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Ecclesiastical residence

Gortnaboul, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical residence, Gortnaboul, 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
Gortnaboul
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Glebe Ho.
Coordinates
51.90121, -9.45365
SMR number
KE094-072----

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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

On a S-facing slope overlooking the Roughty River c. 1km W of Kilgarvan. A two-storey glebe house over a basement which is exposed as a third storey at the rear. The front is of three bays with a central two-storey gabled projection of one bay. The window opes on the ground floor have been enlarged. The side elevations are one bay deep. The rear is of three bays with a recent flat-roofed extension. The hipped roof has two long off-centre chimneys. There is an enclosed stable yard to the rear. The house is said to have been built as a rectory in 1815 (Bary 1994, 208-9).

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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