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House: Whitfield Court
| Estate(s): | ||
| Property/House name: | Whitfield Court | |
| Description: | In 1850 William Christmas held Whitfield in fee when it was valued at £49. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage indicates the house was built by him between 1820-1849, replacing an earlier house. Local sources indicate that this earlier house was in the townland of Whitfield and the name was transferred to the existing house when it was built in the adjacent townland of Dooneen. Leet records the earlier property as the seat of Thomas Christmas in 1814. Smith, writing in 1774, mentions the house as "an elegent seat belonging to Thomas Christmas, formerly a Dobbyn castle". In 1786 Wilson refers to Whitfield as the seat of William Christmas. The nineteenth century house is still extant but no longer occupied. | |
| Townland: | Dooneen | |
| Civil Parish: | Kilmeadan | |
| Poor Law Union: | Waterford | |
| DED: | Reisk 73 | |
| Barony: | Middlethird | |
| County: | Waterford | |
| OS Sheet Number: | 17 | |
| OSI Grid Reference: | S532086 | |
| Latitude / Longitude: |
52.22669 -7.22135 [ Google Earth ] [ Google Maps ] | |
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Images
Avenue to original Whitfield house (photograph courtesy of Peadar Ó Gríofa)
Gateway and lodge at Whitfield Court (www.buildingsofireland.ie)
Whitfield Court (www.buildingsofireland.ie)
Email: info@landedestates.ie.
Landed Estates Database, 1.2.7b2, 18 May 2011, Phase II beta