Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 16th century
Abington, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Abington
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.63361, -8.42100
- SMR number
- LI014-014012-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A row of modern bungalows with garden plots are located immediately N of Abbey Owney graveyard (LI014-014003-) wall. Archaeological trial trenching was undertaken in the field to the N of the modern graveyard extension in February 1992 by Celie O'Rahilly (Excavations 1992, 41), who opened two machine trenches, both of which yielded deposits of an archaeological nature and 17th century pottery sherds. In Cut 1, a Charles II copper farthing (1672-9), was recovered. The cuts were located on 2 of 3 ridges aligned north-south and it is possible that these may have been the site of the house (LI014-014006-) built by the Walsh family who acquired the lease on the Abbey lands in 1562 (Seymour 1907, 177).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien and Matt Kelleher
Date of upload: 3 July 2017
References
O'Rahilly, C. 1993 ‘Abbey Owney', Abington. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1992: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 41. Bray. Wordwell.
Seymour, Rev. St. J. 1907 Abbey Owney, County Limerick. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 37, 165-80, 360-73.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Mausoleumunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.