Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Knockagh (drom Par.), County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockagh (drom Par.)
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Knockagh Ho. (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 52.77826, -7.87077
- SMR number
- TN029-059002-
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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
Situated on the SE-facing slope of a low rise in undulating countryside built onto the S face of a tower house (TN029-059001). A seventeenth-century U-plan house consisting of a three-bay central block with two-bay projecting wings, two storeys high over basement. The house had flat-headed windows with a central flat-headed doorway and tall, rectangular chimney stacks (Bence-Jones 1988, 178). Since destroyed.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.