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House in Swiftsheath

House, 17th century

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Described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage as a, 'detached seven-bay two-storey Classical-style country house over basement, built c.1750, but incorporating fabric of earlier house dated 1651. Comprises five-bay two-storey recessed section, middle bays pedimented, fronted by single-bay single-storey…

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Described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage as a, 'detached seven-bay two-storey Classical-style country house over basement, built c.1750, but incorporating fabric of earlier house dated 1651. Comprises five-bay two-storey recessed section, middle bays pedimented, fronted by single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch; seven-bay two-storey garden front to south having three-bay single-storey return to southeast. Extensively renovated c.1850' (http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KK&regno=12401002). The front W facing facade has composite pilasters supporting a frieze, with a cut limestone date-stone of A. D. 1651 incorporated in the frieze above the second pilaster from the recessed N end. The A. D. is inscribed in Cló Gaelach (Gaelic script). Bence-Jones (1978, 269) states that the house, 'was the boyhood home of Dean [Jonathan] Swift [1667-1745], who was brought up here by his uncle, Godwin Swift, Attorney-General to the Duke of Ormonde for the County Palatine of Tipperary'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KK010-075001

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