Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 17th century
Punchestown Great, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Punchestown Great
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Punchestown Ho. in ruins
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.19090, -6.62105
- SMR number
- KD024-036----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In level pasture immediately N of Punchestown racecourse. Noble and Keenan show a walled estate with a large, possibly gabled, house on their 1752 map of County Kildare and, according to De Burgh (1896, 317), the house belonged to the Alen family in the late-17th century. It may have been levelled by 1783 as it is not shown by Taylor on his map of the county. No visible surface trace survives. A triangular pond to the S may be a relict landscape feature.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 05 July 2012
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.