Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 17th century
Maginstown, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Maginstown
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- TS076-012002-
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The National Monuments Service's description
According to the OS Letters 'Near his (Mr. Donnel's) house, there was formerly a "Great House" a portion of the walls belonging to which still remain' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 3, 85). The OS Letters refer to a Mr. Donnel who lived in Maginstown when the OS was being conducted. It is possible that, apart from the mid-17th-century thatched house (TS076-012----) in the townland, a house of mid to late 17th or early 18th-century date was built at Maginstown which partially survived in 1840. No trace of this 'Great House' could be located in the outbuildings in the vicinity of the present Maginstown house. Its precise location within the townland is unknown.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of revised upload: 22 September 2014
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1930 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Tipperary collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1840. Bray.