Yeomanstown, Naas, Co Kildare 

Yeomanstown, Naas, Co Kildare 

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. 288. “(Mansfield/IFR; Moore, sub McCalmont/IFR) An early C18 double gable-ended house of exceptional quality, originally belonging to a branch of the Eustace family. Of two storeys, with an attic in the high-pitched roof lit by windows in the gable-ends. Five bay entrance fron with large floating pediment containing an oculus; the windows being grouped closely together leaving wide solid corners. Heads of windows in upper storey have undulating arrises. Round-headed dorrway with blocking; deep wooden bracket cornice under roof; partly curvilinear endgables. Plain and asymmetrical garden front. the house is built of brick, but has been rendered. Both the entrance and garden fronts face along straight avenues of trees. Inherited by John Mansfield later C18. Subsequently sold to the Gill family, now the home of Mr A.L. Moore and Mrs Moore (nee Gill).  

Eliza (1765-1795), daughter and heiress of Walter Woulfe of Rathgormack, Co. Waterford, married John Mansfield (1753-1817) Esq., of Yeomanstown in Co. Kildare, and of Ballinamuntina in Co. Waterford, by John Comerford. Courtesy Fonsie Mealy July 2018
Walter Woulfe of Rathgormac in the County Waterford, the father of Eliza Woulfe, who married John Mansfield of Yeomanstown, Kildare, subsequently housed at Morristown Lattin, by John Comerford, courtesy Fonsie Mealy Aug 2023.

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