Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
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
- 52.57047, -9.06483
- SMR number
- LI019-026002-
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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
In pasture 150m SW of the Augustinian nunnery of Monasternagalliaghduff (LI019-026009-) and 40m NW of Gateway (LI019-026003-), in the grounds of the former Old Abbey House which survives 200m to NE, dovecote (LI019-026004-) orchard and fish pond (LI019-026006-) in field to N. Standing stone (LI019-026011-) 80m to E. Not depicted on any O.S. Maps. Site of an 'old enclosure' described as following; 'Two small old foot-bridges lead by a shaded lane-way from the kitchen to two fields, having a cross-branch of the stream to the east of the first, to which a way also leads past the west side of the garden by other bridges. The more southern field alone gives marks of an old enclosure. The southern field has traces of earthen mounds' (Wardell 1904, 63). No surface remains visible of this 'old enclosure' on Digital Globe orthophotos or Google Earth orthoimagery.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 14 July 2020
References
Wardell, J. 1904 The history and antiquities of St. Catherine's Old Abbey, Co. Limerick. The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland XIV, 41-64.
Nearby in the register
- Gatewayunder 1 mi
- Dovecoteunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tea houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.