Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 17th century
Whitehouse, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Whitehouse
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- WX043-010001-
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The National Monuments Service's description
A house is marked on the Down Survey (1656-8) barony map of Forth at Whitehouse and Whitehoult (13), which is now called Walsheslough, and a thatched house is listed at Whitehouse on the terrier or commentary of parish map of Rosslare in NLI (ms, 725; microfilm, P 7384; N 6380) where Rowland Scurlocke owned 120 acres in 1640 (Simington 1953, 307). An ancestor of Rowland’s had been a physician to Queen Mary Tudor (1553-8) and had been awarded the manors of Rosslare and Ballymore for his service (Hore 1920, 91-3). The precise location of this house is not known.
See the attached section of the Down Survey (1656-8) barony map (N at right) reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland (Ms 725)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 7 January, 2014
References
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1953 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. IX: county of Wexford. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
Hore, P.H. 1920 The barony of Forth, Part 1. The Past 1, 62-106.