Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 17th century
Carrickglass Demesne (longford By.), County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrickglass Demesne (longford By.)
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LF014-116----
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The National Monuments Service's description
An impressive large two-storey house, annotated ‘Docter Richardsons House’ is depicted on the Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of Longford (NLI, MS 719). The house was the residence of Dr John Richardson, bishop of Ardagh, who died in 1654 (Crooks et al. 1999, 48). In 1698 the lands of Carrickglass were given to Trinity College, Dublin (Stubbs 1889, 147). The precise location of the house has not been identified but ‘Carrickglass Manor’, which was built in the 19th century (www.buildingsofireland.ie, Reg. 13401414, last accessed 1 August 2013), may have been built on or close to its site.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brian
Date of upload: 1 August 2013
References
Stubbs, J.W. 1889 The history of the university of Dublin, from its foundation to the end of the eighteenth century: with an appendix of original documents which, for the most part, are preserved in the college. Dublin. Hodges, Figgis and Company.
NLI, MS 719 - National Library of Ireland, The parish maps of the Down Survey of Co. Longford attested by W. Petty under date 1657. Copied by Daniel O'Brien. A set of 22 maps with accompanying terriers, 1786-7. Dublin.
Crooks, D.W.T., Fawcett, F.W. and Leslie, J.B. (eds.) 1999 Clergy of Derry and Raphoe. Belfast. Ulster Historical Foundation.