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vernacular architecture bibliogrpahy

Vernacular ArchitectureBibliography (mostly from IPMAG bibliography)

Books

Dublin Heritage Group 1993 Vernacular Buildings of East Fingal. Dublin.

Evans, E.E. 1957 Irish Folkways. Routledge and Keegan Paul, London.

Evans, E.E. 1942 Irish Heritage. Dundalgan Press, Dundalk.

Fitzsimmons, J. 1990 Thatched Houses of Meath. Kells.

Gailey, A. 1984 Rural Houses of the North of Ireland. John Donald, Edinburgh.

Heritage Council 2002 Policy Paper on Irish Thatched Roofs and the National Heritage. Heritage Council, Kilkenny.

Heritage Council 1999 Irish Thatched Roofs- Is Their Future a Thing of the Past? Heritage Council, Kilkenny.

Kingston, B. 1990 Achill island. The Deserted Village at Slievemore. Castlebar.

Mc Afee, P. 1997 Irish Stone Walls. O’Brien Press.

Mc Donald, F. & Doyle, P. 1997 Ireland's Earthen Houses. A. and A. Farmar, Dublin.

Mc Donald, T. 1995 The Deserted village at Slievemore.

Ní Fhloinn, B. and Dennison, G. (Eds) 1994 Traditional Architecture in Ireland and its role in Rural Development and Tourism. UCD.

Ó Danachair, C. 1975 Ireland’s Vernacular Architecture. Cork.

O’ Reilly, B 2004 Living under thatch- vernacular architecture in County Offaly. Mercier Press, Cork.

Reeners, R. (ed) 2003 A Wexford Farmstead- the conservation of an 18th-century farmstead in County Wexford. Heritage Council, Kilkenny.

Shraffrey, P. and Shraffrey, M. 1985 Irish Countryside Buildings. Dublin: O’Brien Press.

Sleeman, M. 2004 Thatched Houses of County Cork: A Survey by Mary Sleeman for the Heritage Unit. Cork County Council.

Symmons, C and Harkin, S. 2004 The Disappearing Irish Cottage: a case-study of north Donegal. Wordwell, Bray.

Articles:

Aalen, F.H.A. 1994 ‘Vernacular Rural Dwellings of the Wicklow Mountains’ in Hannigan, K. & Nolan, W. (Eds), Wicklow History and Society. Geography Publications, Dublin.

Aalen, F.H.A. 1970 ‘The House Types of Gola Island, Co. Donegal, Folk Life Vol. 8 (1970), 32-44.

Anon 1997 ‘Before brick, before cement, there were Ireland’s Earthen Houses: A Photographic Feature’, Archaeology Ireland Vol 11: No. 2, Issue 40, 20- 21.

Campbell, A. 1938 ‘Notes on the Irish House. II.’, Folk-Liv No. 2 (1938), 173-196.

Campbell, A. 1937 ‘Notes on the Irish House’, Folk-Liv No. 2/3 (1937), 205-234.

Campbell, A. 1935 ‘Irish Fields and Houses’, Béaloideas V (1935)

Clutterbuck, R. 2005 ‘Excavation of a Cottier’s Cabin at Cookstown, Co. Meath’, IPMAG Newsletter, Vol. 4, 2005, 1-2.

Conlon T.P. (& note by H.G. Leask) 1945 ‘Old timbered house in Drogheda (recently the Imperial Hotel)’, CLAHJ volume XI number 1 (1945), 41-42.

Conway, M. 1959 ‘The study of our local vernacular’, CLAHJ volume XIV number 3 (1959), 170-178.

Evans, E.E. 1939 ‘Donegal Survivals’, Antiquity 50 (1939), 209-220.

FfOlliott, R. 1972 ‘Cottages and Farmhouses’, The Irish Ancestor 1, 30-35.

Gailey, A. 1987 ‘Changes in Irish rural housing 1600-1900’ in O’ Flanagan, P., Ferguson, P. and Whelan, K. (Eds), Rural Ireland 1600-1900: Modernisation and Change. Cork Universty Press, Cork, 86-103.

Gailey, A. 1981 ‘Traditional houses at Riasc’, JKAHS 14 (1981), 94-111.

Gailey, A. 1981 ‘Three houses with outshot in North Louth and South Armagh’, CLAHJ volume XX number 1 (1981), 3-9.

Gailey, A. 1979 ‘Vernacular Housing in North West Ulster’ in Rowan A., The Buildings of Ireland, North West Ulster. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

Gailey, A. 1976 ‘The houses of the rural poor in nineteenth century Ulster’, Ulster Folklife xxii (1976), 34-57.

