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House - 17th century

Quin, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - 17th century, Quin, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Quin
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.81913, -8.86341
SMR number
CL042-027021-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a sharp W-facing slope between the entrance doorway to Quin Abbey (CL042-027002-) (c. 8m to the E) and midway between it and the footbridge leading to St. Finghin's Church (CL042-027003-). Only the complete S gable of the house remains (L 7.9m), all other walls are completely removed to ground level. The internal face has a large central fireplace (opening Wth 1.91m; H 1.31m) with a correspondingly wide chimneybreast narrowing in a stepped fashion as it rises. The fireplace and some of the chimneybreast have very recently been restored. A cupboard (Wth 0.5m; H 0.56m; D 0.43m) is immediately beside the fireplace to the W. The roof was steeply pitched and there are 2 small square windows in what would have been a gabled attic space. The wall is built of roughly coursed limestone becoming uncoursed towards the top. Just a few well-cut quoins remain externally at the W end. These are cut at a wider angle than 90 degrees implying that the W wall was angled away from the building. The house forms part of the N boundary of the graveyard and is likely to have been a guesthouse associated with the friary.

The following images have been uploaded:
CL042-027021-_01.jpg View of remaining S gable from N.
CL042-027021-_02.jpg View of gable from S.
CL042-027021-_03.jpg View of chimney from N.
CL042-027021-_04.jpg View of remaining qoinstones.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 30 May 2018

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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