placenamesArdpatrick
Ard Pádraig
The small civil parish includes the Mount Coote and Riversfield estates as well as the hilltop religious site associated with Ardpatrick.
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
- Ard Pádraig · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ardpatrick · English · main form
Place & story
Three townlands in the survey
The Ordnance Survey field-name account describes Ardpatrick parish through three townlands: Ardpatrick, Mount Coote and Riversfield. It records arable land and two principal residences, occupied by Chidley Coote and Thomas Weldon. This small civil-parish description differs in scale from the wider Catholic parish around the village. The notes distinguish the houses and cultivated estate landscape from the religious ruins on Ardpatrick Hill. [2]
Planting, water and estate boundaries
The survey describes an ornamental pond south of Mount Coote House and plantations scattered across the townland. At Riversfield, Thomas Weldon’s house had offices and an orchard, while trees lined the field boundaries. A river marked the western and southern edges of that townland; a road marked its northern boundary. These details preserve a working landscape of cultivation and planting alongside the more formal grounds around the houses. [2]
The surviving gate lodge at Mount Coote
Mount Coote’s gate lodge was built about 1820. Its long, low form has slate roofs with overhanging eaves, timber box windows and a timber porch, with carved brackets adding detail. Rusticated limestone piers support the entrance gates. The architectural inventory records that the principal Georgian house was demolished around 1960, giving the smaller lodge a particular role as surviving evidence of the former estate’s approach and architectural setting. [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ardpatrick. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ardpatrick parish: Ordnance Survey field-name notes, pp 108–111 · Ordnance Survey historical field-name records, Limerick Libraries Local Studies
- Mount Coote gate lodge:21904803 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.