Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Leper hospital
Palmer'S-Hill, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Palmer'S-Hill
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- TS061-177----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Lee (1966, 23) speculates that there was a medieval hospital in the townland of Palmer's-Hill, immediately N of Cashel. Placenames with 'Palmer' as an element are associated with leper hospitals (ibid., 20). The hospital may have been under the jurisdiction of the Hospitaller Order of St. Lazarus of Jersulem (ibid., 23). This hospital is unlocated within Palmer's-Hill townland.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Lee, G.A. 1966 The leper hospitals of Munster. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 10, 12-26.