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Letter House

House, 17th century

What is recorded here

Two storey high gable ended house with high pitched roof and rendered walls with two large protruding chimney stacks at rear of house. According to local information facade of house was rebuilt in the 19th-century. Probable late 17th century house with 19th-century facade. Letter was in the possession of the Adair family in the 17th centuryand later passed into the ownership of the Manifold family the latter may have been responsible for building Letter House (Feehan 1979, 143) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record OF037-019

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  • Jonathan Thacker, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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