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House - 16th/17th century

Cregga, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - 16th/17th century, Cregga, County Roscommon, 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
Cregga
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Cregga Ho.
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.81990, -8.13172
SMR number
RO023-200002-

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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

On the E-facing slope of Cregga Hill. Cregga was acquired by McDermot Roe in 1661 (Kennedy 2000, 80-1) and the house may have been built thereafter. Cregga House is depicted as an occupied U-shaped building with two wings extending to the SW on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. The SW wing survives as a vaulted chamber (int. dims 5.5m NE-SW; 3m NW-SE; H 2.2m) which had an upper floor. It communicated by a doorway (Wth 1.23m; H 1.6m) in its NE wall with the rest of the house which is now represented by a grass-covered mound (dims c. 25m NE-SW; c. 5.5m NW-SE; max. H 1.5m). Three rooms and a passageway (Wth 2.3m) leading through the house to a yard (dims 12m NE-SW; 5m NW-SE) between the wings can be identified in the mound. The NW wing, which survives as a featureless NW gable and a SW wall (Wth 0.6m; H 1.8m) with one window, appears to be later than the rest of the structure. An underground store (int. dims 3.3m ENE-WSW; 1.2m NNW-SSE; H 0.9m) with a corbelled roof is no longer visible. Dovecote (RO023-201----) is c. 20m to the SSE, and tower house (RO023-200001-) is c. 100m to the W.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

References

Kennedy, M. 2000 The highs and lows of the Cregga Hills. Journal of the Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society 8, 80-2.

Nearby in the register

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

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