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Tag - Co. Limerick

A look at Abbeyfeale in the 1840s

ABBEYFEALE, a parish, in the union of Newcastle, barony of Glenquin, county of Limerick, and province of Munster, 10 miles (W. by S.) from Newcastle, on the mail-coach road from Limerick to Tralee, containing 5492 inhabitants, of whom 699 are in the village. This place obviously derives its name from a Cistercian abbey founded here, in 1188, by Brien O’Brien...