Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Country house
Loughlea, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughlea
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Loughlea (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.26695, -8.64595
- SMR number
- CO017-136----
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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
Overgrown ruin of 2-storey mid-19th-century house. Indicated as rectangular structure (long axis NE-SW) named 'Fort Henry' on 1842 OS 6-inch map; different layout shown on 1906 OS 6-inch map and name changed to 'Loughlea'. Rendered with plastered quoins. Entrance front (SW) of 3 bays, central porch entrance. Sash windows with plastered surrounds. Lean-to stairway projection to rear. Gable-ended with chimneys atop gables. Farm buildings to rear.
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
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.