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House - 17th century

Killusty North, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - 17th century, Killusty North, 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
Killusty North
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
52.44299, -7.63258
SMR number
TS070-106002-

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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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

Built onto the SW gable of a tower house (TS070-106001-), on the NW side of a farm courtyard. This is a four-bay, two-storey house (dims. 13.25m NE-SW; 6.9m NW-SE; wall T 0.87-92m) with a chimney (D 0.74m; Wth 2.2m), now blocked up, projecting from the rear wall and a large projecting chimney (D 2.33m; Wth 2.55m) 1.4m from the S angle, also blocked internally, in the SW gable. The latter chimney appears to have been extended at the base, it has a large opening to the SW suggesting it may have served a building adjoining the SW gable of the house. On the 25-inch OS map a building is shown extending from the SW gable and another from the rear of the house. A one storey outbuilding currently occupies the W end of the SW gable. It is possible, given the very large size of the gable chimney, that originally the house extended further to the SW. The roof line is slightly lower than the gable, Craig and Garner (1975, 87) suggest that this may indicate that the roof was once thatched. Internally the house is divided into three rooms on the ground floor (D 5.52m), one room leading to another, with a wooden stairs rising in the S angle. The wall thickness and projecting chimneys suggest a late 17th-century date for this house.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 4 December 2012

References

Craig, M. and Garner, W. 1975 National heritage inventory of buildings of architectural, historic and artistic interest in County Tipperary - South Riding. A preliminary survey. An Foras Forbartha Teoranta. Unpublished.

Nearby in the register

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

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