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House - 16th/17th century

Clonbeg, County Offaly, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - 16th/17th century, Clonbeg, County Offaly, 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
Clonbeg
County
Offaly
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Convent (Site of)
Coordinates
53.03586, -7.86099
SMR number
OF038-021----

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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)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on rising ground in undulating countryside. All that remains of this house is the central chimney stack (Wth 3.2m; L. 1.2m) which is faced on both sides built with roughly coursed limestone rubble. There is a fireplace on the NE and SW faces which originally heated a ground floor room either side of the chimney stack. The remains indicate that the chimney stack was built first freestanding with the walls of the house being built around the chimney stack. The plan of the house would have consisted of two ground rooms orientated NE-SW with a central door directly in front of the chimney stack from which either room was accessed. This site is very similar to another medieval house in Ballynamire (OF016-058). Marked as a convent on the OS 6-inch map. Probable 17th-century farmhouse.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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