House - 16th century

The National Monuments Service's description

Located on a level landscape with a small N-S stream c. 130m to the W. The house was built in 1570 by Dionisius Stafford and his second wife Katherine Synnott of Ballygerry (WX048-017----), according to the Latin inscription of a memorial stone now lost. His first wife was Joan Browne of Mulrankin (WX047-031----) (Hore 1925, 15-6; Browne 1937). The house was largely pulled down c. 1860 (Browne 1937), and is abutting the N side of the tower house (WX048-033001-). It is a rectangular building (int. dims 16.5m N-S; 6m E-W) now reduced to one storey, but only the W wall and the N gable survive, with a blocked chimney-breast (Wth 3.5m) in the gable. One window (Wth 1.47m; H 1.58m) of four ogee-headed lights with the mullions removed, a doorway (Wth 0.93m) and one musket-loop in the W wall are original. Together with the tower house (WX048-033001-) it could form the E side of a bawn (WX048-033005-).

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 2 January, 2014

References

Hore, P. H. 1925 The barony of Forth. Part 3. The Past, vol. 3, 9-40.

Browne, K. 1937 Sixteenth century stone at Ballyconnor, Co. Wexford. Journal of the Royal Society of Anitquaries of Ireland vol. 67, 298-9.