Blackabbey

106 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blackabbey, from 3 m² to 43,760 m² (4.38 ha, 10.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Adare Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Limerick · 86 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Village Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Adare Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Limerick · 13 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Open Space and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Adare Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Limerick · 11 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Education and Community (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Adare Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Limerick · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Special Control Area (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Adare Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Limerick · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Adare Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Limerick · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N3.4Utilities (Other gas and electricity uses)
  Adare Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Limerick · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Semi-Natural Open Space (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Adare Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Limerick · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Adare Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Limerick · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 31 Jul 2026N/a

  a rear extension to the existing house and an attached domestic garage and boiler house

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2660879

• 31 Mar 2026Conditional

  an extension to the existing Garage at the rear of his dwelling Including widening the existing Garage Door

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660367

• 28 Mar 2026N/a

  the change of use of an apartment to be used for short-term letting purposes

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660347

• 9 Mar 2026Conditional

  elevational changes to include changing a door to a window, creating a gable on the porch roof, to change a window to a door on the rear elevation and install new doors and windows throughout the dwelling and all associated works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660268

• 21 Feb 2026Refused

  construction of extensions to their existing premises to include (a) Enclosing Existing Ground Floor storage area to serve existing supermarket (b)Ground floor office / commercial unit with independent access (c) 3 No. First Floor apartments with existing connections to all existing public utility services and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660185

• 28 Jan 2026Conditional

  subdividing existing shop into two separate ground floor commercial units and material alterations to existing floor area along with all associated works. The Building is a protected structure, RPS Reg No. 874 and in the NIAH (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) Schedule, Ref No 21824041

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660076

• 7 Nov 2025N/a

  construction of extensions to the existing premises to include (a) Ground Floor enclosed storage area to serve existing supermarket (b) Ground floor office / commercial unit with independent access (c) 3 No. First Floor apartments with existing connections to all existing public utility services and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2561145

• 20 Oct 2025Conditional

  the demolition of an existing single-storey dwelling and the construction of a two-storey replacement dwelling, and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2561061

• 12 Sept 2024Refused

  an extension to the existing garage at the rear of his dwelling house incorporating 2 additional overhead doors adjacent to the existing garage door with direct access to Abbey View Estate access roadway

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460909

• 27 Aug 2024Conditional

  the development that will consist of: the construction of a new single storey extension to the rear and side of the existing house and the construction of a new single storey extension to the front of the existing storage shed and all associated site works above and below ground

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460851

• 18 May 2023Conditional

  change of design of conversion of existing living accommodation to 2no. apartments from that previously approved under planning no.22/609 and addition of ground floor & first floor rear extensions

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360329

• 22 Feb 2023Conditional

  the installation of a 0.50m x 0.87m x 1.62m (LxWxH) above ground enclosure, to house a new natural gas DRI (District Regulating Installation) and a 3m high 'lamp post' style relief vent stack with all ancillary services and associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 23108

• 22 Dec 2022Conditional

  the construction of a sun room to the side of the house

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 221388

• 20 Oct 2022Conditional

  the construction of an extension to the side of the dwelling house, with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 221129

• 30 Aug 2022Conditional

  an extension to the dwelling unit at the rear to increase the accommodation from a single bedroom to a two bedroom dwelling, including bathroom and all ancillary services

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 22944

• 26 Aug 2022Conditional

  extension & open canopy to the rear of the existing shop, change of use of a former veterinary clinic to a shop and use of existing outside space as sit down area with canopy, all together with ancillary site works. The building is a protected structure. Ref No. M21M(8) and on the NIAH(National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) Schedule, Ref No: 21824041

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 22932

• 10 Aug 2022Conditional

  the removal of roof over existing garage to side of dwelling house and planning permission for the construction of new roof over existing garage, elevational alterations and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 22877

• 31 May 2022Conditional

  the conversion of existing living accommodation to 2no. apartments

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 22609

• 13 Jan 2022Conditional

  change of use of an existing side residential entrance to agricultural/residential to allow access to lands to facilitate third party agricultural incidental use to visit the land on foot, jeep or car and/or for small agricultural equipment in connection with lands maintenance but not for passage of bulk deliveries to the lands. Planning permission is also sought for a new designated residential access, entrance gates, improvements to proposed access, and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2224

• 29 Oct 2021Conditional

  construction of rear single storey extension and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 211515

• 29 Oct 2021Conditional

  demolition of single storey rear structure and convert 2 no retail units to one single unit and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 211514

• 21 Sept 2021Conditional

  construction of an extension to the front of the dwelling including a pitched roof over existing garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211313

• 9 Jul 2021Conditional

  alterations, renovations and extensions to a dwelling house

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21977

• 28 Apr 2021Conditional

  the conversion of existing garage to a utility/playroom with French doors to front elevation and all associated works

