178}} Though the Franciscan community dispersed by the mid-eighteenth century, individual friars remained in the area for several more decades.{{Sfn|Conlan|1978|p=104}} The last Franciscan friar working in the area was Fr Edmund Tobin (also known as Bonaventure Tobin),{{Sfn|Coombes|1969|p=51}} who died circa 1822.<ref name=":1" /> The Franciscans appointed titular guardians of the friary up until 1872.{{Sfn|Coombes|1969|p=51}} The last guardian of Timoleague friary was Patrick Carey.{{Sfn|Pochin Mould|1991|p=94}} Interest in the friary was renewed during the [[Romanticism|Romantic era]] of the early 19th century, and many paintings and sketches of the friary exist from this period.{{Sfn|Coombes|1969|p=52}} On 15 January 1848, Fr Matt Horgan, writing under the [[Pen name|pen-name]] "Viator", wrote the following which was released in the ''Cork Examiner:'' {{Blockquote|text="The walls [of the friary] are washed by the tide and some large breaches are already made in the burying ground, much to the disgrace of the lord of the soil, who must be either some heartless absentee, or a Gothic resident, having no feeling of fatherland; irrespective of its history or monuments, thinking only of bullocks, and knowing nothing, and caring less for the arts; blind to the beauties, with heart closed against the romance and poetry of the glorious past, and its mute but still eloquent memorials."}} Soon after the publication of these remarks, Colonel Robert Travers, the so-called "lord of the soil", had the walls of the friary grounds replaced, and a road built between them and the sea, all at his own expense.{{Sfn|Coombes|1969|p=52}} In 1891, mass was celebrated in the friary for the first time since it was burnt down 249 years prior.{{Sfn|O'Mahony|1892|p=109}} One of the Timoleague chalices (the Dale-Browne Chalice) was used on the occasion.{{Sfn|O'Mahony|1892|pp=109–110}} In 1892, Denham Franklin wrote that {{Blockquote|text="The preservation of the abbey is mainly due to the care bestowed on it by the family of the present proprietor of Timoleague, Mr. Robert Travers, who did not allow the depredations unfortunately too common on our ancient buildings."}} In 1920, in response to the murder of three police officers by Irish nationalists, British soldiers desecrated the friary's burial ground. Burial vaults were opened, and the flags that had been draped over the coffins within were torn and cast aside. Coffins were opened, and in some cases, human remains were left visible.{{Sfn|Donnelly|2012|p=151}} The friary has been listed as a discovery point on the [[Wild Atlantic Way]] since it was established in 2014.<ref name=":2" /> Irish-language writer [[Máire Ní Shíthe]] was interred in the friary in an unmarked grave in 1955. In 2016 the location of her burial was identified, and a commemorative stone placed above it.{{Sfn|Ó Donnabháin|2016|pp=8–10}}
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