Abbeyfarm

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Abbeyfarm, from 33 m² to 107,365 m² (10.74 ha, 26.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Kilmallock Local Area Plan 2019-2025, Limerick · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Education and Community Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Kilmallock Local Area Plan 2019-2025, Limerick · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Special Control Area (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Kilmallock Local Area Plan 2019-2025, Limerick · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Open Space and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Kilmallock Local Area Plan 2019-2025, Limerick · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Kilmallock Local Area Plan 2019-2025, Limerick · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 13 Mar 2018Conditional

  an extension to existing facility, including associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 18230

• 20 Apr 2017N/a

  for an extension to existing facility including associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 17345

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Abbeyfarm.

Recorded monuments

• LI047-022018 Religious house - Dominican friars
  Description

  National monument No. 212. Kilmallock Friary described in the Urban Survey (Bradley et. al. 1989, 162-4) as following: 'This friary was established in 1291 on land purchased from John Bluet, a burgess of Kilmallock. It was founded, however, with the consent of the bishop of Limerick who had the friars ejected and their house levelled (Sweetman 1875-86, iii, no. 967). After an inquiry was held into the affair the Dominicans were permitted to re-establish themselves on land across the river from the town. The friary was suppressed in 1541 when the jurors found that the 2-acre site contained a church cemetery, cloister, dormitory and other buildings (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 226). The remains consist of a thirteenth century nave and chancel church with an inserted fourteenth/fifteenth century crossing tower. The nave has a south aisle and there is a south transept with a western aisle which was added in the fourteenth century. To the north there is a sacristy and a north and east range around a cloister arcade. The masonry consists of coursed limestone. The chancel is lit from the east by a large graduated five-light pointed window with banded shafts and from the south by a row of six twin-light windows with switch-line tracery. There is a six-bay sedilia on the south wall and a cusped ogee-headed tomb niche with nail-head and carved heads on the north wall. The north wall of the nave had three windows (probably twin-light) and the west wall has a three-light window with switch-line tracery over a pointed door with segmental rear arch. The south wall is represented by footings. The transept has a large south window with curvilinear tracery (possibly inserted in the fifteenth century) and two twin-light windows in the east wall. Two large pointed arches open to the west aisle but the west wall is largely missing. The three floored tower is very narrow and much of the south and west walls are missing above the high pointed crossing. It would appear that the upper floors had single or twin-light pointed windows with rectangular hood moulds and the parapet was stepped. The sacristy was of two floors and was lit from the east at ground floor level by two rectangular windows and on the first floor by a narrow single-light pointed window. The north and east ranges were of two floors but are very ruined. Decorative details in the church include a wall niche in the transept with ball-flower designs and the soffit ribs of the crossing arches between the south transept and its western aisle rest on corbels with carved faces'. The Dominican friary is shown standing within a rectangular shaped precinct defined by a water filled ditch fed by the River Loobagh on a map of Kilmallock town dating from c. 1600 (TCD, MS 1209/62). Within this precinct there are a cluster of houses shown to the N of the friary with two watermills (LI047-022061/062-) standing on the E bank of the River Loobagh which probably belonged to the Dominicans (ibid.). The friary was connected to the walled town of Kilmallock (LI047-022----) via the Friar's Gate with a small bridge (LI047-022060-) traversing the River Loobagh. See attached plan of friary taken from the Urban Survey of Kilmallock Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 01 October 2019

• LI047-022060 Bridge
  Description

  No surface remains visible of bridge depicted on the a map of Kilmallock town dating from c. 1600 (TCD, MS 1209/62). On this map the bridge is shown spanning the River Loobagh to the SW of the Dominican Friary (LI047-022018-) and is connected to the walled town of Kilmallock (LI047-022----) via a road running through a gatehouse labelled on the town plan as 'The frier's gate'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 30 September 2019

• LI047-022061 Water mill - unclassified
  Description

  No surface remains visible of watermill depicted on a map of Kilmallock town dating from c. 1600 (TCD, MS 1209/62). On this map two watermills (LI047-022062-) in close proximity to each other are shown standing on the E bank of the River Loobagh to the W of the Dominican Friary (LI047-022018-). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 30 September 2019

• LI047-022062 Water mill - unclassified
  Description

  No surface remains visible of watermill depicted on a map of Kilmallock town dating from c. 1600 (TCD, MS 1209/62). On this map two watermills (LI047-022061-) in close proximity to each other are shown standing on the E bank of the River Loobagh to the W of the Dominican Friary (LI047-022018-). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 30 September 2019

