Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Country house
Grenagh, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grenagh
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grenagh Ho.
- Coordinates
- 52.06480, -9.62260
- SMR number
- KE065-126----
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
An abandoned multi-phase house. The core of the building is a two-storey structure, rectangular in plan, with a weatherslated bow end at SW. The entrance front (SE) is of five bays with a central door hidden behind a porch. The hipped roof is partially collapsed and there are two off-centre chimneys. Three two-storey gabled projections occupy the full length of the rear. There is a two-storey double gable-ended additon at NE with pigeon-holes in one gable. The remains of a farmyard with outbuildings lies adjacent to the NE and there is a walled garden to the NW. An abandoned gatelodge is c. 1km to the NE on the main Killarney-Killorglin road.
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
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.