Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 17th century
Kilbride (ballaghkeen North By., Courtown Ed), County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilbride (ballaghkeen North By., Courtown Ed)
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- WX012-016----
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The National Monuments Service's description
A stone house in repair at Kilbride/Courtown is listed amongst as part of the Manor of Prospect (WX007-049----) in 1641, the property of Edward Chichester (Simington 1953, 35), to whom it had come through marriage. The house at Kilbride may have been leased by John Cooke in 1642, and it may have become the centre of the Chichester estates in Wexford. In 1711 the Courtown property passed to John Stopford, ancestor of the Earls of Courtown. The location of the house is not known, but it may have been where Courtown House, an 18th century building now removed (Bence-Jones 1978, 93), was later built. (Loeber, Stouthamer-Loeber 1987, 196-7)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 13 April, 2012
References
Bence-Jones, M. 1978 Burke's Guide to Country Houses: Volume 1 Ireland. London. Burke's Peerage Ltd.
Loeber, R. and Stouthamer-Loeber, M. 1987 The lost architecture of the Wexford Plantation. In K. Whelan and W. Nolan (eds), Wexford: history and society, 173-200. Dublin. Geography Publications.
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1953 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. IX: county of Wexford. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.