Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 17th century
Boolyshea, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boolyshea
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- KK018-025004-
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The National Monuments Service's description
The Down Survey (1655-6) parish map of 'Ballicallan' depicts two houses N of Stony Stream, one house (KK018-025003-) W of Boolyshea Castle (KK018-025001-) and the other to the N (Hibernia Regnum, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin). In the terrier accompanying the Down Survey parish map of 'Canice', the proprietor of 'Ballyshea' in 1640 in listed as Robert Shea, Irish Papist (ibid.). The precise location of the northernmost house is unknown within Boolyshea townland.
See attached:
KK018-025004-_01 Extract from Down Survey (1655-6) parish map of ‘Ballicallan’
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 29 June 2020