Mount Falcon — Mountfalcon

Situated in gently rolling terrain. An early eighteenth-century, five-bay, two-storey with attic over basement house (TN010-111001) with a projecting T to the rear. The main entrance, with steps up to it, is centrally placed in the W façade. It has a Gibbsian surround with scrolls supporting a pediment. The attic storey is pedimented and bears an inscription 'RMF' which refers to Richard and Maria Faulkner and is dated 1720. It is described by Craig (1972, 50, 52) as 'an open-bed pediment, with round-headed window in the centre, flanked by paterae and a blind balustrade in the attic, surmounted by a cornice with balls at the ends and on the pediment. The pediment is emphasised by volutes at either side. Unfortunately the house was rendered in the nineteenth century, when stucco cornices were added to the windows, and a pediment to the central first-floor window'. The house is single pile and the main block is divided into three, with a central staircase and room to either side; there is another room to the rear in the projecting T. In the rear, E wall of the T-projection there are remains of two moulded string-courses, the lower is forming the lintel of a first-floor window while the upper section is c. 1m above this between the first and second floor. Most of the windows at the rear have been altered. There is a well-built courtyard to the rear enclosed by a high stone wall. One of the outbuildings on the S side has a large fireplace with brick oven. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008