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Religious house - Franciscan Third Order Regular

Friarstown (Clanwilliam By., Ballybricken ED), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Religious house - Franciscan Third Order Regular, Friarstown, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)

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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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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