• LI047-022067 Water mill - unclassified
  Description

  Watermill depicted on a map of Kilmallock town dating from c. 1600 (TCD, MS 1209/62). On this map a watermill is shown standing on the W bank of the River Loobagh to the NE of the NE corner of the walled town of Kilmallock (LI047-022----). Kilmallock Mill depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map is shown standing on the site of or in cose proximity to the watermill shown on the town map of Kilmallock dating from c. 1600. A second watermill (LI047-022069-) is shown on this map standing opposite on the E bank of the River Loobagh. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 30 September 2019

• LI047-022068 Water mill - unclassified
  Description

  No surface remains visible of watermill depicted on a map of Kilmallock town dating from c. 1600 (TCD, MS 1209/62). On this map two watermills (LI047-022067-) opposite one another, are shown standing on the River Loobagh to the NE of the walled town of Kilmallock (LI047-022----). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 30 September 2019

• LI047-080 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  The precise location of the Castle of Courteroddery in the townland of Abbeyfarm has not been identified. Westropp (1906-7, 190-1) recorded the following details about Courtneruddery; '1579 The White Knight's C[astle], manor and C[astle]. of Courteroddery, near Kilmallock, granted to T. Burgeate, with a mill, property of John oge FitzGibbon, the White Knight. 1586 C[astle]. named by Peyton (p. 23). 1587 Granted to G. Beston and Lau. Bostock (Carew, i., p. 450). 1590 Grant to Edm. FitzGibbon, the White Knight, of the site of the C[astle]. of Court Rudderye, near Kilmallock, "surrounded with a stone wall, the Court being ruinous," and the water-mill (Fi. 5517). 1617 Maur. Hurley, of Knocklong, settled the ruined C[astle]. of Court Inruddery, water-mill, little garden called Garrenruddery, &c. (Inq. Chan., Car. I., 189). 1655 Courtneruddery, an old ruinous C[astle], and waste mill [LI047-022068-] on the river Gleane outside the town walls [LI047-022006-], having the river to the west and the (Dominican) Abbey land [LI047-022018-] to south (C.S., p. 52)'. The 1659 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that 'Sir Morrish Hurly of Knockelong' was the owner of 'An old ruinous Castle called CourtenRuddery a waste Mill seate called Mullena Courtye and severall gardens mearing with ye river Gleene West; the Abby land South, the garden of John Fox east and ye meddow plott of Richard Creagh North' (Simington 1938, 194). Castellated building depicted on a map of Kilmallock town dating from c. 1600 (TCD, MS 1209/62). On this map a castle is depicted standing on the E bank of the River Loobagh opposite Kilmallock Mill (LI047-022067-) and a short distance S of a second watermill (LI047-022068-) also standing on the E bank of the river. This castle may have been known as 'Courtneruddery' described in the Urban Survey (Bradley 1989, 166) as following; 'The White Knights" Castle and manor with a stone wall. Situated on the river Gleane outside the walls with the river on the west and Abbey land (Dom.) south (Westropp 1906-7, 190-1). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 23 August 2021

Architectural heritage

• Coláiste Iósaef, convent/nunnery, 1930–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding seven-bay two-storey former convent, begun in 1931, with canted projecting end bays and gable-fronted portico to front (south) elevation. Two-storey extension to rear (north) and full-height portico to west elevation. Hipped slate roof having rendered chimneystacks with wrought-iron cross finials to projecting bays and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls having render plinth course and inscribed limestone plaques to front and west elevation. Square-headed openings with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and concrete sills. Those to ground floor having round-headed render surrounds. Round-headed openings to projecting bays, first floor with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and concrete sills. Square-headed opening to projecting bay, west elevation, ground floor having stained glass widow. Square-headed opening with quarry glazed overlight over timber panelled double-leaf doors with flanking quarry glazed sidelights. Flight of curved limestone steps to entrance. Pair of square-profile rendered piers with double-leaf cast-iron gates and rendered boundary walls to south-west.

• Bridge, 1290–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Four-arch humpback road bridge over the River Loobagh with overflow arch, built c. 1800,with fabric dating from the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Rubble limestone walls dressed to east and west elevations, dressed parapet walls. Cut limestone voussoirs to segmental-headed arches. V-cutwaters to east elevation. Cut limestone copings to parapet walls.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 10 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1002 (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 Abbeyfarm with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Abbeyfarm · Feirm na Mainistreach

Area

224,912 m² (22.49 ha, 55.58 acres)

Civil parish

St. Peters and St. Pauls, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmallock

Electoral division

Kilmallock, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilmallock electoral division: 2,389 people in 962 households; 65% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardkilmartin, Ardyoul, Ballycullane, Deebert, Glenfield, Kilmallock, Kilmallock Hill, Proonts

Placenames

Abbeyfarm 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.