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21554

• 22 Mar 2021Conditional

  a part two-storey, part single-storey extension to the rear of an existing terraced two-storey house, replacement of PVC windows on front elevation with traditional timber sash windows and replacement of front door and garage doors on front elevation. Works to include the demolition of existing two-storey and single-storey extensions and the single storey shed to the rear and alterations to the internal layout and rear of the existing house and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21341

The 25 most recent of 42 applications.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165

Recorded monuments

• LI021-032006 Religious house - Augustinian friars
  Description

  14th century Augustinian Friary described in the Urban Survey of County Limerick (Bradley et. al. 1989, 16-31) as following; 'This was founded by John FitzThomas FitzGerald, 1st earl of Kildare, before 1316 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 295), and it was endowed with properties in the town. The monastery was suppressed in 1539-40 but there are indications that the friars managed to stay on until c. 1581 (ibid.). The friary is situated on low-lying ground on the south bank of the river Maigue just below Adare bridge and it is now used as the Church of Ireland parish church. The monastic complex was restored by the earl of Dunraven in the last century and consequently the buildings are very well preserved. The complex consists of a church of early fourteenth century date, with a later south aisle and crossing tower. To the north of the church are cloisters with surrounding buildings of which the north range is intact but much of the east and west ranges are missing. At the north-east is the gatehouse, and further north again are remains of the extended east range. The Church This consists of a nave and chancel with a later crossing tower and a south aisle which is probably a late medieval building. The east and west gables of the nave and choir are c. 10.5m high; the east and west gables of the aisle are c. 6.5m high. A low (c. 50cms) basal batter occurs on the north wall of the nave and chancel and on the south walls of the chancel and aisle while the east walls of the chancel and aisle have a partly battered, plinth topped by a filleted roll moulding. The east wall of the chancel and the south wall of the aisle have set-back buttresses, with a plinth, similar to the east wall, at each angle; the west wall of the nave has angle buttresses without a plinth. The walls are plastered internally. The east wall of the chancel has a large five light window with intersecting tracery and a pointed rear arch with hollow chamfered limestone jambs. Externally the reveals have two engaged filleted shafts with rounded moulded capitals and there is a pointed hood mould. The window is badly cut and slightly skewed off the vertical: The south wall has four windows, each with intersecting tracery and pointed rear arches with hollow chamfered limestone jambs. That to the east end is a two-light, the others are three light windows although the west light of the western window is blocked by the crossing tower. Below these, at ground floor level, are a piscina and a three-bay sedilia between the piers of the crossing tower. 'The mouldings of the piscina and sedilia at the east end are identical, both have pointed trefoild headed arches with three-roll mouldings of which the central one is filleted, rising from round shafts with round, moulded capitals and bases. The sedilia also has a hood mould of two rolls, the outer one is filleted, which the piscina does not have. The other sedilia, between the tower piers, has pointed arches with chamfered jambs of two orders rising from polygonal shafts with polygonal bases and moulded capitals. The north wall has two conjoined wall tombs at the east end. Both have large three centred recesses with double hollow chamfered jambs of limestone and pyramidal basal stops above which is an ogee-headed canopy with foliate finial, flanked by buttress-shafts with crocketed finials. An identical tomb occurs in the north wall of the nave, just west of the tower while another tomb in the south wall of the south aisle, at the east end, is of similar style although its recess is round arched and the finial of its canopy is of more elaborate foliate character. The top of the buttress shafts are plain (possibly unfinished). All tombs have plain limestone slabs and none is inscribed or decorated. West of these conjoined tombs is a round headed doorway with chamfered limestone jambs in two orders and a pointed rear arch with chamfered jambs, which communicated originally with the east range, but now with the modern vestry. The door itself is supposed to have been removed from the parish church of St. Nicholas. Above the door is a blocked rectangular window with chamfered limestone jambs, apparently part of a squint and further west is another taller blocked rectangular window with chamfered limestone jambs which apparently: 'opened into a cavity in the thickness of the wall which would appear to have communicated with a door between the cloisters and sacristy. The cloister wall appears to have been breached at this point and repaired'. Within the piers of the tower is a pointed door with chamfered limestone jambs of two orders and segmental rear arch with chamfered limestone jambs leading from the cloister to the church. The south wall of the NAVE consists of an arcade of three [originally four--the two east arches and intervening pier were removed and the space is now spanned by a single large arch] tall (c. 5.5m) pointed arches communicating with the south aisle. The eastern respond of the east arch has chamfered limestone corners which are not on the other piers. The upper 2.5m of the west gable appears to be rebuilt and there are angle buttresses c. 5m high at each end externally. The west door is pointed, c. 2.5m high with chamfered limestone jambs of two orders with pyramidal stops (clearly contemporary with doors in cloister) and segmental rear arches with hollow chamfered limestone jambs. Above the door externally is a row of three corbels at a height of c. 4m, and a string course at a height of 4.5m. Above this is a triple light window with intersecting tracery and pointed rear arch with hollow chamfered limestone jambs with pyramidal/conical basal stops and sloping sill. The north wall is featureless apart from the wall tomb at the east end and above this, immediately west of the tower, is a twin-light pointed trefoil headed window with chamfered limestone jambs and segmental rear arch (partly blocked by the tower) with hollow chamfered limestone jambs and pyramidal stops. The east gable of the SOUTH AISLE is c. 10m high with a plinth at the base and a decorative cornice at 5.75m above ground and a set-back buttress at the SE angle externally. The lower 1.7m of masonry above ground is ashlar with rubble above. The east window is a large four-light window with intersecting tracery (the mullions have pyramidal stops), a pointed hood moulding with foliate stops and a pointed rear arch which has a limestone soffit arch of polygonal section, each face with hollow chamfering, springing from polygonal moulded capitals held by angels. The south wall is 6.5m with basal batter c. 50cms high, a decorative cornice at 5.75m above ground, and set-back buttresses at each end. There are two triple-light windows with intersecting tracery (the mullions having pyramidal stops) and pointed rear arches with soffit arches of chamfered limestone. Near the west end is a large modern pointed door with modern porch outside. The west wall has twin-light window with flamboyant tracery in chamfered limestone (the mullions having pyramidal stops) and a large splayed embrasure with pointed rear arch in dressed limestone slabs with soffit arch of chamfered limestone. The crossing TOWER is roughly square with six floors, a wall-walk and stepped battlements, c. 9.5m in overall height. The masonry is coursed limestone rubble with dressed limestone quoins. The tower was clearly inserted between nave and chancel and rises on four rectangular piers linked by tall (c. 5.5m) pointed arches with chamfered limestone quoins; over the crossing is a quadripartite vault with chamfered limestone ribs. The first floor was reached from the south ambulatory of the cloister at 1st floor level; a flat lintelled door in the north wall of the church, and a short curved stairs, leads to a flat-lintelled door with segmental relieving arch in the north wall of the tower. The first floor chamber is almost square, 3.3m N/S and 3.2m E/W internally, which leaves a space c. 2m wide between the walls of t

