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Ardpatrick

Location
(52°20′23″N, 8°31′44″W)
Ardpatrick
R 64 21
pre-1974 traditional (Republic of Ireland) Limerick
now Limerick
medieval St Patrick
  • Tessa Garton

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Feature Sets
Description

Long rectangular church, with low, ivy-covered walls, and antae at the W end. The stump of a round tower remains to the W of the church. The W wall and antae are built from squared sandstone, similar to the remains of the round tower. There are two large triangular corbels above the N door.

History

Said to have been founded by St Patrick. Burned in 1114.

Features

Exterior Features

Doorways

Windows

Comments/Opinions

No Romanesque sculpture. Crawford (1908) found the broken base of a font lying outside the E end of the church, with sockets for a large pillar in the centre and smaller ones at the corners (similar to the font in St Canice's Cathedral,Kilkenny).

Bibliography

G. L. Barrow, The Round Towers of Ireland, Dublin 1979, 140.

H. S. Crawford, 'Miscellanea: Ardpatrick, Co. Limerick', JRSAI, 38, 1908, 75.

A. Gwynn and R. N. Hadcock, Medieval Religious Houses, Ireland, London 1970, 29.

P. Harbison, Guide to the National and Historic Monuments of Ireland,Dublin 1992, 216.

H. G. Leask, Irish Churches and Monastic Buildings, Dundalk, 1955, I, 72.