What is recorded here

Deer park in Farranrory Lower is a deer park in Farranrory Lower, County Tipperary, Ireland. An 1824 map shows a deer park measuring about 375 metres northwest to southeast and 560 metres northeast to southwest beside Farranrory castle. The 2011 inventory recorded a roughly coursed limestone wall running beside the castle drive as a possible surviving enclosure boundary; it measured one metre high and 0.5 metres thick. The same account placed the park on a southeast-facing grassland slope with wide views.

On a SE-facing slope of rising grassland in an upland region with good views in all directions. A tower house, Farranrory castle (TS049-051001-), is located immediately NE of the deerpark. A map of the coal district of Killenaule from 1824 9 NLI 16.I.17(1) shows the boundaries of the deerpark which encompasses the land adjoining the SW of the tower house. Traces of this deerpark enclosure (dims 375m NW-SE by 560m NE-SW) may be represented by a low roughly coursed limestone wall which runs parallel to the SW of the driveway up to the castle (H 1m; wall T 0.5m). Originally this wall may have enclosed the deerpark associated with Farranrory castle. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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