⁹Seaver, Matthew. “Practice, Spaces and Places:an Archaeology of Boroughs as Manorial Centres in the Barony of Slane.” The Manor in Medieval and Early Modern Ireland, by James Lyttleton and Tadhg O'Keeffe, Dublin: Four Courts, 2005, 89-91.
In an email from Seaver to Conor Brady, following a query from this author, Seaver wrote: "The confusion came from Cogan who suggests that this new building was on the hill of Slane (Cogan 1862 Dioc I:284-5). There is no other evidence to back this suggestion and all the evidence including the dissolution documents for the Friary indicate that this building was the Hermitage of St Erc."