• LI021-032008 Religious house - Trinitarians
  Description

  Trinitarian abbey in the town of Adare described in the Urban Survey of Limerick (Bradley et. al. 1989, 36-9) as following: 'This monastery appears to have been founded by Geoffrey de Marisco before 1226 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 217). In the taxation of 1302-6 it was valued at 40s. It was dissolved in 1539 and in 1595 it was granted to Sir Henry Wallop (ibid.). In 1811 it was reconstructed by the earl of Dunraven for use as the Roman Catholic parish church. The surviving remains consist of parts of the south wall of the church, a crossing tower and parts of the N range of claustral buildings. These have been greatly modified; most of the doors and windows are modern and the masonry is generally roughly coursed limestone rubble. There is a refurbished dovecot at the extreme north west corner of the church grounds. The Church This may have been a cruciform building with crossing tower although the existence of a south transept is not certain (Hewson 1897-1900, 30). The north wall has been removed and the modern Catholic church has been built onto the north side of the medieval nave and chancel. The latter now serve as a south aisle for the modern church. Part of the south wall appears to be the only original part of the medieval building and this contains the only original window which is a cusped twin-light pointed window with elongated quatrefoil above the lights. Below the window there is a contemporary ogee-headed piscina. Three other recesses in this wall hold a round arched recess, a modern twin-light window and the modern doorway. According to Hewson (1897-190, 30) the original west wall of the nave stood c.3.Sm east of the present west wall and contained a triple light window with intersecting tracery. He also noted that the south wall had stepped battlements with projecting dripstones but these were removed and replaced in the 19th century. Hewson (ibid, 29) states that the east window of the chancel was 'of three lights … of the early pointed type'. The east wall stood 50cm west of the present east wall. The rectangular crossing tower consists of one floor and wall-walk above the crossing with a projecting turret on the south east. The tower rises on large plain rectangular piers and is covered by a quadripartite vault. Tall pointed arches, c.7.5m high, open to the east and west, and c. 6.5m high on the north and south. The south arch is blocked and has a twin-light window similar to that in the south wall of the nave. The main chamber of the tower is approached via a spiral stairs in the north-west pier. It is lit by a tall rectangular window and a splayed rectangular loop in the north wall. There is an ogee-headed window and a loop in the west wall, a rectangular window with window seats in the south wall and a rectangular window and loop in the east wall. Rectangular doorways at the south ends of the east and west walls give access to spiral stairs descending to mural chambers with pointed vaults in' the east and west walls just below the level of the vault. The spiral stairs descending to the mural chamber on the east also communicates with a small chamber in the projecting turret on the south east angle. This rectangular room is lit by a splayed rectangular loop in the south wall: it also has a garderobe and a door leading to another chamber above. This room is lit by two splayed loops in the south wall and one each in the east and north walls. The battlemented wall walk of the tower is reached via mural stairs in the north wall and the tower has raised turrets at each angle. The Cloister Dunraven's plan (fig. 7) appears to indicate that part of the north and east ranges survived but the building of the modern church has destroyed the east range. The north and south walls of the north range seem to be incorporated into the modern school buildings with a small tower at the east end and a larger tower at the west end of the range. The east tower is now of two floors although it may have had three floors originally as there is a row of corbels above traces of a vault over the ground floor. The original stairs was in the west wall and the first floor has a barrel vault with wattle centering. The west tower has three floors with a possible loft above, but it is greatly altered internally. The first floor had two rooms with pointed vaults and there are small wall chambers between the ground and first floor and between the first and second levels. The second floor has a large single chamber lit by a single-light rectangular window with. segmental rear arch and wattle centering in the south wall, and by an ogee headed window in the north wall'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 04 November 2019

