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Armorial plaque

Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Armorial plaque, Tralee, County Kerry, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Tralee
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.26889, -9.70672
SMR number
KE029-236003-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (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

This record is for the original location of a heraldic crest which is built into a rockery in the garden of the modern Dominican church in Tralee (see present location KE029-119009-). It is presumably from the medieval Dominican friary (KE029-236001-).

References

Bradley, J., Halpin, A., and King, H.A. 1987 Urban archaeological survey - county Kerry. Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.

Hayward, R. 1987 In the kingdom of Kerry. Dundalk. Dundalgan Press.

Denny, Rev. H. L. L. 1907-09 Tralee Parish Church. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead, in Ireland. vol. 7, 363-8.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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