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Deer park

Poyntstown (Fennor Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Deer park, Poyntstown (Fennor Par.), County Tipperary South, 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
Poyntstown (Fennor Par.)
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Old Deer Park
Latest-edition OS map
Old Deer Park
Coordinates
52.62613, -7.62018
SMR number
TS048-047----

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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

On the NW facing slope at the foothills of the Slieveardagh hills with good views from W through N to NE. Nearby castle (TS048-034001-) and seventeenth century house (TS048-034002-) 250m to the W and Mellisson castle (TS048-026001-) 310m to the NE. Large rectangular area (dims. 875m NW-SE x 630m NE-SW) enclosed by a roughly coursed limestone wall (Wall T 0.45m; H 1.2m) which marks out the limit of the deer park. The area inside the deerpark is mainly in grassland except for a single field in the SW corner of the park which has been planted in coniferous plantation. The NW end of the deerpark encloses flat grassland while the SE end encompasses the lower slopes of the Slieveardagh hills. The wall on the S and E sides of the deer park forms the townland boundary between the townlands of Poyntstown and Mellisson. A map of the area from 1824 marks this area as the deer park as indicated on the 1840 OS 6-inch map. Possible medieval deerpark associated with the nearby castle (TS048-034001-) of Poyntstown to the SW or with Mellisson castle (TS048-026001-) to the NE.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 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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