Ballydavid, Woodstown, Co Waterford
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.
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p. 290. “(Dawnay sub Downe, V/PB) A house of late-Georgian appearance, consisting of a two storey three bay centre joined by single-storey two bay links to two storey one bay wings extending back. Regency iron verandah along the whole centre block.”
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Ballydavid House, Passage East, is given as the address of William Armstrong, JP, in the 1870s. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation, this house was held in fee by Francis O’Beirne and valued at over £50. In 1814 Leet refers to Balydavid as the seat of Michael Kennedy. The 1945 ITA survey noted it as the residence of Lady Armstrong but formerly associated with the Armstrong and Paul families. There is still an extant house at the site.
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Detached nine-bay single- and two-storey house, c.1800, on a Palladian plan retaining original aspect comprising three-bay two-storey main block with two-bay single-storey flanking recessed lateral wings, and single-bay two-storey lower projecting terminating pavilion blocks. Hipped slate roofs (pitched to wings) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on overhanging timber eaves. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, and 6/6 timber sash windows. Set back from road in own grounds with landscaped grounds to site. (ii) Gateway, c.1800, to east comprising pair of painted rendered piers with finials, wrought iron double gates, painted rendered curved flanking walls, and painted rendered terminating piers having rendered capping.
Appraisal
A well-composed substantial house, formally arranged on a Palladian plan, retaining most of its original form and fabric, and which forms an important element of the architectural heritage of County Waterford.
https://longwaytotipperary.ul.ie/armstrongs/captain-armstrong/p6a_10_19b/
Published June 17, 2014 at 526 × 400 in Captain Marcus Beresford Armstrong.
Ballydavid House, County Waterford
Description: Black and white snapshot of Ballydavid House, Woodstown, County Waterford, birthplace of Captain M. B. Armstrong.
Date: 1913
Source: Armstrong Collection
Identifier: P6A/10, 19B
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