Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - tower house
Abbeyshrule, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Abbeyshrule
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Abbeyshrule Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.57938, -7.65820
- SMR number
- LF023-113001-
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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
On the SE corner of the claustral range of buildings of the Cistercian abbey (LF023-113----) and within a graveyard (LF023-113016-). This four-storey tower house (ext. dims. 5.8m E–W; 5.4m N–S) is built of roughly coursed rubble and is densely overgrown with ivy. The S and W walls have collapsed and survive only to the first-floor level. The doorway was probably in the N wall close to the NE angle but this area is obscured by collapse. The partially collapsed spiral stairwell is in this angle and it accessed each floor level via a mural passage. There is a barrel vault over the inaccessible ground floor. In the E wall at first-floor level there is a plain, flat-headed ope and on the second floor, directly above it, there is a large fireplace. Also on this wall, at battlement level, are corbels supporting a chimney stack. This was almost certainly a residential tower probably dating to the post-Dissolution occupation of the abbey in the late 16th century.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 6 June 2012
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Cistercian monksunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.