What is recorded here

A house is depicted on the Down Survey barony map (1656-8) of Forth barony at Ring (8), which would have included Ringknock townland, in Tacumshin parish. According to the Book of Survey and Distribution (1660s) Nicholas Stafford of Ballmacane castle (WX053-005----) owned 55 acres here in 1640, and over 600 acres in Tacumshin parish (Simington 1953, 304-05). The precise location of this house is not known. See the attached section of the Down Survey barony map (N at right) reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 27 March, 2014

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