Westropp — Ancient Churc/iea in Co. Li?nerick. 437 



496). The abbey was peopled with monks from Savignac, 1206 ; burned 

 in 1342;^ in 1550, by O'Carroll; and in 1647, by troops of Lord 

 Inchiquin, when it was stormed. The last abbot was John O'Mulrian, 

 1565, 69 and 94 (C.S.P.I.); "Uaicne, 1199 to 1287 ("Wars of Torlough) ; 

 Uaicne ui maolpiaTi, 1452 and 1585 (A.F.M.) ; Woney O'Mulrian, 

 1586 (Peyton, p. 253). Granted to the Walsh family.- Abbey Own- 

 thneybeg',2 1657 (j)^^^ (A), 29 ; Petty, 66). Fabric— This fine abbey 

 was levelled by certain vandals to build Abingdon House. There is 

 a sketch by Thomas Dyneley, e. 1680.* It was a noble cruciform 

 church, with lofty gables, and the usual heavy square tower at the 

 intersection. The south transept had a high triple window, with a 

 round light overhead, and had buttresses at the angles, and two pointed 

 windows in its west wall. To the north lay the domestic buildings of 

 which the Walshes' little chapel is recognisable. Dineley adds that 

 " the ruin is worthy the sight of the curious " ; at the west end was a 

 small unroofed chapel with the Walsh tomb, 1618 (still well preserved) ; 

 Dulamus Barry's tomb, 1633 (still extant), which stood in a chapel in 

 the north transept, "to the left as you went up to the altar of the 

 abbatial church." William Eiian's (Mulryan's) monument, 1632, was 

 to the right of the altar ; and to the left, a double recess with trefoil 

 arches and an ornamental hood, topped by a rose. I found the Walsh 

 chapel with two compartments (20 feet 4 inches by 19 feet 10 inches, 

 and 19^ feet by 14 feet; the walls, 16 feet by 3^ feet). The long 

 foundations of the church barely rose over the field, and some great 

 masses of masonry remained in the cemetery, which covers the site of 

 the east end of the building. The bridge has a tablet of EUice, widow 

 of Sir Edmond Walshe. Descriptions — Dineley, 1680, in E.S.A.I., 

 vol. vi., N.S., p. 278, derives the name as corrupt for ''Antony 

 Abbey." The monuments of Dulamus Barry, 1633; and Mac David 

 Barry, 1766, by J. Grene Barry, ib., xxi., p. 50 ; alsoP.M.D., vol. i., 

 p. 436. Lenihan's " Limerick," p. 717, for Walsh tomb. 



305. Cappanahonna, Ejlleen" (6). — Same. Site — A children's 

 burial-ground, near the dolmen of Tuamanirvore (W. C. Borlase, 

 " Dolmens of Ireland," vol. i., p. 46), and the Clare Eiver. 



^ Ann. Nenaght. 



- Peter Walsh, at his death in 1575, held the rectories of Woney, Karkinlish, 

 Ballynety, Rajordan, and Charyelley, in Limerick, and eight others in Carlow. 



^ Petty, Map 29, adds to the description that in 1655, " There is an abbey 

 part whereof is thatcht," in the Manor of Abbey Owthneybegg. 



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