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House - medieval

Cahirguillamore (Coshma By.), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - medieval, Cahirguillamore, County Limerick, 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
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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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (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.

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Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date upload: 31 March 2021

Nearby in the register

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

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