• LI021-032012 Dovecote
  Description

  According to the Urban Survey of Limerick (Bradley et. al. 1989, 37) 'There is a refurbished dovecot at the extreme north west corner of the church (LI021-032008-) grounds'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 04 November 2019 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

• LI021-032017 Font
  Description

  According to Urban Survey of Limerick (Bradley et. al. 1989, 31) 'there is an early font under the tower' (i.e. of the Augustinian Black Abbey LI021-032006-). This is a bowl with some form of simple 'leaf' patterning on undersurface'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 04 November 2019

• LI021-032019 Burial
  Description

  An account of this burial was described by Cahill and Sikora (2011 vol. 2, 492) was described as following; 'In September 1995, remains were discovered on the grounds of the convent school of the Holy Trinity Church at Blackabbey townland, Adare, Co. Limerick. The school was undergoing renovation, which involved the removal of the flagstone surface of the yard. The remains were found immediately beneath the surface of the yard in a shallow pit measuring approximately 1m square. The surrounding soil is described as yellow clay. The site was reported to the National Museum and was visited on its behalf by Larry Walsh, curator of Limerick Museum. According to Walsh, the medieval Trinitarian abbey (LI021-032008-) was restored by the earl of Dunraven in 1811 and enlarged in 1852. Another portion of the abbey ruin was converted into a convent for the Sisters of Mercy in 1854, and in 1869 a chapel and infants' school were added. According to Walsh, the bones were mainly limb bones and appeared to be redeposited burials, which had been disturbed by the mid-nineteenth-century building work. The remains were reinterred locally'. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 21 August 2012

• LI021-032020 Earthwork
  Description

  In pasture on a slight N-facing slope, with good views in all directions. The earthworks and property plots are located within the historic medieval town of Adare (LI021-032001-). They are to the W, SW and S of the Augustinian Abbey (LI021-032006-) and extend from the banks of the River Maigue in the N, to the High Street (N21) in the E and to the rear of the Dunraven Arms Hotel in the S. The multiple field enclosures are not illustrated on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map or later OSi maps. Inspected by the ASI in 2016 when an ESB trench had been dug across the field S of the Augustinian Friary (LI021-032006-). Earthworks were identified that were ‘probably related to medieval activity associated with either the friary or the medieval town’. The ESB trench (L 200m) had been dug and back filled linking an ESB pole in the field to the new entrance of Adare Manor on the N21. Artefacts were recovered ‘lying on the ground along the line of the backfilled trench’. Burnt bone was recovered from the trench surface 6m from the road. A small sherd of post-medieval stoneware and a larger sherd of medieval pottery ‘Adare Ware’ (Sarah McCutcheon pers. comm.) were retrieved on the field surface. The earthworks are visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 05/02/2009 and 14/02/2020. They are also visible on recent Lidar images taken of the town by TII (ext. diam. 300m N-S; 270m E-W) and comprise of a series of potential burgage plots (Wth 35m-40m N-S) extending from the old High Street to the W. It is not clear where the W town ditch was located, although it may be located at the terminus of the field enclosures or may lie further W. These earthworks represent the remains of burgage /property plots associated with the medieval town of Adare and is a duplicate record with LI021-032001- See attached Google Earth orthoimages and Lidar Image Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 21 August 2020

• LI021-153 Enclosure
  Description

  In low-lying and wet, level pasture with restricted views in all directions, 500m SW of the River Maigue. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Monument identified as a possible enclosure in the Adare Bypass Constraint Study in (Ref. 28/A/1, p. 38). Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as no surface remains visible. Monument is not visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. Area of possible monument is now incorporated into a housing development visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 14/02/2020. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 4 August 2020

