Historic SiteCounty LimerickOPW Heritage Ireland4.6
Free for everyone; an open-air monument with no staff, tickets or booking. No membership card is needed.
The Trust's page does not say how parking is charged.
No car park at the priory. Limerick City and County Council names King's Castle Car Park off Sheares Street as the start of the Kilmallock Looped Walk, without a tariff. From it walk to Sarsfield Street, take the lane beside Priory Court (a right of way through a private car park) and cross the footbridge over the Loobagh to the priory, about 300 m. No bus service is named.
Driving pin: King's Castle Car Park, 246 m south-west of OPW's own pin on the ruins.
Across the River Loobagh from the walled town of Kilmallock, which between the 13th and 17th centuries was second only to Limerick in the region, stand the ruins of the Dominican priory of St Saviour. The friars bought the land in 1291, were ejected by the Bishop of Limerick, who had their first house levelled, and re-established themselves here across the river; they stayed until the suppression of 1541. The 13th-century church gained a crossing tower, a south aisle and a transept in the 14th and 15th centuries, and its chancel is lit by a great graduated five-light east window, which reviewers single out, with a row of six twin-light windows along the south wall. Look for the six-bay sedilia, a tomb niche carved with heads and nail-head ornament, the transept's curvilinear tracery and corbels carved with faces. Reviewers love the water-meadow setting by the stream; park in the town and follow the lane and footbridge over the Loobagh, on the route of the council's Kilmallock Looped Walk.
An unguided open-air national monument in OPW's care with no staff and no facilities. OPW warns that care and caution should be kept throughout a visit to its unguided sites.
A lane, a timber footbridge and a field path; a roofless ruin with uneven floors, not suitable for wheelchairs. No toilets; cafes on the main street.
The Collegiate Church of SS Peter and Paul, a separate national monument inside the town walls, is about 420 m away on foot.
Photo: Kilmallock Priory from the south-west across the Loobagh footbridge, its tall crossing tower between the nave gable and the transept window. Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kilmallock_Priory_SW_2007_08_08.jpg. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0. Resized and cropped for display; derivatives retain the source licence.
No reviews yet
No reviews yet. Be the first to share your experience!
Dog access not confirmed
7 km, easy, free; starts and ends at King's Castle Car Park and follows the River Loobagh and the town walls past King's Castle, the Dominican Priory, Blossom Gate and the Collegiate Church.
