What is recorded here

Indicated is the ruined gatehouse of Corcomroe Abbey in County Clare, where upper chambers collapsed soon after 1839 but two parallel stone walls still stand five metres apart. A plain doorway marks the west end, while narrow slit windows pierce the adjacent enclosure wall, suggesting a guarded threshold rather than a welcoming one. A porter may have sat inside, deciding who approached the abbey and who turned back empty-handed.

Immediately N of a roadway on the W line of the walled garden (CL003-029001-) marking the precincts of Corcomroe Abbey (CL003-029002-). A gatehouse, the upper parts of which collapsed soon after 1839 (Stalley 1987, 176). Two parallel mortared stone walls (Wth 0.7m; H 4m; L 9.2m) oriented E-W, 5m apart. There is a plain flat-headed doorway (Wth 1m) at the W end of the N wall. On the enclosure wall immediately to the N and S are two narrow slit windows. According to Stalley (ibid.) the medieval gatehouse was manned by a porter whose attitude to visitors was not necessarily as warm-hearted as it should have been. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Mary Tunney Date of upload: 21 April 2015 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 1/1986).

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