House

On the Down Survey (1655-6) Parish map of Coolerahin, there is a house with a chimney drawn in ‘Foukrath’townland. The terrier accompanying the map records, ‘There is a Castle in Repaire in Fouksrath with some Cabbins’, with the proprietor listed as ‘Phillip Pursall Ir[ish] Pa[pist]’. The precise location of this house within the townland is unknown but it may be the house referred to by Wright (1885-6, 436) as the manor house. According to Wright (ibid.), 'There are also considerable remains of a large building, now forming part of the stable and garden walls, which a hundred years ago were much more perfect, and which my father used to say were then evidently the ruins of a large manor-house or court. On the side of the archway, which now leads to the stables out of the bawn, is a small disroofed chamber'. This appears to refer to a building N of the gateway in the N wall. The gateway itself appears to predate the present bawn (KK010-056007-) as it is closed from outside the bawn wall. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 May 2019