Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 16th/17th century
Grange (balrothery East By., Balscaddan Ed), County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grange (balrothery East By., Balscaddan Ed)
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.61040, -6.24178
- SMR number
- DU001-008----
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Shown on 5 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
An inspection in 1994 recorded a vernacular building in a largely disused farmyard. The dwelling was one storey high with a lobby-entry plan. Built of clay and stone. Hipped roof of unsown timbers pegged together and supporting a wheaten thatch covered with corrugated iron. It had a large open hearth with brick canopy supported by stout unsown bressamer. There was a brick-lined, domed wall oven to one side of the hearth. This may have been the dwelling house of George Taffe where mass was said in 1630 (Ronan 1940, 71) and the same 'farmhouse' mentioned in the Civil Survey in 1654-166 (Simington 1945, 75; Vernacular Building Survey of County Dublin, 2 (015).
The site was reinspected in 2010. None of the upstanding vernacular farm buildings matched the above description. The new owner had found that a house had existed on the site but had been pulled down sometime in the last 20 years.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 7 October 2014
References
Ronan, Rev. M.V. 1940 Mulhuddart and Cloghran. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 70, 182-93.
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1945 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. VII: county of Dublin. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
Nearby in the register
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- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.