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House - fortified house

Kilmurry (Trughanacmy By.), County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - fortified house, Kilmurry, 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
Kilmurry (Trughanacmy By.)
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
52.23086, -9.38042
SMR number
KE040-062003-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1811 · 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

Barrington (1976, 230) describes 'Kilmurry Castle..., a 16th century tower house [KE040-062001-] to which was added a now much ruined fortified house of the early part of the 17th century.'

References

Barrington, T.J. 1976 (new edition 1999) Discovering Kerry. Cork. The Collins Press.

Nearby in the register

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

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