Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - vernacular house
Kenmare, County Kerry, Ireland
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----
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
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
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Schoolunder 1 mi
- Schoolunder 1 mi
- Barracksunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.