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House - indeterminate date

Thurles Townparks, County Tipperary North, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - indeterminate date, Thurles Townparks, County Tipperary North, 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
Thurles Townparks
County
Tipperary North
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
52.67895, -7.81515
SMR number
TN041-042017-

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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (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

Situated at the W end of Liberty Square behind the houses fronting onto the square. In the Civil Survey of 1654-6 the house is described as 'a faire house wherein the Lady of Thurles liveth with a castle and severall Turrets upon the Bawne' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 53). This seventeenth-century house may have been constructed against the W face of the tower house (TN041-042001) where tie stones for an additional structure survive. Only fragmentary remains of the bawn survive, the N wall of which was levelled in recent years. These include a section of bawn wall, which would have joined the W wall of the tower house near the SW angle, with remains of a wall-walk. N of the tower house there is another portion with the remains of a bartizan. The bawn may be contemporary with the tower house and reused or modified when the seventeenth-century house was constructed.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.

Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Nearby in the register

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

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