Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 18th/19th century
Knockmore, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockmore
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 52.43364, -8.65709
- SMR number
- LI039-193----
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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
National monument No. 576. This small cottage, built by Kilmallock Poor Law Union after the 1883 Act, is the childhood home of Eamon de Valera (1882-1975), former Taoiseach and President of Ireland. Described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (Reg. No. 21903913) as follows: 'Detached three-bay single-storey labourer's cottage, built c. 1885. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls. Square-headed openings having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and concrete sills. Square-headed openings to north and south elevations with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and concrete sills. Square-headed opening having timber battened half-door with recent timber gablet over. Single-bay single-storey outbuilding to south having pitched slate roof. Rendered walls. Square-headed opening with timber battened door. Limestone cobbles to east. Rubble limestone walls to site having single-leaf cast-iron gate to south.'
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 25 August 2015
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.