Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Leper hospital
Portauns, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Portauns
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Spittle Br.
- Latest-edition OS map
- Spital Br.
- Coordinates
- 52.39277, -8.57914
- SMR number
- LI047-105----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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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 LI047-088----.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 1 October 2019
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 Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.
Lewis, S. 1837 A topographical dictionary of Ireland, 2 vols. London. Lewis and Co.
Lee, G.A. 1966 The leper hospitals of Munster. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 10, 12-26.
Gwynn, A. and Hadcock, R.N. 1970 (Reprint 1988) Medieval religious houses of Ireland. Dublin. Irish Academic Press.
Lee, G.A, 1965 Medieval Kilmallock. North Munster Antiquarian Journal No. 4, 145-54.
Nearby in the register
- Leper hospitalunder 1 mi
- House - 17th/18th centuryunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.