House - indeterminate date

The National Monuments Service's description

The precise location of a cabin mentioned in an old lease amongst the Denny rentals and estate books has not been identified. Hickson (1881, 579) recorded the following details about this cabin; 'Jan. 5th, 1742. Colonel Thomas Denny to Patrick Hely Fitz Thomas, merchant, the tan-yard, mill [KE029-185001-], house [KE029-185002-], and small cabin south of said tan yard, together with the gardens and small closes or fields west of said yard, called Guaire's lands - two acres, three roods, and twenty-seven perches, bounded on the north by the house of the Rev. Maurice Connor, deceased, and the orchard, garden, and fields, lying westward thereof; on the west with part of Cahirslee, and on the south with part of Roland Bateman's paddock, Gortacushlane, and Michael Fitz Gerald's house; on the east with the street or highway leading from Tralee to Gallow's Green; for twenty nine years at £5 10s., with five bushels of oatmeal on every first day of said term, or 10s. in lieu thereof, with a clause of surrender at six months' notice from the 29th September'.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 15 June 2022