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Country house

Kilgortaree, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Country house, Kilgortaree, 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
Kilgortaree
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Kilgortaree Ho.
Coordinates
51.89014, -9.51066
SMR number
KE093-118----

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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)
  • 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (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

In pasture and woodland on steep N-facing slope overlooking the Roughty River. Two-storey house with front (N) of five bays; two-storey, one-bay gabled projection off-centre to right with central door. Gable-ended with large chimney off-centre to right. Rear elevation of three bays with dormer windows on first floor. Lean-to extension at E end. A range of lofted outhouses adjoins the front of the house at right angles to its W end. House was originally associated with the Orpen family and is believed to date to the 18th -century (Bary 1994, 150). According to local knowledge it served as a stopping place for coaches which travelled the old coach road running in a N-S direction immediately W of the house.

Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.

Date of upload: 30 May 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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