Designed landscape feature

The National Monuments Service's description

The precise location of a gardens, orchards mentioned in an old lease amongst the Denny rentals and estate books has not been identified. Hickson (1881, 579) recorded the following details about these gardens; 'Jan. 5th, 1742. Colonel Thomas Denny to Patrick Hely Fitz Thomas, merchant, the tan-yard, mill [KE029-185001-], house [KE029-185002-], and small cabin [KE029-185003-] 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

References

Hickson, M.A. 1881 Notes on Kerry Topography, Ancient and Modern, with Extracts from the Unpublished Desmond Survey and Inquisition (Continued). The Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland, 571-86.