What is recorded here

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

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