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Leper hospital

Maudlin (Fassadinin By., Kilmacar ED), County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Leper hospital, Maudlin, County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Maudlin (Fassadinin By., Kilmacar ED)
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.76457, -7.24477
SMR number
KK010-134----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 202-3) notes that the townland name, 'Maudlin', 'was used to denote a lazar house, or leper hospital. That a house, or hospital, of this class stood here, in ancient times may be taken for granted, though all tradition in connection with it has died out'. However, according to local tradition a leper hospital was located in the southern portion of the townland, the remaining foundations of which were demolished in the 1970s/early 1980s. It is not visible at ground level.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 17 January 2019

References

Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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