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Rectory in Edgeworthstown

House, 18th/19th century

What is recorded here

Early 18th-century, three-storey, gable-ended house. Access to the upper floor is via a dog-leg projecting staircase at the back (NW) of the house. This was the birthplace of Henry Essex Edgeworth, better known as Abbe Edgeworth de Fermont, who attended Louis XVI on the scaffold. (Bence-Jones 1978, 119) Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LF015-076

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