Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Font
Blackabbey, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Blackabbey
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.56758, -8.78484
- SMR number
- LI021-032017-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
According to Urban Survey of Limerick (Bradley et. al. 1989, 31) 'there is an early font under the tower' (i.e. of the Augustinian Black Abbey LI021-032006-). This is a bowl with some form of simple 'leaf' patterning on undersurface'.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 04 November 2019
References
Bradley, J., Halpin, A., and King, H.A. 1989 Urban archaeological survey - county Limerick (3 vols.). Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - Augustinian friarsunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Historic townunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.