Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Icehouse
Tristernagh Demesne, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tristernagh Demesne
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Ice Ho.
- Latest-edition OS map
- Icehouse
- Coordinates
- 53.60018, -7.48054
- SMR number
- WM011-152----
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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
Icehouse of post-1700 date standing on the estate of Tristernagh House located 150m to SSE. Structure described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH) as follows; 'Pair of detached icehouses on polygonal plans, built c.1790, associated with Tristernagh House (now ruinous). Now disused. Icehouse to south has brick barrel-vaulted interior with evidence of rubble stone porch to front, now collapsed. Blocked entrance to south. Rubble stone facing to entrance front with square-headed opening with brick surround. Icehouse to north has domed brick interior with rubble stone porch with segmental-headed doorcase (opening within top half of chamber) on northwest side' (NIAH Reg. No. 15401113; https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/15401113/tristernagh-demesne-westmeath)
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 30 August 2017
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Icehouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.