Architectural heritage

• Blackabbey Creamery, creamery, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan single-storey former creamery, built c. 1900, comprising two-bay single-storey block to south with pitched roof and five-bay double-height half-hipped block to north having lean-to porch and external concrete staircase. Now in use as shop. Artificial slate roofs with circular-profile metal vents. Gablets to south block with timber bargeboards. Rendered walls with render quoins. Camber-headed openings to north block with painted brick block-and-start surrounds, concrete sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed openings to porch with replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed openings to south block with replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed opening to porch with recent timber panelled double-leaf doors and sidelights. Square-headed openings to gables of south block with recent timber panelled double-leaf doors. Square-headed opening to west gable, now infilled with concrete blocks. Remains of block to rear (west) incorporating square-profile red brick tapering chimneystack on square plinth with red brick cowl. Five-bay two-storey block with gabled porch attached via single-bay two-storey linking block to north. Pitched artificial slate roof, roughcast rendered walls and square-headed openings with replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed opening to porch with recent timber panelled half-glazed double-leaf doors. Rendered walls to south of site.

• Thornfield, manse, 1920–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built in 1937, with full-length single-bay flat-roofed recent extension to front (south) elevation and three-bay two-storey return to rear (north) and single-bay single-storey flat-roofed extension to west. Hipped slate roof with ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks and overhanging eaves with render eaves course. Rendered walls with render quoins. Camber-headed openings to first floor with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed openings to extension with uPVC windows. Square-headed openings to rear with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed opening to return, some with recent sash windows, some with recent uPVC windows. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door and sidelights. Rendered boundary wall with square-profile piers with render caps to entrance.

• Adare Methodist Church, church/chapel, 1870–1875 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted Methodist church, built in 1873, with three-bay nave, lower gabled chancel to west elevation and gable-fronted single-bay single-storey porch to south elevation. Pitched slate roof with cut limestone copings and carved limestone brackets to gables. Snecked limestone walls with cut limestone plinth course and dressed limestone quoins. Dressed limestone pointed arch plaque to east gable. Pointed arch openings with dressed limestone chamfered block-and-start surrounds and quarry glazed windows. Triple lancet openings to east gable with shared dressed limestone chamfered block-and-start surround having three quatrefoil openings above within circular chamfered surrounds, the whole having carved limestone hoodmoulding over. Square-headed opening to porch with dressed limestone chamfered surround, plinth blocks and timber battened double-leaf doors. Cut limestone boundary wall with cut limestone copings, cut limestone square-profile piers with caps and cast-iron gate to south.

• House, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached two-bay two-storey shop, built c. 1820, formerly in use as house, with render shopfront to ground floor front (south) elevation. Hipped and pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with render quoins. Square-headed openings to first floor with decorative render surrounds and replacement windows. Shopfront to ground floor comprising decorative render pilasters flanking openings, decorative console brackets, fascia and cornice. Square-headed openings with timber windows and glazed timber door. Square-headed door opening to west flanked by pilasters and having decorative consoles and cornice above and timber panelled door.

• Adare Garda Síochána Station, house, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached four-bay two-storey former house, built c. 1820, with integral carriage arch to ground floor front (south) elevation. Now in use as a garda station. Pitched slate roof with cut stone copings to gables and red brick chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls with render plinth. Square-headed openings with cut limestone sills, render surrounds and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door and cut limestone surround incorporating cornice. Segmental-headed carriage arch with render surround and recent timber battened double-leaf doors.

• House, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached two-bay two-storey former house, built c. 1820, with integral carriageway to ground floor front (south) elevation. Now in use as offices. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with render cornice dividing storeys. Square-headed openings with replacement sash windows and render surrounds, that to ground floor with bipartite window. Square-headed opening with timber panelled door, overlight and render surround. Square-headed carriageway with replacement timber battened door.

• House, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay two-storey former house, built c. 1820, now in use as shop. Pitched fishscale slate roof with rendered chimneystack and coping. Rendered walls with render quoins and plinth course. Square-headed openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, render surrounds and render label mouldings. Those to ground floor with internal cast-iron sill guards. Square-headed door opening with render surround, label moulding and timber panelled door.

• Vokes, house, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay two-storey house and shop, built c. 1820, with render shop front to ground floor front (south) elevation. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack and copings, cast-iron rainwater goods and render eaves course. Rendered walls with render quoins. Square-headed openings with replacement windows and render label mouldings. Shopfront comprising render pilasters with decorative consoles, cornice with raised lettering below. Square-headed openings with fixed timber windows and timber panelled half-glazed doors with overlights. Central square-headed opening with timber panelled double-leaf doors and overlight.

