placenamesTinode
Tigh an Fhóid
Estate buildings by Caldbeck and Ashlin, a distinctive steward’s house and June Blake’s garden show successive uses of Tinode’s landscape.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Tigh an Fhóid · Irish · main form · validated name
- Tinode · English · main form
Place & story
The Cogan house and farm buildings
William Henry Ford Cogan commissioned a new granite house at Tinode from architect William Francis Caldbeck. The Irish Architectural Archive records the work between 1859 and 1864, including a billiard room, stables and offices, with R. Farrell as builder. A later entry identifies new farm buildings by George Coppinger Ashlin in 1870, constructed by J. and W. Beckett. The records distinguish successive architectural commissions within the estate. [2]
The former steward’s house
The architectural inventory dates the smaller house associated with the farmyard to about 1870 and cautiously identifies its original use as a farm manager’s residence. Rubble walls are enlivened by coloured brick dressings and granite details. Its unusual chimney incorporates a bellcote. A later extension altered the original L-shaped plan, but sash windows, shaped bargeboards and a pointed entrance retain much of the building’s nineteenth-century character. [3]
June Blake’s garden
June Blake began growing plants from seed and developing a nursery at Tinode around 2003. As the garden expanded, the nursery moved into the old farmyard. Her design incorporated a rediscovered stone wall beside a reflecting pool, with raised beds and paths arranged around the house. Further discoveries of buried cobbles prompted changes to the layout, including steel-edged planting beds, making the site’s earlier fabric part of the developing garden. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Wicklow
- Barony
- Talbotstown Lower
- Civil parish
- Kilbride
- Within
- Tinode
- Coordinates
- 53.21217, -6.48344
- Logainm ID
- 1412692 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Tinode. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Tinode House: architectural works · Irish Architectural Archive
- Tinode House, former worker’s house, NIAH16400102 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- The development of June Blake’s Garden · June Blake
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-08-24. How this page was prepared.