Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - medieval
Cahirguillamore (coshma By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahirguillamore (coshma By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.50897, -8.57012
- SMR number
- LI031-041031-
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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
In pasture, on the former deer park on the demesne of Cahir Guillamore House (LI031-041019-)and 30m E of the avenue to Cahir Guillamore. Deserted medieval settlement (LI031-041009-) lies 50m to W and ringfort (LI031-041011-) 120m to SW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified by Ó Ríordáin and Hunt (1942, 43) as a possible medieval house to the east of site 6(LI031-041011-). Ó Ríordáin and Hunt (ibid) described it as follows: ‘We suspect but are not so sure of, the existence of houses in other parts of the site, for instance east of B (LI031-041017-) and on the other side of the avenue east of 6 (LI031-041011-). The houses show as rectangular structures with low walls, the facing stones appearing through the turf in places. Generally the walls and the collapsed material from them appear as grass-covered banks’. Faint cropmarks visible on OSi orthoimage taken between 2005-12 and on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 20/09/2020 may be the remains of the medieval house located immediately N of a line of modern dwelling houses.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date upload: 31 March 2021
Nearby in the register
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.