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Designed landscape - formal garden

Tirlickeen, County Longford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Designed landscape - formal garden, Tirlickeen, County Longford, 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
Tirlickeen
County
Longford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.58616, -7.79156
SMR number
LF022-072003-

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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)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (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

Associated with a 17th-century house (LF022-072----) and bawn (LF022-072002-).
In 1682 Nicholas Dowdall noted that 'Sir Connell Ferrall Knight hath wrought much improvement … by Inclosures Orchds Gardens &c' (Gillespie and Moran 1991, 211) to his house in Tirlickeen. Mason (1819, vol. 3, 340) recorded that 'traces of the old garden and orchard remain near the ruins of the old mansion-house of Tirlicken'. The orchards and gardens have not been precisely located but the trapezoidal walled area depicted to the N of the bawn on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map may be one of them. Only the W wall (L 44m; H 0.6m; wall T 0.7m) now survives. The construction of this wall and its thickness suggest that it is contemporary with the 17th-century bawn.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 18 June 2012

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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