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Architectural fragment

Poulnamuck, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Architectural fragment, Poulnamuck, 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
Poulnamuck
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
52.04476, -9.50446
SMR number
KE066-134----

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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

On the E side of the road leading S from Killarney, 300m SE of Flesk Bridge. A square building (5m x 5m; H c. 8m; walls 0.6m thick) with an attached circular tower, containing a spiral stone stairs (int. diam. c. 1.35m), midway along its N side (see plans in Bary 1996, 32). It has a cruciform slate roof with each wall rising to a gable, and contains two floors with an attic; the building was partially restored in the mid-1990s. The ground floor window on the W wall incorporates a limestone sill from a mullioned window, and two chamfered jambs. These are of late 16th/early 17th-century date. Some of the quoin stones have similar tooling marks and are probably of the same date. However, the building itself appears to be a late-18th/early-19th century ornamental tower, but incorporating these earlier fragments whose origin is unknown.

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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