House - 16th/17th century

The National Monuments Service's description

Land grant in the Calendar of Patent Rolls for James I in 1623 records the following land grant to Giles Rawlins under the plantation of Queens County the lands of Reary More and states that he should 'hold in free and common soccage; all ancient glebes, rectories and vicarages excepted; with power to make tenures; to enjoy all waifs and strays; to have free warren and all tithes great and small; bound to build a mansion house, with a bawn 200 feet in circuit or to forfeit 300 l (pounds). Subject to the conditions of the Plantation of Queens county as an undertaker.' (Cal. Pat. Rolls. James I, p. 540, entry no. I). Located 65m to the SW of the church and graveyard of Rearymore (LA003-003001-) there is a two storey 8 bay house with a two storey porch off centre to N. The house is E facing and is orientated on a N-S axis. It is a multiperiod building which has been extended to the E by the addition of three bays. Originally the house appears to have been a single pile 5 bay two storey gable ended house with two storey Jacobean style porch in centre of E façade. There is datestone or marriage stone over the doorway of the porch which reads 'July the 1st 1771 M..M'. This porch or datestone may have been added when the house to commemorate the house extension in the 18th century. According to the current house owner the original S gable chimney stack protruded externally beyond the S gable. Only recently has this wall been re-plastered and the external chimney stack has been rendered over making it a flush face of the room that's was extended to the S of the chimney stack. The original two storey house may be the seventeenth century hosue referred to in the above land grant to Giles Rawlins in 1623. On the top of the porch there is medieval twin light limestone window spandrel which was probably removed from the nearby church (LA003-003001-) at Rearymore.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 17 December 2007