Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Deer park
Bunratty East, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bunratty East
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.70614, -8.81108
- SMR number
- CL062-001011-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Sherlock (2011, 215), notes that Cardinal Rinuccini, who supported the Confederate army during the siege of 1646, wrote as follows: ‘I have no hesitation in asserting that Bunratty is the most beautiful spot I have ever seen. In Italy there is nothing like the palace and grounds of Lord Thomond, nothing like its ponds and park, with its three thousand head of deer.’ An irregularly shaped deerpark (265m N-S; 277m E-W) is indicated and named on the 1840 OS 6-inch map c. 800m N of the castle. Four modern dwellings occupy the E portion of the deerpark.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 14 October 2019
References
Sherlock, R. 2011 An introduction to the history and architecture of Bunratty Castle. In Stalley, R. (ed.) Limerick and south-west Ireland, medieval art and architecture, 202-218. British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions 34.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.