Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Ballyheige, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyheige
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.39236, -9.83928
- SMR number
- KE014-100----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The original house of the Crosbies was a long, low and thatched building which faced onto an enclosed bawn. There was a stone tower in the corner of the bawn which was part of an old castle built by the De Cantillons. A new house replaced the thatched building around 1758 and this was further remodelled into a castellated mansion designed by Richard and William Vitruvius Morrison around 1809 (Bence-Jones 1988, 22-3). Burnt during 1921, a wing was recently restored and now forms the centrepiece of a surrounding golf course.
Compiled by: Matt Kelleher
Date of upload: 19 December 2013
References
Bence-Jones, M. 1988 A guide to Irish country houses. London
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Clochanunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.