Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Inscribed stone
Ballycowan, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycowan
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.27609, -7.55916
- SMR number
- OF016-018003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Located on a low natural mound in an area of undulating countryside with good extensive views. 17th-century fortified house (OF016-018001-) five storeys high with tall chimney stacks and square headed transomed and mullioned windows that was built in 1626 by Sir Jasper Harbert whose coat of arms can be seen above the two centred arch doorway of the entrance tower. The armorial stone (OF016-018004-) bears the arms of the Harbert family, with the motto below 'By God of might, I hold my right'. Over this entrance and below the armorial plaque there is an inscribed stone which reads 'This house was built by Sir Jasper Harbert Knight and Dame Joan Finglas in the year 1626'
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- House - fortified houseunder 1 mi
- Armorial plaqueunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.