Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 17th century
Tomduff (ballaghkeen By.), County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tomduff (ballaghkeen By.)
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- WX017-014----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The manor of Coolag was granted to Sir William Parsons in 1612, but it is called Parsonstown in 1618. A house '28 foot (c. 9m) high' that had flanking towers, and a court or bawn had been built by 1621. By 1641 Sir Walsingham Cooke of Newtown (WX003-004----) was in possession through the marriage of Cooke's daughter with Parson's son. The manor house in Tomduff was in ruins in 1654 (Simington 1953, 38-9) but an estate amounting to 930 acres in Killenagh parish was attached to it in the townlands of Tomduff, Coolockmore, Coolockbeg, the three Raheens, Killenagh, Ballyduff, Ballywalter and the unknown Monganecolen. The location is not certain but it may have been where Tomduff House stood, strategically placed over a bend in the S-N Owenavorragh River. (Loeber and Stouthamer-Loeber 1987, 197–8)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload/revision: 21 May, 2012
References
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.