What is recorded here

Grave Yard in County Limerick holds a medieval Dominican abbey at its north-west corner, surrounded by a rectangular stone boundary stretching nearly forty metres. The eastern edge marks the townland limit with Keale, suggesting the graveyard has long divided living neighbourhoods from dead ones. People may have walked past abbey ruins and buried ancestors within the same walls, blending worship, memory and daily life into one quiet place.

Medieval Dominican abbey ruins (LI056-042001-) forms NW corner of graveyard which consists of a rectangular-shaped area (approx. dims. 39m N-S x 48m E-W) enclosed by post-1700 stone wall. E boundary of graveyard forms townland boundary with Keale. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 31 July 2019

Medieval Christian burial ground associated with a Dominican abbey, dating to the late medieval period (13th–16th centuries). Its significance lies in its connection to monastic religious life and as a site of historical and archaeological interest for understanding medieval ecclesiastical architecture and burial practices.

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