Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical site
Abbeyland, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Abbeyland
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Convent
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.62659, -7.39402
- SMR number
- WM006-059----
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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
Situated in an area of pasture-land. Religious House-Franciscan Friars (WM006-058----) 190m to NE. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as ‘convent’, adjoining the townland boundary between Abbeyland and Multyfarnham. The convent buildings depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map have been levelled, and no trace of any buildings survive.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 1 February 2017
Nearby in the register
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Franciscan friarsunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.