Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 18th/19th century
An Blascaod Mór, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Blascaod Mór
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.10444, -10.51351
- SMR number
- KE051-013----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Shown on 3 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1841 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This is the home of Muirs Ó Suilleabháin the Irish author famous for his account of growing up on the Great Blasket island titled 'Fiche Bliain ag Fás' (Twenty years a growing) which was published in Irish and English in 1933. Born on the island in 1904 into an Irish-speaking community his mother died when he was only six months old and Ó Suilleabháin was reared in an institution in Dingle. He returned to the island in 1911 and subsequently joined the Garda Síochána in 1927. Ó Suilleabháin was stationed in the Connemara Gaeltacht, Co. Galway, but resigned from the force in 1934 intending to make his living from writing. He rejoined An Garda Síochána in 1950 and was stationed in Galway where on 25th June, he tragically drowned while swimming near Salthill.
Compiled by: Matt Kelleher
Updated by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 10 July 2015
Nearby in the register
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.