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In 1635 Castlecomer was granted to Christopher Wandesforde, who established a town there and in 1638 built Castlecomer House. The house is depicted on the Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of Fassadining, County Kilkenny (Hibernia Regnum, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin). Though, according to Nolan (1979, 78, 112),…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KK005-081
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