LUDDENBEG, or LUDDON, a parish, in the barony
of CLASHWILLIAM, county of LIMERICK, and province
of MUNSTER, 5½ miles (S. E. by S.) from Limerick,
on the old road to Cahirconlish; containing 837 inhabitants.
It comprises 1183 statute acres of good land,
as applotted under the tithe act, of which about onehalf
is in tillage: the substratum consists chiefly of
a mixture of basalt and limestone. It is in the diocese
of Emly: the rectory is impropriate in Viscount
Southwell, and the vicarage forms part of the union
of Cahirconlish. The tithes amount to £124, of which
£70 is payable to the impropriator, and the remainder
to ‘the vicar. At Isertlaurence is a good glebe of
9 acres, and at Luddenbeg is another of 4½ acres. In
the R. C. divisions the parish forms part of the union
or district of Ballybricken, and has a small chapel at
Bohermore. At the foot of a gentle eminence are the
ruins of the old church, by some writers called an
abbey, on the walls of which are some figures rudely
sculptured in bas relief; and a little to the south stood
the castle of Luddenmore, a strong fortress, of which
scarcely a vestige can be traced.