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House - 17th century

Swiftsheath, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - 17th century, Swiftsheath, County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Swiftsheath
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Swiftes Heath
Coordinates
52.74067, -7.31567
SMR number
KK010-075001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage as a, 'detached seven-bay two-storey Classical-style country house over basement, built c.1750, but incorporating fabric of earlier house dated 1651. Comprises five-bay two-storey recessed section, middle bays pedimented, fronted by single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch; seven-bay two-storey garden front to south having three-bay single-storey return to southeast. Extensively renovated c.1850' (http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KK&regno=12401002). The front W facing facade has composite pilasters supporting a frieze, with a cut limestone date-stone of A. D. 1651 incorporated in the frieze above the second pilaster from the recessed N end. The A. D. is inscribed in Cló Gaelach (Gaelic script). Bence-Jones (1978, 269) states that the house, 'was the boyhood home of Dean [Jonathan] Swift [1667-1745], who was brought up here by his uncle, Godwin Swift, Attorney-General to the Duke of Ormonde for the County Palatine of Tipperary'.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 8 January 2019

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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