What is recorded here

Unlocated dovecote in Ballinakill, County Laois, recorded in 1641 inside the manor of Gallenridgeway alias Balinekill. It stood among a large mansion, one hundred messuages, two watermills, a fulling mill, an iron-mill, courts, fairs and markets. The dovecote may have fed that whole busy place, its pigeons returning through lanes where hammers rang and cloth was beaten clean.

Unlocated dovecote within the seventeenth century town of Ballinakill that was described in 1641 as the manor of Gallenridgeway alias Balinekill, containing a large mansion or castle, one hundred messuages, a dovecot, two watermills, a fulling mill, an iron-mill, courts leet and baron, three fairs and two markets in the town (Ir Rec Comm 1826, com. Regine : 16 Car I). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

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