Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fish-pond
Oldabbey, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oldabbey
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.57143, -9.06375
- SMR number
- LI019-026006-
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
In pasture 40m W of the Augustinian nunnery of Monasternagalliaghduff (LI019-026009-) and immediately E of the 'Summer House' (LI019-026005-). Depicted on the 1840 OS 6-inch map as a rectangular-shaped pond (approx. L 40m; Wth 10m) located at the S end of the formal garden of Old Abbey House. Described by T. J. Westropp as, ‘A most picturesque old fish-pond, shadowed by fine yews and lime trees, extends along the foot of the modern garden from near the “cellars”. It possibly dates from monastic times’ (Wardell 1904, 64). Google Earth Orthoimage taken 08/04/2015 shows the area heavily overgrown.
See attached location map showing fish-pond labelled C and Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 13 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
- Designed landscape - tea houseunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian nunsunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.