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House - vernacular house

Kenmare, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - vernacular house, Kenmare, 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
Kenmare
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Tom Moores Cottage
Coordinates
51.87574, -9.58355
SMR number
KE093-120----

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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

At E side of road leading S from Kenmare town. Abandoned one-storey rectangular structure with front (W) of five bays; central door flanked on either side by two diamond-pane windows. Hipped roof with chimney slightly off-centre to right. Side elevation of one bay. Rear of three bays with flat-roofed extension masking right bay. Two one-storey outhouses to rear. Indicated but not named on 1846 OS 6-inch map. It is believed locally that the composer Thomas Moore once stayed here.

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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