Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Gate lodge
Dromhumper, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromhumper
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Gate Lodge
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.05237, -9.48220
- SMR number
- KE066-136----
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
Built into a steep slope on the N side of a road overlooking the River Flesk to the N. A two-storey castellated tower, octagonal in plan, over a square basement (int. 3.08m x 3.03m). Built of random rubble with some brick, rendered over and incised to resemble ashlar. Pointed door ope in the S wall with rectangular window opes on either side and a single first floor window over the door; ope surrounds of cut limestone with hood-mouldings. Fireplace in the NW corner of the basement and a stove flue in the N wall of the first floor. Associated yard and storage structures at basement level. Named 'Gate Lodge' on the 1846 OS 6-inch map near the avenue to Flesk Castle (KE066-132---) c. 300m to the SE.
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
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.