Walled garden

The National Monuments Service's description

Listed in the RMP (1996) as ‘Walled enclosure’. A subrectangular enclosure (int. dims. c. 250m ENE-WSW; c. 210m NNW-SSE) defined by the remains of an often substantial and well-built mortared stone wall defines the precincts of Corcomroe Abbey (CL003-029002-) with a gatehouse (CL003-029005-) at W. The wall is poorly preserved but is best seen at the N end of the E side (H 2.5m; Wth 0.95m) where there are undressed blocks and boulders in random courses. Along the N the wall is levelled and replaced by a later and largely tumbled field wall with the foundations of the older wall visible intermittently. The NE corner survives for 1.9m in length at the E end of the N wall and is traceable S for 25m where its line again is followed by a later wall. Midway along the E side a good 8m length survives. At S apart from a short length near the E end (Wth 3m; H 0.2m) the line is followed by an overgrown later field wall. The W side is only traceable as a foundation line between the SW corner and the road leading into the site. Immediately N of the road is the gatehouse and N of this the enclosing wall curves intermittently. The interior of the walled garden has been ‘striped’ with long narrow fields orientated NNW-SSE and the abbey stands to the S of centre within it. This is a national monument in State Care.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 21 April 2015

This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 1/1986).