House - 17th century

The National Monuments Service's description

At the junction of Watergate St. and Burke St. Craig and Garner (1975, 51) noted that the first two houses on the S side have a pie-crust cornice, 'dating them to circa 1700'. There was another building attached to the W gable of the most westerly house which may have been similar (Farrelly and FitzPatrick 1993, 103-04). The easterly house has a slightly higher roof pitch and only portion of the pie-crust cornice has survived intact (ibid.). Both houses have had major internal alterations (ibid.). In Steile's map of 1752 the area occupied by these houses is called 'Old Jerusalem', and 'Jerusalem' also forms part of the description for this area on Grace's map of 1708, though on the latter map only a small building is depicted at this junction (O'Keeffe 2003, map 5 and appendix A; ibid., map 8 and appendix B).

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 9 March 2015

References

Craig, M. and Garner, W. 1975 National heritage inventory of buildings of architectural, historic and artistic interest in County Tipperary - South Riding. A preliminary survey. An Foras Forbartha Teoranta. Unpublished.

Farrelly, J. and FitzPatrick, E. 1993 Urban archaeological survey - county Tipperary (South Riding) (2 vols.). Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.

O'Keeffe, T. 2003 Historic town atlas no. 13: Fethard. Dublin. Royal Irish Academy.