• Adare Courthouse, court house, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay two-storey courthouse, built in 1863, with cut stone external limestone staircase to north elevation. Pitched slate roof with cut limestone copings and brackets to gables and cut limestone chimneystacks and eaves course. Rubble limestone walls with cut limestone plinth and flush dressed quoins. Square-headed openings with dressed limestone block-and-start flush surrounds and timber sliding sash windows, bipartite arched one-over-one pane to first floor and one-over-one pane to ground floor. Those to ground floor with relieving arches over. Square-headed opening to north elevation with replacement window and dressed stone surround. Pointed arch openings to front (east) elevation and north elevation with dressed limestone surrounds, cut limestone steps, timber battened doors and overlights. Cut stone staircase to north with cut limestone banister wall having cut copings. Cut limestone curved boundary wall to north with cut stone copings and square-headed openings with timber battened doors.

• Demesne walls/gates/railings, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gateway, built c. 1840, comprising pair of square-profile cut limestone piers with pyramid caps and platbands. Decorative cast-iron double-leaf gates with fleur-de-lis motifs.

• Countess Dunraven Fountain, fountain, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding carved limestone monumental fountain, erected in 1855, set within cut limestone pentagon-profile basin with carved copings. Tapering four-sided obelisk style shaft surmounted by Celtic cross with carvings in relief and to the base. Plinth comprising projecting gables with trefoil and cross motifs and carved lettering in relief. Cast-iron spouts to three sides.

• Holy Trinity Catholic Church, monastery, church/chapel, 1220–1860 · National interest
  Description

  Freestanding Roman Catholic church, restored in 1811 and in 1852-53, incorporating fabric of an earlier abbey, built c. 1230. Comprising gable-fronted nineteenth-century nave with recessed lower gabled-fronted thirteenth-century nave to south having nineteenth-century gabled porch to south elevation. Square-profile two-stage tower rising from central section of south nave. Two-bay single-storey sacristy with pitched roof to north-east corner of north nave with three-bay two-storey pitched-roofed block attached to west. Gable-fronted chapel to east of north elevation. Pitched slate roofs with terracotta ridge crestings and dressed limestone copings, carved limestone cross finials to gables. Cut limestone battlemented parapet to south nave and to tower with carved limestone eaves course. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Snecked cut limestone walls to north nave, porch and gabled chapel, with cut limestone buttresses. Rubble limestone plinth wall to east elevation. Rubble limestone walls to south nave and tower, walls to tower with batter. Rubble stone buttress to south-west corner and south-east and north-east corners of nave. Rubble limestone walls to sacristy and cut limestone walls to block to west of sacristy. Pointed arch opening to west elevation of south nave with carved limestone Y-tracery, hoodmoulding and stained glass window. Carved limestone sill incorporating carved limestone pointed arch panel below having trefoil figure motif carved in relief. Pointed arch openings to south elevation with cut limestone surround, carved hoodmouldings and elaborate Y-tracery and stained glass windows. Round-headed openings to east bays of south elevation with dressed limestone surrounds and stained glass windows. Triple lancet openings to east elevation with carved limestone trefoil-headed surrounds and sill course, cut limestone relieving arches above and stained glass windows. Pointed arch openings to west and north elevations of north nave and to west elevation of chapel with elaborate carved limestone tracery incorporating trefoil and quatrefoil motifs and carved limestone hoodmoulding. That to west elevation having stained glass window, those to chapel and north elevation with quarry glazed coloured glass windows. Those to north elevation and chapel having cast-iron sill guards with decorative heads. Pointed arch opening to east elevation of north nave with elaborate carved limestone tracery incorporating trefoil and quatrefoil motifs, carved limestone hoodmoulding and sill course and stained glass window. Four trefoil-headed openings to sacristy with chamfered dressed limestone surrounds, quarry glazed windows and cast-iron sill guards with decorative heads. Trefoil-headed opening to block to west of sacristy with dressed limestone surround and fixed window. Arrow slit and square-headed openings to tower with cut limestone surrounds. Pointed arch door opening to porch with timber battened double-leaf door, chamfered carved limestone roll moulded surround and hoodmoulding with finial. Door flanked by trefoil recessed panels with carved hoodmouldings and stops. Pointed arch recessed panel above door with chamfered dressed limestone surround and carved trefoil motif in relief. Double font to interior of porch with carved canted basin on plinth with trefoil headed recesses above divided by carved column. Carved limestone benches to interior of porch. Pointed arch opening to interior of porch with timber battened double-leaf doors and dressed limestone surround. Pointed arch opening to west elevation of north nave with timber battened double-leaf doors having elaborate cast-iron strap hinges. Carved limestone surround incorporating flanking triple columns and roll mouldings. Dressed limestone gable above with decorative carved limestone copings with carved limestone floral motif stops. Shouldered square-headed door opening to sacristy with dressed limestone surround and timber battened door with cast-iron strap hinges. Pointed arch opening to block to west of sacristy with pointed arch timber battened half-glazed door and carved limestone hoodmoulding. Interior having exposed rubble stone walls. Pointed arch colonnade dividing nave aisles with carved limestone columns and capitals. Elaborate altar with carved marble altar table, brass screen behind and painted barrel vaulted ceiling above. Carved and rubble stone vaults within tower. Timber vaulted ceilings to aisles, trusses supported on carved limestone brackets. Carved marble pulpit with quatrefoil recessed panels and carved base. Carved limestone baptismal font behind cast-iron screen with painted lettering and cross and floral motifs. Carved timber gallery with cast-iron screen in front. Pointed arch opening to sacristy with timber battened door and dressed limestone chamfered surround. Cut limestone boundary walls with cut limestone copings. Dressed limestone square-profile piers with caps and cast-iron gates.

