Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
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
- 52.57029, -9.06360
- SMR number
- LI019-026011-
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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, 90m SW of the Augustinian nunnery of Monasternagalliaghduff (LI019-026009-) and 45m E of the dovecote (LI019-026004-), in the formal grounds of the Old Abbey House ruins which stand 170m to N. Not depicted on any OS maps. Possible standing stone described by Westropp as following; ‘In the field next to the Pigeon House [LI019-026004-] is a stone 3 feet 6 inches [1m] high and three feet [0.9m] by two feet [0.6m] wide’. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 08/04/2015.
See attached location map
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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.