Tom Moores Cottage, house in County Kerry

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What is recorded here

At E side of road leading S from Kenmare town. Abandoned one-storey rectangular structure with front (W) of five bays; central door flanked on either side by two diamond-pane windows. Hipped roof with chimney slightly off-centre to right. Side elevation of one bay. Rear of three bays with flat-roofed extension masking right bay. Two one-storey outhouses to rear. Indicated but not named on 1846 OS 6-inch map. It is believed locally that the composer Thomas Moore once stayed here.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE093-120

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Photo credits

National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
N Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
dalvenjah on Flickr, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Nigel Cox, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
P L Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Kenmare Shamrocks GAA official club website; individual aerial photographer not named, kenmaregaa.ie
Maker not stated on source page, www.tripadvisor.ru
N Chadwick, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org

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