Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - fortified house
Kilmurry (trughanacmy By.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmurry (trughanacmy By.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.23086, -9.38042
- SMR number
- KE040-062003-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (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
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.