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Settlement deserted - medieval

Oldabbey, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Settlement deserted - medieval, Oldabbey, County Limerick, 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
Oldabbey
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.57334, -9.06561
SMR number
LI019-026001-

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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (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

Possible medieval settlement earthworks associated with 13th century Augustinian nunnery (LI019-026009-) which are visible on oblique aerial photographs taken 20/07/1968 (CUCAP AVS097-8). A series of linear earthworks forming a series of terraces indicative of strip lynchets running across the fields are visible to the N and NW of the nunnery on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-13. Possible medieval settlement and cultivation earthworks associated with medieval settlement and farming belonging to the Augustinian Nunnery.

See attached aerial photographs taken 1968 showing earthworks in field to the N and NW of the Augustinian nunnery.

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 14 July 2020

References

CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com

Nearby in the register

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

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