• Abbey Priory, school, 1850–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached gable-fronted two-storey former convent school, built in 1854, now in use as school. Attached to medieval abbey to south. With box-bay window to west elevation. Two-bay north elevation with lower single-bay single-storey block to east. Pitched slate roof with cut limestone copings, carved cross finial to west gable, cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble stone walls with cut limestone pilasters to corners and cut limestone stringcourse. Paired trefoil-headed openings to north elevation divided by mullions and transoms and having carved limestone surrounds. Trefoil-headed lancet openings to west elevation with stained glass windows and carved chamfered limestone surrounds. Trefoil opening to west gable with carved chamfered limestone surround. Square-headed openings to box bay window with fixed pane windows and carved limestone continuous sill course.

• Aviary/dovecote/pigeon house, 1350–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding circular-plan dovecote, rebuilt c. 1850, incorporating fabric of an earlier structure, erected c. 1350. Domed slate roof with cut stone eaves course. Rubble limestone walls. Camber-headed opening with cut stone voussoirs and cast-iron gate. Interior walls with square-headed recesses.

• Presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-storey presbytery, built c. 1840, comprising three-bay two-storey block with projecting bay to east, single-bay two-storey block to rear (north) and box bay window to ground floor of west elevation. Glazed porch to front of main block and west elevation of projecting bay. Half-hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves. Red brick chimneystacks and terracotta ridge tiles. Rubble stone walls with cut limestone quoins. Red brick walls to box bay window. Square-headed openings with cut limestone voussoirs, timber casement windows and replacement uPVC windows. Former opening to first floor, front elevation now with inset concrete sundial. Fixed pane timber windows to porch with square-headed opening having glazed timber door. Outbuildings to rear, one comprising single-storey block with lean-to to rear, pitched slate roof, rubble stone walls, square-headed openings with cut stone voussoirs and elliptical-arched opening with cut stone voussoirs and timber battened double-leaf doors. Rubble stone boundary walls with cut limestone square-profile piers to pedestrian entrance with carved caps.

• Dunraven Arms Hotel, hotel, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached ten-bay two-storey hotel, built c. 1790, with five-bay single-storey block to front (south) elevation, east bays. Two single-bay single-storey flat-roofed bowed porches to front elevation and lower four-bay two-storey block to west. Two-storey blocks to rear (north). Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Render cornice to flat-roofed block. Rendered walls. Square-headed openings, those to first floor replacement uPVC sash windows, those to porches bowed replacement two-over-two pane sliding sash windows, those to ground floor, tripartite two-over-two pane flanked by one-over-one pane. Square-headed door openings to porches with bowed timber panelled double-leaf doors. Multiple-bay single-storey with dormer attic outbuilding to north-east. Hipped slate roof with lean-to dormer windows and red brick chimneystacks. Rendered walls. Square-headed openings to dormer windows with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed openings to ground floor with replacement fittings. Rubble stone boundary wall surmounted by cast-iron railings.

• Milestone/milepost, 1770–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding triangular-profile milestone, erected c. 1780, with incised lettering. Bears inscription: 'Rathkeale 7 Miles / Limerick 8 Miles'.

• Saint Nicholas's Church (Adare), church/chapel, 1300–1870 · National interest
  Description

