Publication Account

Date 1981

Event ID 1018060

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

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A third order of friars, that of the Carmelites, was shortlived in Edinburgh. Founded in 1520 x 1525 on a site in Greenside, by 1529/30 there was friction with Holyrood Abbey which led to the 'downcasting of the house in which the friars lived' (Cowan, 1976, 136).

Information from ‘Historic Edinburgh, Canongate and Leith: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1981).