Knapton, Abbeyleix, Co Laois – demolished 

Mark Bence-Jones. 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. 178. “(Pigott, Bt/PB 1970; Vesey, de Vesci, V/PB) A small house of ca 1773 with good neo-Classical interior decoration built onto an older structure. Now demolished.” 

Listed in Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland by The Knight of Glin, David J. Griffin and Nicholas K. Robinson, published by The Irish Architectural Archive and The Irish Georgian Society, 1988.

…In 1814 the seat of Mrs. Morton. Demolished.

See family tree Major General Thomas Pigott, b. 1734