House

A row of modern bungalows with garden plots are located immediately N of Abbey Owney graveyard (LI014-014003-) wall. Archaeological trial trenching was undertaken in the field to the N of the modern graveyard extension in February 1992 by Celie O'Rahilly (Excavations 1992, 41), who opened two machine trenches, both of which yielded deposits of an archaeological nature and 17th century pottery sherds. In Cut 1, a Charles II copper farthing (1672-9), was recovered. The cuts were located on 2 of 3 ridges aligned north-south and it is possible that these may have been the site of the house (LI014-014006-) built by the Walsh family who acquired the lease on the Abbey lands in 1562 (Seymour 1907, 177). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien and Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 3 July 2017