Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 16th/17th century
Ballythomas, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballythomas
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ballythomas House
- Coordinates
- 53.04943, -7.16003
- SMR number
- LA014-012----
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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
Home of Lord Dunboyne, Bishop of Cork. Described in the nineteenth century as a seventeenth century house that has been remodelled in recent times, in which process, one of its storeys with its castellations was removed (Comerford 1886, vol. 3, 282). Occupied dwelling consisting of a a two storey house (Wth c. 6.1m, L c. 15.5m) rendered with pepple-dash and with a dressed cut stone doorway with key stone. Four rectangular windows on ground floor and three on top floor on front of building. A curtain wall runs westward from the house ending in a pillar. None of the original outer buildings remain. Some cobbling visible outside N gable of house.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Nearby in the register
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- Enclosureunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.