Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement deserted - medieval
Oldabbey, County Limerick, Ireland
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-
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
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
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tea houseunder 1 mi
- Fish-pondunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.