What is recorded here
In a demesne, overlooking Lough Arrow to the S. The present early 19th-century Ballindoon House (Bence-Jones 1988, 18) is reputed to be on the site of a 17th-century house (SL034-213----) (pers. comm. M. A. Timoney). That house may have been the small rectangular structure (roughly on the site of the present house)…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL034-253
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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