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Leper hospital

Portauns, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Leper hospital, Portauns, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (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 Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.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

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

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