placenamesAbbeville
Baile an Phíopaire
In Abbeville townland near Lorrha, successive houses and a former barracks preserve contrasting forms of domestic and public architecture.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile an Phíopaire · Irish · main form · validated name
- Abbeville · English · main form
Place & story
An older house behind a new front
Abbeville House combines an early nineteenth-century front block with a much older rear range, possibly dating from the late seventeenth century. The three-storey frontage, dated around 1820 by the architectural inventory, rises above the earlier building. A loose stone inscribed 1773 adds another clue to the property’s development, although it cannot by itself date the whole house. [2]
Glazing and garden earthworks
The house’s elaborate entrance has clustered columns and a fanlight with radiating, cobweb-like glazing. Its front windows include round-headed openings and tripartite arrangements with small attached columns. Substantial limestone outbuildings stand to the southeast. The inventory also identifies earthworks of a former canal and gardens in front of the house, extending its historical interest beyond the principal rooms. [2]
Lackeen House and the castle landscape
Elsewhere in Abbeville townland, Lackeen House developed beside the bawn of Lackeen Castle. A five-bay house of around 1730 incorporates an older, seventeenth-century building with a substantial gable chimney. The architectural inventory records surviving sash windows and a panelled entrance with geometrical glazing. Its position beside the castle enclosure shows successive domestic buildings occupying the same local landscape over several centuries. [3]
A former barracks
A separate stone building in Abbeville was built around 1815 as a barracks and later became a public house. Its three-bay frontage, hipped roof and narrow openings in the side walls preserve the form of the earlier institution, despite replacement windows and a rear addition. The inventory records it as a former RIC barracks, reflecting its police use before its conversion. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Ormond Lower
- Civil parish
- Lorrha
- Coordinates
- 53.08718, -8.06534
- Mapped area
- 3.83 km²
- Logainm ID
- 46010 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Abbeville. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Abbeville House, NIAH 22400415 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Lackeen House, Abbeville, NIAH 22400414 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Former RIC barracks, Abbeville, NIAH 22400417 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.