What is recorded here
A house is depicted on the Down Survey barony map (1656-8) of Forth barony at Yoletown (24). According to the Book of Survey and Distribution (1660s) Nicholas Stafford of Ballymacane castle (WX053-005----) owned 46 acres here in 1640, as part of the manor of Ballymacane (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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