TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Leper hospital

Portauns, County Limerick, Ireland

The record

Townland
Portauns
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.39277, -8.57914
SMR number
LI047-088----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

The field to the E of Spittle Br. on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map may be the location of a leper hospital. Described in the Urban Survey (Bradley et. al. 1989, 165) as following; 'Spital field, about one mile north the site of a leper hospital which may have been in charge of the Order of Knights Hospitallers (Lee 1965, 147-8; Lewis 1837, ii, 173)'. Duplicate site with LI047-105----.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 23 August 2021

References

Bradley, J., Halpin, A., and King, H.A. 1989 Urban archaeological survey - county Limerick (3 vols.). Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.

Gwynn, A. and Hadcock, R.N. 1970 (Reprint 1988) Medieval religious houses of Ireland. Dublin. Irish Academic Press.

Lee, G.A. 1966 The leper hospitals of Munster. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 10, 12-26.

Lewis, S. 1837 A topographical dictionary of Ireland, 2 vols. London. Lewis and Co.

Lee, G.A, 1965 Medieval Kilmallock. North Munster Antiquarian Journal No. 4, 145-54.

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Leper hospital in Limerick All County Limerick records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map