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Architectural fragment

Kilbreanbeg, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Architectural fragment, Kilbreanbeg, 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
Kilbreanbeg
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.09125, -9.46658
SMR number
KE059-022----

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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)
  • 1868 · 4. 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

A thin slab of carved limestone (0.4m x 0.29m; T 0.07m) was discovered in the chimney breast of a cottage when the cottage was demolished; the slab was later used as the pivot stone for a gate. The stone is damaged but enough survives to show it was the end-stone in a flat-arched fireplace mantle. The decoration consists of a shallow recessed panel with ovolo borders, outlining the L-shape of the stone. There is a roll on the inside edge of the angle. The style is late16th/early 17th-century in date and it probably came from a tower house or a fortified house though none survive in the area where the stone was discovered. It is now in private ownership.

Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.

Date of upload: 31 January 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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