Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Country house
Dollas Upper, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dollas Upper
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dollas House (1924).
- Coordinates
- 52.49113, -8.75397
- SMR number
- LI030-115----
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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
18th century Dollas House may have been built on site of or incorporated fabric from a house depicted on the 17th century Down Survey map of Coshma Barony (Hib. Reg.). Present house described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH) as follows; 'Detached four-bay two-storey house, built c. 1760, having single-storey extensions to east elevation. Now in disuse. Pitched slate roof with render over red brick chimneystacks and render copings. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings, some with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and painted stone sills. Square-headed door opening, now blocked up' (www.buildingsofireland.ie; NIAH Reg. No. 21903012).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 9 December 2020
References
Hibernia Regnum: A set of 214 barony maps of Ireland dating to the period AD 1655-59. The original parish maps have been lost but the Hibernia Regnum maps are preserved in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris (Goblet 1932, v-x). Photographic facsimiles of these maps were published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton in 1908.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.