Burrenwood Cottage, County Down

Bence-Jones, Mark. A Guide to Irish Country Houses (originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978); Revised edition 1988 Constable and Company Ltd, London.

p. 50.  “(Hawkins-Magill, sub Hawkins/IFR; Meade, sub Clanwilliam, E/PB) A single-storey early C19 cottage ornee, originally thatched and rather similar to Derrymore, County Armagh; built ca. 1820 by Gen Hon Robert Meade, and having, as one of two wings which extend back from it on either side of a narrow open-ended court, an earlier cottage built by his mother, Theodosia Hawkins-Magill, Countess of Clanwilliam, from whom he inherited the property. Lady Clanwilliam’s cottage is said to have been built for her in six weeks, as a stopping place on the road south from her home, Gill Hall, where there was an epidemic at Rathfriland, where she normally stayed. The front of the 1820 cottage has a doorway surmounted by a small dormer-gable, between two Wyatt windows. The roof has wide eaves supported by logs to form a rustic verandah or colonnade.”    

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