Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 17th century
Bunargate, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bunargate
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- WX053-042----
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The National Monuments Service's description
A house with a chimney is depicted on the Down Survey barony map (1656-8) of Forth at Bunargate (15) in Tacumshin parish. According to the Book of Survey and Distribution (1660s) Nicholas Stafford of Ballymacane (WX053-005----) owned 41 acres here in 1640 (Simington 1953, 304-05) and over 200 acres in the parish as well as Lady’s Island Lough, then known as Lough Tougher. 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: 21 March, 2014
References
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1953 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. IX: county of Wexford. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.