Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 17th century
Greatrath, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Greatrath
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.05956, -6.85235
- SMR number
- KD032-049----
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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)
- 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
At the end of a laneway, in mixed pasture and tillage. Described by Ó Danachair (1966-7, 243-6) as a fine specimen of a “Thatched Mansion”, or large two-storied thatched house, which was common as the dwelling of prosperous farmers and lesser gentry in the 17th and 18th-centuries. It was originally a traditional direct entry house, and was built before 1717. There are two large rooms each, on ground and first floor, divided by partitions, and access to first floor-level was originally by means of a ladder. There are fireplaces in each room in the gable walls, and there is a built-in oven in the kitchen There is a second two-storey thatched house with an apparently similar layout c. 300m to the NNE in the same townland, which is not mentioned by O’Danachair.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 12 November 2013
References
Ó Danachair, C. 1966-7, Some notes on traditional house types in County Kildare, Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society, 14, No. 2. 243-6.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.