Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Corrabul, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corrabul
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LI030-121----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of Corrabul church has not been identified. Church building depicted in 'Gharabud' (Corrabul) on the 1657 Down Survey map of Pubblebrian barony (Hib. Reg.), where it is shown standing close to the S boundary of Croom parish. Based on the Down Survey the church was located in fields to the N of a stream which marks the S boundary of Croom parish. An enclosure (LI030-030----) is located in roughly the same area where the church is marked on the 1657 Down Survey map.
Westropp (1904-5, 380) recorded the following details on Corrabul; 'Garabul and Charabud, 1657 (Petty, 69 ; D.S.(B). 21). These maps show a large ruined church with doors in the west and south walls. Killoge an Imerish, at Carabud (Limerick Atlas of Trustees, 1688-1703, map 23). Site - Is forgotten in the townland'. A ringfort (LI030-030----) is located in the area where the medieval church is depicted on the 17th century Down Survey map of Pubblebrien Barony (Hib. Reg.).
Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 9 December 2020
References
Westropp, T.J. 1904-5 A survey of the ancient churches of Co. Limerick. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 25C, 327-479.
Hibernia Regnum: A set of 214 barony maps of Ireland dating to the period AD 1655-59. The original parish maps have been lost but the Hibernia Regnum maps are preserved in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris (Goblet 1932, v-x). Photographic facsimiles of these maps were published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton in 1908.