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Dovecote

Knockainy West, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Dovecote, Knockainy West, 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
Knockainy West
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.47322, -8.46658
SMR number
LI032-141016-

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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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

Medieval dovecote located inside the bawn (LI032-141014-) of Black Castle (LI032-141002-) also known as Desmond Castle. No surface remains visible of the castle, bawn or dovecote which stood on elevated ground on the W bank of the Camoge River. The 'Town Green' of the Manor of Aney [Knockainey] was located in the field immediately W of the Black Castle as depicted on the 1657 Down Survey map (NLI MS 718). The dovecote was described in the Desmond Survey of 1586 as following; 'A castle [LI032-141002-) there ruinous within except its stone walls with a large area or inclosure called in English "a Balne" [LI032-141014-) surrounded with a stony wall a dovecote within the precincts of the bawn (the wall and dovecote being in great decay)' (Murphy 2013, 151).

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 12 June 2019

References

NLI, MS 718 - National Library of Ireland, Parish maps with terriers, showing forfeited lands in County Limerick, commonly known as the "Down Survey", executed under the direction of Sir William Petty, 1657, and copied by Daniel O'Brien, 1786.

Murphy, J. A. 2013 The Desmond Survey, unpublished report. CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College, Cork College Road, Cork, Ireland - ucc.ie/celt

Nearby in the register

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

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