Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - medieval
Englishtown,limerick City, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Englishtown,limerick City
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.66882, -8.62495
- SMR number
- LI005-017168-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Medieval stone house known as the manor of the Chanter, located on the N side of Newgate Lane in Limerick City. In 1577 the English crown granted a 21 year lease to 'Hercules Raynsforde, gent.; of two water mills [LI005-017074-] now decayed, in one house, called the King's mills in the city of Lymericke, upon the bank of the Shenyne [Shannon], between Cordowerr [LI005-110----] on the west side and the manor of the chantor of the church [LI005-017015-] of the city on the other side, parcel of the queen's ancient inheritance' (Nicholls 1994, 403). O'Flaherty (2010, Fig. 3, 53) recorded the following details about the Chanter's House in Limerick City: 'Chanter's house, Newgate Lane N. Manor of the chanter 1577. Chanter's house 1663'.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 23 December 2019
References
Nicholls, K.W. (ed.) 1994 The Irish fiants of the Tudor sovereigns during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Philip & Mary, and Elizabeth I, 4 vols. Dublin. Éamonn de Búrca for Edmund Burke Publisher.
O'Flaherty, E. 2010 Irish Historic Towns Atlas, no. 21, Limerick. Dublin. Royal Irish Academy.
Nearby in the register
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.