Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Gatehouse
Abbey West, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Abbey West
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.12645, -9.05572
- SMR number
- CL003-029005-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Immediately N of a roadway on the W line of the walled garden (CL003-029001-) marking the precincts of Corcomroe Abbey (CL003-029002-). A gatehouse, the upper parts of which collapsed soon after 1839 (Stalley 1987, 176). Two parallel mortared stone walls (Wth 0.7m; H 4m; L 9.2m) oriented E-W, 5m apart. There is a plain flat-headed doorway (Wth 1m) at the W end of the N wall. On the enclosure wall immediately to the N and S are two narrow slit windows. According to Stalley (ibid.) the medieval gatehouse was manned by a porter whose attitude to visitors was not necessarily as warm-hearted as it should have been.
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).
References
Stalley, R. 1987 The Cistercian monasteries of Ireland. London and New Haven. Yale University Press.
Nearby in the register
- Walled gardenunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Cistercian monksunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.