placenamesAbington
Mainistir Uaithne
A modest church and its surviving administrative records preserve another view of Abington beyond the abbey ruins.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Mainistir Uaithne · Irish · main form · validated name
- Abington · English · main form
Place & story
The parish church in 1837
Lewis described Abington’s church as a small building without a tower or spire. The glebe-house stood on twenty acres and was then the residence of Thomas P. Le Fanu, Dean of Emly. Parochial schools were supported chiefly by the rector. His account records a working parish establishment alongside the remains of the earlier abbey. [2]
Vestry minutes and local accounts
The Representative Church Body Library’s Abington archive includes vestry minutes from 1811 to 1871 and cess books from 1823–1825 and 1824–1829. Later records include a register of vestrymen for 1870–1910 and a sequence of preacher’s books extending from 1873 to 1950. These are records of the Church of Ireland parish, rather than a census of everyone within the civil parish. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Limerick
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Barony
- Owneybeg
- Coordinates
- 52.64932, -8.40812
- Logainm ID
- 1495 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Abington. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Abington — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
- Abington (Emly), parish collection P.0006, list dated 12 January 2022 · Representative Church Body Library
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.