  Formerly freestanding gable-fronted Church of Ireland church, restored c. 1807 and c. 1860, incorporating fabric from Augustinian Abbey which dates to 1315. Complex comprises five-bay south nave elevation, double-height gable-fronted chapel to south elevation having gabled single-bay porch to south, single-storey gable-fronted vestry to north elevation. Square-profile two-stage tower to centre of nave. Pitched slate roof with cut limestone copings and carved brackets to gables. Cut stone crenellations and eaves course to tower. Rubble stone walls with cut stringcourse dividing stages to tower and to chapel. Cut stone corner buttresses and plinth course. Circular recessed panel to porch gable with carved surround and panel with cross motif in relief. Pointed arch openings to nave with carved Y-tracery, stained glass windows and cut limestone surrounds and voussoirs. Pointed arch openings to east windows to gable and chapel having carved Y-tracery, stained glass windows, carved roll moulded hoodmoulding with carved stops and cut stone voussoirs. Pointed arch openings to porch with carved hoodmouldings, quarry glazed windows, cut limestone voussoirs and chamfered surrounds. Pointed arch opening to west of chapel with elaborate carved tracery, quarry glazed windows, carved limestone surround and hoodmoulding. Poined arch opening to west with carved limestone Y-tracery and surround and stained glass window. Lancet openings to tower with cut limestone surrounds and louvres. Lancet opening to east of vestry with quarry glazed window, carved limestone surround and hoodmoulding. Pointed arch opening to north elevation of vestry with carved tracery forming pointed arch and trefoil openings with quarry glazed windows, carved limestone hoodmoulding and cut stone voussoirs. Pointed arch door opening to porch with stepped roll moulded carved limestone surround and hoodmoulding. Tiled threshold within leading to similar pointed arch opening with timber battened double-leaf door. Pointed arch door opening to west elevation with stepped carved limestone surround, cut limestone voussoirs, now blocked up. Pointed arch door opening to vestry with timber battened door, chamfered limestone surround and carved limestone hoodmoulding. Retains interior features such as carved marble font, carved timber seats (c. 1500), lectern and choir stalls, stained glass windows, carved oak doors, sixteenth-century Flemish pieta, seventeenth-century holy communion place, carved limestone and marble plaques, exposed timber ceiling and timber organ. Entrance to east with square-profile dressed limestone piers having trefoil-headed chamfered corners and gabled caps. Cast-iron double-leaf gates. Cast-iron railings to either side.

• Saint Nicholas's Church (Adare), mausoleum, 1825–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached mausoleum, dated 1826, comprising gable-fronted single-bay two-storey central bay flanked by single-bay single-storey bays. Pitched slate roof to central bay with pitched cut limestone roof to flanking bays. Carved eaves courses. Carved limestone pinnacles and copings to central bay. Cut limestone walls with carved plinth, and buttresses to corners of each bay, those to central bay rising to form projecting piers with carved panels and capitals, those to east rising above brackets with carved angel motifs. Carved limestone square-profile plaques to east and west elevations of central bay with carved surrounds and incised lettering, surround to west elevation incorporating skull and crossbones motif. Carved limestone coat of arms plaque to central bay, west elevation. Triple lancet openings to east elevation with carved hoodmouldings and imposts. Four-centred arched openings to each bay of west elevation and to central bay of east elevation with stepped carved limestone surrounds and hoodmouldings, those to west blocked, that to east with red brick reveals and cast-iron gate.

• Saint Nicholas's Church (Adare), abbey, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached gable-fronted double-height former abbey, originally built c. 1315 and restored c. 1814, with projecting single-bay two-storey flat-roofed block to north. Fifteenth-century cloister to south. Pitched slate roof with crenellated parapets to gables. Rubble stone walls with cut stone stringcourses. Square-headed panels to flat-roofed block east elevation with carved limestone heraldic motifs and surrounds. Lancet and square-headed openings with quarry glazed timber windows. Paired lancet openings to north elevation with quarry glazed timber windows. Pointed arch opening to flat-roofed block with replacement window. Elliptical-arched opening to ground floor of main block with cut stone voussoirs, now blocked. Camber-arched opening to main block, first floor with cut limestone surround, accessed by cut limestone external staircase. Square-headed opening to west with replacement door. Pointed arch opening to flat-roofed block, with cut stone surround and voussoirs. Cloister to south comprising corridors in square-profile, accessed via four-centred arch opening with carved roll moulded surround and label moulding with carved stops and carving to spandrels between. Rubble stone walls to corridors, internal arcaded walls with four-centred-arched openings having trefoil headed tracery and cut limestone voussoirs. Square-headed plaque to interior with incised lettering.

• Saint Nicholas's Church (Adare), school, 1810–1815 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay two-storey school, built in 1814, with projecting gable-fronted central bays to front (east) and rear (west). Pitched slate roofs with cut limestone copings, brackets eaves course and chimneystacks. Carved limestone finial to front gable. Rubble limestone walls with cut limestone quoins. Carved plaque to central front gable. Square-headed openings to flanking bays with cut limestone chamfered surrounds, sills and label mouldings. Bipartite arched four-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor, front elevation. Timber casement windows to ground floor. Four-centred arch opening to ground floor of central bay, set within pointed arch recess, with timber casement window and carved limestone hoodmoulding. Triple lancet arch openings to first floor of projecting bay with three-over-two pane timber sliding sash window flanked by two-over-two pane. Four-centred arched door opening to south elevation of projecting bay with timber panelled door, cut limestone surround and steps.

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Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_818 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Blackabbey with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Blackabbey · An Mhainistir Dhubh

Area

425,477 m² (42.55 ha, 105.14 acres)

Civil parish

Adare, and its townlands

Barony

Coshma

Electoral division

Adare South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Adare South electoral division: 2,225 people in 730 households; 72% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Adare, Curraghbeg, Islandea

Placenames

Blackabbey on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.