placenamesRoadstown
Two architectural-survey records preserve evidence of Roadstown’s domestic buildings and farm outbuildings beside the Dunany coast.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Roadstown · English · main form
Place & story
The house of around 1840
A two-storey house at Roadstown, dated to around 1840 by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, retains early sash windows and part of its original rear return. Other sections of that return were raised to two storeys. A high crenellated stone wall connects the house to slate-roofed outbuildings. These surviving features record changes to a nineteenth-century home while preserving something of its earlier arrangement. [2]
Seagrave House
Nearby Seagrave House is dated to around 1850. Its narrow, four-bay front was later altered by a timber entrance porch placed off-centre, giving the building an asymmetrical appearance. The architectural survey notes surviving sash windows, bracketed roof eaves and a stone boundary wall with carefully shaped coping. Extensive stone outbuildings behind the house suggest a substantial farming establishment, although the survey does not identify its occupants. [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Roadstown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Roadstown, Dunany, inventory 13901904 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Seagrave House, Dunany, Roadstown, inventory 13901903 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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