House - 17th century

The National Monuments Service's description

Seskin House is mentioned in John Meagh's will of 1675 (Wills Index to Irish wills in the Carrigan Manuscripts, Irish Genealogist Vol 4 No 3 1970). It is possible that the present Seskin House, though largely early 19th century in appearance, incorporates the fabric of an earlier house. Seskin House is described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, as a 'Detached four-bay single- and two-storey house, c.1825, on an irregular plan possibly incorporating fabric of earlier house, c.1725, comprising two-bay single-storey recessed central bay with single-bay single-storey projecting flanking bays on half-octagonal plans, single-bay single-storey recessed end bay to right on a half-octagonal plan, and three-bay single-storey rear (north) elevation with half-dormer attic having single-bay single-storey return to north-east extending into five-bay two-storey service return to north'. The Inventory suggests that as the house is, 'occupying a complex footprint it is possible that the present composition evolved over a prolonged period of time or alternatively represents an eighteenth-century range redeveloped in the early nineteenth century' (www.buildingsofireland.ie; 22 February 2016).

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 22 February 2016