Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 17th century
Swiftsheath, County Kilkenny, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 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
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®no=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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.