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Country house

Moyge, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Country house, Moyge, County Cork, 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
Moyge
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Moyge Ho (1936)
Coordinates
52.28868, -8.77356
SMR number
CO007-095----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Ruined remains of 1-storey multiperiod house. Entrance front, internal dividing walls, and part of rear elevation, built attached to and between two earlier gables. Entrance front (E) of 5 bays, four stone steps lead up to central round-headed door ope. Rectangular window opes with stone lintels and 18th century moulded stone sills; window at S end partially blocked by inserted wall. Steeply pitched S gable was internal wall of 17th-century house: projecting chimney stack on S side has large ground-floor fireplace (Wth 1.52m), dressed ashlar limestone surround (Wth 0.41m) with chamfered edge, remains of brick-domed bread oven on W side with two flues; narrow brick-arched fireplace on 1st floor. North side of S gable contains small fireplace in shallow projection. Central (blocked) window at ground-floor level in N gable, inserted into internally projecting fireplace. Interior divided by a central hallway (Wth 4.04m), slightly projecting to rear, with rooms (c. 5.5m sq.) on either side; corner fireplace in N room; remains of short projection to rear on N side; later addition to rear on S side built into slope. Abandoned range of 2-storey farm buildings nearby. House shown in this vicinity on Down Survey (1655-6) (1655-6) barony map. According to local information, remains of house demolished in 1990s.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Nearby in the register

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

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