Gailey, A. 1976 ‘Some developments and adaptions of traditional house types’ in Ó Danachair, C. (Ed.), Folk and Farm: Essays in honour of A.T. Lucas. Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Dublin, 56-71.

Granlund, J. 1976 ‘Coumeenoole, Dunquin and other townlands’ in Ó Danachair, C. (Ed.), Folk and Farm: Essays in honour of A.T. Lucas. Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Dublin, 72-89.

Kelly, M. 1941 ‘Some wooden houses of Drogheda’, CLAHJ volume X number 1 (1941), 67-69.

Lucas, A.T. 1982 ‘Contributions to the study of the Irish house: smokehole and chimney’, in Gailey, A. and Ó hÓgain, D. (Eds), Gold under the Furze: Studies in Folk Tradition Presented to Caoimhín Ó Danachair . Glendale Press, Dublin, 50-66.

Lucas, A.T. 1971 ‘A Straw Roof Lining at Stradbally, Co. Wexford’, JCHAS Vol 76 (1971), 81-83.

Lucas, A.T. 1970 ‘Contributions to the history of the Irish House: A possible ancestry of the Bed-Outshot (Cúilteach)’, Folk Life Vol. 8 (1970), 81-98.

Lucas, A.T. 1956 ‘Wattle and straw mat doors in Ireland’, Studia Ethnographica Upsaliensia, XI (1956), 29.

Lysaght, P. 1994 ‘Vernacular Rural Dwellings in Ireland’, in Ní Fhloinn, B. and Dennison, G. (eds), Traditional Architecture in Ireland and its role in Rural Development and Tourism. UCD.

McCourt, D. 1972 ‘Roof-timbering techniques in Ulster: a classification’, Folk Life Vol. 10 (1972), 118-130.

McCourt, D. 1965 ‘Some cruck-framed buildings in Donegal and Derry’, Ulster Folklife xi (1965), 39-50.

McCourt, D. and Evans, D. 1972 ‘A Seventeenth Century Farmhouse at Liffock, Co. Londonderry’, Ulster J. Archaeol., Vol 35 (1972), 48-56

Desmond McCourt – 1972 'Roof Timbering in Ulster' in Folklife , Vol 10.

McDonald, T. 1998 ‘The deserted village, Slievemore, Achill Island, Co. Mayo, Ireland’, Cathair Na Mart, No. 18. (1998), 77-98.

McDonald, T. 1998 ‘The Deserted Village Slievemore, Achill Island, Co.Mayo, Ireland’, International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 2.2, 73-112.

Mullane, F. 2000 ‘Vernacular Architecture’, in Buttimer, N. et al (eds) The Heritage of Ireland. Cork: Collins Press, 71-9.

Ó Danachair, C. 1972 ‘Traditional forms of the dwelling house in Ireland’, JRSAI Vol.102 (1972), 77-96.

Ó Danachair, C. 1967 ‘The bothán scóir’ in Rynne, E. (Ed.), North Munster Studies: Essays in Commemmoration of Monsignor Michael Moloney . Thomond Archaeological Society, Limerick, 489-498.

Ó Danachair, C. 1964 ‘The combined byre-and-dwelling in Ireland’, Folklife ii (1964), 58-75.

Ó Danachair, C. 1957 ‘Materials and methods in Irish traditional building’, JRSAI Vol. LXXXVII (1957), Part I, 61-74.

Ó Danachair, C. 1956 ‘Irish Farmyard Types’, Studia Ethnographica Uppsaliensis XI (1956), 6-15.

Ó Danachair, C. 1955-56 ‘The Bed Outshot in Ireland’, Folkliv No. 19-20 (1955-56), 26-31.

Ó Danachair, C. 1946 ‘Health and Chimney in the Irish House’, Béaloideas 16 (1946), 91-104.

Ó Danachair, C. 1946 ‘Traditional houses of Co. Limerick’, North Munster Antiquarian Journal 5, 18-32.

Ó Floinn, B. 1989 ‘A Future for Irish Vernacular Architecture?’, Archaeology Ireland Vol 3: No. 4, 147- 151.

O’ Hare, P. 1993 ‘A brief survey of the typical vernacular housing of a portion of East Kerry’ JKAHS 26 (1993), 5-72.

Ó Mórdha, S.P. 1958 ‘An old type of country house’, Clogher Record Vol 2: 2, 265-266.

