Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - belvedere
Moorepark, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moorepark
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1934)
- Coordinates
- 52.17351, -8.24200
- SMR number
- CO028-010----
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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
Inside entrance gate in demesne of Moore Park. Small two-storey hexagonal structure built of random-rubble, atop stepped plinth. Door ope in S wall, rectangular window overhead. Moore Park no longer survives; it was 'a large and plain Georgian house' which was burnt in 1908 (Bence-Jones 1978, 211).
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.