Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 17th century
Rostonstown, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rostonstown
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- WX053-107----
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The National Monuments Service's description
A house is depicted on the Down Survey barony map (1656-8) of Forth barony at Rostonstown (14). According to the Book of Survey and Distribution (1660s) Nicholas Stafford of Ballymacane (WX053-005----) owned 75 acres at Rostonstown in 1640, and over 600 acres in Tacumshin parish (Simington 1953, 304-05). 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: 27 March, 2014
Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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