Orser, C. E. 2010. Three 19th-Century House Sites in Rural Ireland. Post-Medieval Archaeology 44:81-104.

Robinson ‘Vernacular housing in Ulster in the seventeenth century’, Ulster Folklife, 25, 1 - 28.

Shaffrey, P. 1994 ‘The Future of Traditional Architecture- Planning Implications’, in Ní Fhloinn, B. and Dennison, G. (Eds), Traditional Architecture in Ireland and its role in Rural Development and Tourism. UCD.

Siggins, A. 1985 ‘Two examples of wattle ceiling from houses in Co. Roscommon’, Old Athlone Soc. Jn., Vol II No. 6 (1985), 124-132.

O' Reilly, B. 1991 'The vernacular architecture of north Co. Dublin', Archaeology Ireland. Vol 5: No. 2. Issue No. 16, Summer 1991, 24- 26.

O’ Reilly, B. 1990 ‘Staple Thatching in County Dublin’, Sinsear the Folklore Journal 6, 13-19.

Ó Súilleabháin, S. 1976 ‘Beneath the Poulaphouca Resevoir’ in Ó Danachair, C. (Ed.), Folk and Farm: Essays in honour of A.T. Lucas. Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Dublin, 200-207.

O’ Sullivan, J.C. 1969-1975 ‘Wickerwork partition in an Athlone house’, Old Athlone Soc. Jn., Vol I, 232-233.

Robinson, P. 1985 ‘From thatch to slate: innovations in roof covering materials for traditional houses in Ulster’, Ulster Folklife 31, 21-23.

Robinson, P. 1982 ‘Further cruck houses in South Antrim: problems of culture-historical interpretation’, JRSAI Vol.112 (1982), 101-111. Robinson, P.. 1979.

Sleeman, M., Byrne, E. and Walsh, ? 1997 ‘The thatched mansion at Ballyshehan, Mallow’, Mallow Field Club Journal 16, 143- 148.

Symmons, C and Harkin, S. 2004 The Disappearing Irish Cottage: a case-study of north Donegal. Wordwell, Bray.

Williams, E. 1976 ‘Scollop Thatch in Co. Mayo’, Folk Life Vol. 14 (1976), 99-100.

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17th Century Demesne Chapel

Location of the chapel on the first edition OS map where it is marked 'Ruin'.

The demesne chapel at Strokestown is located to the south west of the house, immediately west of the walled gardens. It was built in the latter half of the 17th century around the same time as the first house.

The chapel is rectangular in plan; the walls are constructed from limestone rubble and are clay bonded. There is a small tracery window of uncertain date in the eastern gable wall and a probable bell cote on the apex of the western gable.

The chapel is the burial place of Captain Mahon and his wife Magdalen Mahon nee French. A fine mural altar monument was erected in their memories on the east wall of the chapel by their eldest son John Mahon in 1686.

The chapel was marked 'Ruin' on the first edition OS map. Suggesting that it had been out of use for some time by 1837-42.

Sometime between c.1837-42 and 1888-1913*, when the 25 inch O.S. map was surveyed the 17th century chapel was converted into a mausoleum. The mausoleum structure occupies western two-thirds of the chapel blocking off access to the eastern part with its 17th century funerary monument. The entrance to the mausoleum is in the southern wall of the chapel, probably where the original chapel doorway stood.

(* I'm not sure when exactly the Roscommon maps were surveyed)



The chapel is marked 'Mausoleum' on the 25 inch map.


Looking East: Note what appears to be a bell cote under the ivy on the northern gable.


17th century mural altar tomb located to north of the alter on east gable of the chapel.



UNDER THIS MONUMENT LIE THE BODIES OF CAPTAIN NICHOLAS MAHON OF STROKESTOWN WHO DYED THE 10TH OF OCTOBER 1680 IN THE 60TH YEAR OF HIS AGE AND OF HIS DEARLY BELOVED WIFE MAGDALEN MAHON ALIAS FRENCH WHO DYED THE 13TH OF MARCH 1683 IN THE 50TH YEAR OF HER AGE IN WHOSE MEMORIES THEIR ELDEST SON JOHN MAHON OF STROKESTOWN ESQ CAUSED THIS MONUMENT TO BE ERECTED ANNO DOMI 1686


Window in eastern gable of the chapel.


Entrance to later19th century mausoleum in the south wall of the chapel.

Ha-ha or sunken wall designed to create barrier while providing an unbroken view of the demesne.

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Museum Floor Plan

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