Ballythomas House, County Laois

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What is recorded here

Home of Lord Dunboyne, Bishop of Cork. Described in the nineteenth century as a seventeenth century house that has been remodelled in recent times, in which process, one of its storeys with its castellations was removed (Comerford 1886, vol. 3, 282). Occupied dwelling consisting of a a two storey house (Wth c. 6.1m, L c. 15.5m) rendered with pepple-dash and with a dressed cut stone doorway with key stone. Four rectangular windows on ground floor and three on top floor on front of building. A curtain wall runs westward from the house ending in a pillar. None of the original outer buildings remain. Some cobbling visible outside N gable of house.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LA014-012

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