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Kirkby Hall, Kirkby Ireleth
Kirkby Hall
civil parish:-   Kirkby Ireleth (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   SD23578353
1Km square:-   SD2383
10Km square:-   SD28

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 11 5) 
placename:-  Kirkby Hall
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.

evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
placename:-  Kirkby Cross House
item:-  crossiron ore
source data:-   Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789.
image CAM2P143, button  goto source
Page 143:-  "Kirkby near Ireleth was the seat of the antient family of Kirkby from the Conquest, but now belongs to lord John Cavendish. The manor-house, now mostly down, was called Kirkby cross house, from a cross before the door, whose head is said to have been broken off by order of archbishop Sandys who was born at Hawkshead. Ireleth is the place whence the iron ore is now shipped, and its name may be derived from ire iron, and lath a barn, in the country dialect"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Kirkby Hall
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"KIRKBY HALL / / A595 / KIRKBY IRELETH / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / I / 75868 / SD2356483547"

notes:-  
possible defensive hall

Perriam, D R &Robinson, J: 1998: Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria: CWAAS:: ISBN 1 873124 23 6; plan

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