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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
Muckross Abbey
Coordinates
52.01809, -9.50414
SMR number
KE074-030----

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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

Within Muckross Demesne. Present house built in 1839-43 for Col Rt Hon H.A. Herbert, MP. Bence-Jones (1990, 220) describes it as 'large cut-stone Elizabethan-Revival mansion by William Burn ...Stepped gables with pointed finials; mullioned windows, many oriels; tall chimneys. A porte-cochere was added ca 1870...' A walled garden lies adjacent to the E. Also within the Demesne are the sites of three earlier houses: the first (KE074-027---), dating to the early 18th-century, c. 1km to the W; the second (KE074-028---), dating to c. 1770, c. 450m to the N; the third (KE074-029---), Torc Cottage, c. 1.5km to the SSW. A possible former estate manager's house, known as Arthur Vincent House, stands c. 500m to the NW; two-storey three-bay house with hipped roof, of early 19th-century appearance. Immediately to the E of this are the overgrown ruins of a stable yard associted with the 1770s house. Other features on the demesne include gate lodges, boathouses, estate cottages, quays (KE074-043----, KE074-042----) and bridges (including KE074-040----).

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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