Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Religious house - Franciscan Third Order Regular
Friarstown (clanwilliam By., Ballybricken Ed), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Friarstown (clanwilliam By., Ballybricken Ed)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Mainistimambratherbeg (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.54224, -8.53570
- SMR number
- LI023-030----
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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 gently undulating pasture. Rectangular structure (dims. internal 5.7m N-S; 13m E-W) defined by remains of sod-covered stone wall (Wth 0.8m; L 1.2m; ext. H 1.55m) of roughly coursed and mortared limestone at N, E and S; best preserved at W-end of S wall. Collapse along W-side of monument, S-end of E-wall and off-centre to W in S-wall. Interior is higher than exterior at W, where wall has collapsed inwards and is grassed over. Low earthen mound encloses wall to S and W-sides; gap off-centre to W of S-side. Interior covered by bracken and briars. Remains of friary of Franciscan Third Order Regular (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 270).
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 1 November 2013
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.