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Designed landscape - formal garden

Rathcoffey Demesne, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Designed landscape - formal garden, Rathcoffey Demesne, County Kildare, 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
Rathcoffey Demesne
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.33199, -6.66419
SMR number
KD010-018003-

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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)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (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

Recorded on the 1st ed. of the OS 6-inch map (1838) as two, formally laid out, rectangular gardens with internal pathways and divisions, the larger (est. dims. L c. 90m E-W; Wth c. 80m N-S) lying immediately NE of Rathcoffey House (KD010-018005-) is mirrored by a slightly smaller garden (est. dims. L c. 70m E-W; Wth c. 60m N-S) immediately to the SW of the house. Visible on a 1970's aerial photograph (CUCAP BDU036) as low earthworks, but extensive ploughing has removed obvious visible surface traces. An elongated pond or lake (est. dims. L c. 180m; Wth c. 30m), possibly marking the end of a vista, is also recorded on the OS 1st ed., on lower ground c. 450m S of the house. Now dry, it is known locally as the 'decoy', and in the 1890's and 1950's, produced several skulls and antlers of giant Irish deer. (JKAS 1945, 420-24)

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 10 June 2011

References

CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com

Nearby in the register

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

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