Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Country house
Killee, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killee
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Killee House (1935)
- Coordinates
- 52.26528, -8.33471
- SMR number
- CO019-158----
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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)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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
Late 18th/ Early 19th-century, 2-storey house, with basement to rear. Hipped roof with central valley, large central chimney, deeply projecting eaves. Entrance front (E) of 5 bays: central porch entrance, with iron steps up to doors on both sides of porch; sash windows. Rear elevation (W) of 4-bays. One-storey farm buildings extend from side elevations, east elevations treated like curtain wall with ornate round-headed niches connecting to pavilion-like end bays with tall round-headed niches in shallow breakfront, N end hipped, S end gabled. End bays return as farm buildings into yard at rear. Mid-19th-century gate lodge beside piered entrance at end of long avenue approaching from E; avenue crosses single-arched bridge adjacent to site of Killee church and graveyard (14592).
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.