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
- 52.10452, -10.51006
- SMR number
- KE051-014----
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 Peig Sayers a renowned Irish author and seanachaí. She was born in 1858 near Dún Chaoin (Dunquin), Co. Kerry and moved to the Great Blasket Island after marrying in 1892 Pádraig Ó Guithín, a fisherman and native of the island. She and Pádraig had eleven children, of whom six survived. Peig returned to her native Dún Chaoin in 1942 and died in 1958. She is best remembered for her autobiography 'Peig' but she also recounted folklore and other stories which were recorded in 'Machnamh Seanmhná/An Old Woman's Reflections': these books were not written by Peig but comprised reminiscences dictated to others.
Compiled by: Matt Kelleher
Updated by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 10 July 2015
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 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.