Kilfera, Kilkenny, Co Kilkenny 

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. 167. “(Stopford, sub Courtown, E/PB) A long low house in early C19 cottage ornee style, built onto an old tower and with a Regency ironwork veranda at one end. The drawing rom has a large Gothic doorway opening onto this veranda, which frames a Reptonian landscape of sweeping lawn, river and woods. The seat of the Hunt family; recently the home of Mr Montagu and Mrs Stopford (nee Hunt)” 

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Possibly having origins dating back to at least the mid to late seventeenth century as suggested by the position abutting a medieval tower house (pre-1647), thereby representing a site of considerable archaeological potential a middle-size house represents an important element of the early nineteenth-century domestic architectural heritage of County Kilkenny having historic associations with the Izod, the Ryan, the Davis, the Hunt, the Purcell, the Helsham, and the Stopford (Montagu-Stopford) families. Alongside a small-scale contemporary (c.1800) counterpart at Kilfane House (see 12402845/KK-28-45) the house is distinguished by the attributes identifying a Regency-period cottage orné style.