TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Country house

Trabolgan, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Country house, Trabolgan, 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
Trabolgan
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Trabolgan House (1935)
Coordinates
51.79642, -8.23530
SMR number
CO100-040----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

Late 18th-century house described by Bence-Jones (1978, 276) as entrance front (S) of '2-storey 8-bay centre with wings of 5 bays on either side, beyond which are shallow curved bows each with 3 windows...central single-storey Doric portico; the wings have round-headed windows'. Rear of 3 storeys. Demolished c. 1989; inscribed stone found during demolition read 'John Roche 1790'. Several estate features survive including gate-lodge, triumphal arch half way up avenue, walled garden, Roche's Tower (6104). Free-standing square chimney (H c. 15m; Wth 2.13m;) c. 450m to N of house; base stone-built, upper 9m brick-built; according to local information, part of gas works which provided light for house.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Country house in Cork All County Cork records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map