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House - 16th/17th century

Drinan, County Dublin, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - 16th/17th century, Drinan, County Dublin, 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
Drinan
County
Dublin
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.44709, -6.19542
SMR number
DU012-024001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

According to Flanagan, Drynan House was a Jacobean mansion built during the reign of Charles 1 (1984, 52, 59). There is a housing estate on the site. A sheela-na-gig (DU012-024002-) was removed from a gate post at Drynan House in the 1940's and placed in the National Museum, Dublin (Dunlea 1945, 114).

Compiled by: Geraldine Stout

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

References

Flanagan, N. 1984 Malahide: past and present. Malahide. Privately published.

Dunlea, P.P. 1945 A new sheela -na-gig. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 75, 114.

Nearby in the register

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

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