Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Abbeyfeale West, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Abbeyfeale West
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- G. Yd. (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.38516, -9.30189
- SMR number
- LI042-012002-
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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)
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In Abbeyfeale town, on S side of Main Street. Rectangular graveyard (c. 50m E-W; c. 30m N-S) bounded to S by houses. and elsewhere by stone wall; entrance near W end of S side. Just inside gate is neo-classical limestone chest tomb dated to 1830s; there are five further chest tombs along E wall and two near centre overgrown by sycamores. Otherwise filled with 19th and 20th century grave plots, the earliest headstones noted dating to 1820s. No visible surface trace of church/abbey which formerly stood here (LI042-012001-).
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.