Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hospital
Ballykeeffe, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballykeeffe
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LI013-137----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of a possible leper hospital in the townland of Ballykeeffe has not been identified. The Topographical Dictionary of Ireland recorded in 1837 that in the Parish of Mungret 'near the eastern boundary of the parish opposite to Ballincurra, are the ruins of a hermitage, afterwards a leper hospital' (Lewis 1837, 154; Lee 1966, 22-3).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 26 November 2021
References
Lewis, S. 1837 A topographical dictionary of Ireland, 2 vols. London. Lewis and Co.
Lee, G.A. 1966 The leper hospitals of Munster. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 10, 12-26.