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Country house

Muckross, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Country house, Muckross, 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
Muckross
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.02189, -9.50509
SMR number
KE074-028----

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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

Near a small area of woodland c. 450m N of the present Muckross House (KE074-030----). Some undulations and ruins are evident among the undergrowth. According to J. Larner (pers. comm.), this is the site of a house built c. 1770 to replace an early 18th-century house (KE074-027----), the site of which may lie c. 1km to the WSW. Bary (1994, 188), basing her description on a sketch in Muckross House, states that it was 'a typical eighteenth century habitation of three storeys over a basement with seven bays and dormer windows on the third storey...It was gable-ended, with numerous chimneys. It had a strange, square addition at the eastern end , which appeared attached to the house...'

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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