Saint Mogue's Rectory

Detached three-bay two-storey over part raised basement Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland glebe house, built 1830, on a rectangular plan. Occupied, 1911. Sold, ----. Set in landscaped grounds.

A glebe house erected with financial support from the Board of First Fruits (fl. 1711-1833) representing an integral component of the early nineteenth-century built heritage of south County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition, one rooted firmly in the contemporary late Georgian fashion, confirmed by such attributes as the deliberate alignment maximising on panoramic vistas overlooking gently rolling grounds; the compact rectilinear plan form centred on a restrained doorcase demonstrating good quality workmanship; and the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression. Having been reasonably well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding much of the character or integrity of a glebe house having historic connections with the Fethard parish Church of Ireland clergy including Reverend Charles William Doyne (d. 1856; Lewis 1837 I, 628); Reverend Edmund Charles Pendleton (1800-46) '[whose] removal in two brief years by fever contracted in their service has filled the Parish with sorrow' (cf. 15619004); Reverend Robert McKee (----; cf. 15619004); Reverend Thomas Waring Kennedy (1857-1915), 'Clerk formerly of The Rectory Fethard and late of The Rectory Camolin' (Calendars of Wills and Administrations 1915, 359; cf. 15609015; 15701226); Reverend James Richard Kellett (1871-1901), 'Clerk [who died at] The Rectory Fethard County Wexford' (Calendars of Wills and Administrations 1901, 236); and Reverend William Frederick Archdall Ellison (1864-1936), amateur telescope maker and author of "The Amateur's Telescope" (1920).