What is recorded here

Abbeycartron’s fish-ponds belonged to Francis Angier, Earl of Longford, and supplied tench, carp, trout and roach beside orchards, groves and gardens. They were not mere rural decoration; they measured the estate’s wealth, taste and control over water. The barracks and houses of Longford town later covered the ponds, erasing their surface trace but leaving behind a buried layer of pleasure, labour and display.

Associated with a possible fortified house (LF013-062----). When describing the house in 1682, Nicholas Dowdall noted that Francis Angier, Earl of Longford, had improved the estate ‘by rebuilding an antient house of great resort that was there and adding returns to it beautified it rarely within, adorned the place with Groves Inclosures Orchards and most delightful Gardens [LF013-062002-] affording great variety of Trees and Flowers with most pleasant Fishponds and Canalls in which are Tench in great plenty, and Carp with store of Trout, Roach &c and hath built Stables and all other Office houses' (Gillespie and Moran 1991, 210). The military barracks and the surrounding houses of Longford town (LF013-026----) appear to have been built on the site of the fish-ponds and no visible surface traces survive. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 13 February 2013

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