Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Deer park
Edgeworthstown, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Edgeworthstown
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LF015-063006-
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The National Monuments Service's description
Associated with a 17th-century house (LF015-063003-). In 1682 Nicholas Dowdall recorded that Sir John Edgeworth on receiving his father’s estate ‘hath Improved it by building a fair house planted Orchards and Gardens [LF015-063008-] very Sumptuous and Impalled a fair Park for Deer' (Gillespie and Moran 1991, 210). The precise location of the deer park has not been identified.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 18 February 2013
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