Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 17th century
Ford of Ling, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ford of Ling
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- WX048-103----
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The National Monuments Service's description
A house is represented on the Down Survey (1656-8) barony map of Forth at the S end of Rathdowney (7) in a detatched portion of Ballybrennan parish, which is now Ford of Ling townland. According to the Book of Survey and Distribution (1660s) Jasper Synnott owned 64 acres at Rathdowne and Forde in 1640 (Simington 1953, 303). The precise location of this house is not known.
See the attached section of the Down Survey barony map (N at right) reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 8 January, 2014
References
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1953 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. IX: county of Wexford. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.