Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement deserted - medieval
Coolbaun (coonagh By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolbaun (coonagh By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LI025-002001-
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of the medieval settlement depicted on the 1657 Down Survey map of Coonagh barony (NLI, MS 718) as a cluster of dwellings located between Coonagh Castle (LI025-002002-) and Castletown Church has not been identified. The deserted settlement appears to have been located in the fields to the E of the Cahernahallia River and Castletown Church (LI025-004001-).
In 1299, King Edward I granted a licence to Otho de Grandison, for a 'weekly market on Wednesday at his manor of Octonagh [Coonagh] in the county of Tipperary, Ireland, and of a yearly fair there for fifteen days, namely on the vigil the day and the morrow of St. Margaret the Virgin [July 19-21] and the 12 following days' (Cal. doc. Ire., 310).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 07 January 2019
References
Cal. doc. Ire. - Calendar of documents relating to Ireland 1171-1307, ed. H.S. Sweetman (5 vols., London, 1875-86).
NLI, MS 718 - National Library of Ireland, Parish maps with terriers, showing forfeited lands in County Limerick, commonly known as the "Down Survey", executed under the direction of Sir William Petty, 1657, and copied by Daniel O'Brien, 1786.