EDWARD LAW

KILKENNY HISTORY

MISCELLANEOUS HOUSES

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ULLARD.
1685 Edmond Ryan, Ullard [I Wills]
1993 Ullard, five bay two storey rendered house, dated 1690, 3 miles NNE of ?. 19.S.73.48. [KK Dev Plan]
 
UPPER DANVILLE.
28.9.1811 To let, house of Upper Danville occupied by Mr James Pringle, 1 mile of Kilkenny on Bennettsbridge Road. [LJ]
29.8.1812 To let, house of Upper Danville now held by Mr M'Cann. [LJ]
 
UPPERCOURT, Upperwood Demesne, parish of Freshford, barony of Crannagh.
5.1.1749 Ann Ryves of Upper Court, Co. Kilkenny. [Mar Lic]
24.10.1770 Sir William Evans Morres, Bart., Upper Court. [FLJ]
9.2.1771 Sir William Evans Morres, Bart., Uppercourt. [FLJ]
6.2.1772 Wood & demesne of Uppercourt belonging to Lady Morres. [FLJ]
7.7.1773 Sir William Evan Morres Bart., Upper Court. [FLJ]
4.10.1786 Lady Morres, Uppercourt. [FLJ]
28.10.1786 Sir William Morres, Bart., Uppercourt. [FLJ]
4.2.1801 Lady Morres, Upper Court. [FLJ]
1801 Sir Wm. Morres has erected a new and handsome house at Uppercourt, the portico of which consists of pillars, each a single block of fine limestone, raised on his demesne. [Tighe]
29.9.1802 Sir William Morres, Bart., Uppercourt. [LJ]
4.9.1805 W R Morres, Uppercourt. [LJ]
27.12.1806 Sir William Morres, Bart., Uppercourt. [LJ]
30.4.1808 Sir William Morres, Bart., Upper Court. [LJnl]
27.5.1840 Wm deMontmorency, Upperwood. [Jnl]
26.6.1847 The Manor & estate of Upper Wood or Upper Court, manorial rights & tolls of town of Freshford. 200 acres, perfect repair producing rents of £2,700 pa. [Jnl]
10.1.1849 Mrs Bryan of Jenkinstown, now of Uppercourt. [Jnl]
4.7.1835 William de Montmorency, Upperwood, Freshford. [Mod]
2.7.1836 Wm de Montmorency of Upperwood. [Mod]
1837 Wm de Montmorency. [Mod 16.12.1837]
1876 Thomas Eyre, Uppercourt, Freshford, 1,909a. [Land]
1884 Freshford: Mr Eyre's residence on the hill-side, overlooking the village, is one of the most charmingly situated in Irekand, but the owner prefers to live in England. For nearly ten years a few servants have had the mansion entirely to themselves. [Bassett]
1908 Stanislaus Thomas Eyre Esq., Upper Court. [KAS deed C5]
1969 Known locally as Upper Court. The court was an episcopal pre-reformation residence called “the Castle” –levelled in early C19th. An old ice house. [O’Kelly]
1993 Uppercourt, five bays by four, two storeys to the cornice with an attic storey and further cornice, built between 1798 and 1820 with later additions, Freshford. 18.S.40.63. [KK Dev Plan]
 
URLINGFORD CASTLE, parish of Urlingford, barony of Galmoy.
1969 The ruined castle was built by the Lords Mountgarret in C16th. [O’Kelly]
 

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VERMONT COTTAGE.
30.5.1827 To let, Vermont Cottage & 25a, 1½ m of Knocktopher, 1½ m of Stoneyford & 8 of Kilkenny, apply William Izod esq., Chapel Izod House. [Mod]
 
VICARSFIELD.
1873 Rev S C Foot, Vicarsfield. [Mod 3.5.1873]
1873 Simon C Foot, Clerk, Vicarsfield (Protestant). [Mod 6.12.1873]
 
VIEWMOUNT.
3.10.1807 John Flood Esq., Viewmount. [LJ]
30.4.1808 John Flood, Viewmount. [LJ]
1.4.1829 John Flood Esq., Viewmount. [Mod]
1830 John Flood, 2nd son of John, Viewmount, Co Kilkenny & Ann Brush. B 1.12.1809, ed TCD. [Kings]
1837 John Flood jnr, Viewmount. [Mod 16.12.1837]
17.2.1838 John Flood Newmount [Viewmount?] [KJnl]
18.11.1843 John Flood, Viewmount. [Jnl]
18.11.1843 Henry Flood, View Mount. [Jnl]
23.8.1845 John Flood, Viewmount. [Mod]
1856 John Flood Esq., View Mount, Whitehall. [Thom]
1863 John Flood Esq., Viewmount. [Mod 10.1.1863]
1867 John Flood, Viewmount. [Will]
1870 Henry Flood Esq., Viewmount, Whitehall. [Slater]
1873 Mr Flood, Viewmount. [Mod 25.10.1873]
1876 John Flood, Viewmount. [Will]
1876 Henry Flood, Viewmount, Gowran, 1,137a. [Land]
1876 Henry Flood, Viewmount, Whitehall. [Will]
1876 Reps of John Flood, Viewmount, Gowran, 864a. [Land]
1879 John Flood, Viewmount. [Will]
 
VIOLET HILL, Co. KILKENNY.
5.10.1808 Peter Healy, Violet Hill, game licence. [LJ]
1.12.1827 Gorges Hely, Violet Hill, Johnstown. [Mod]
1837 William Hely, 4th son of George Hely dec'd., Violet Hill, Co. Kilkenny. [Kings Inns]
4.8.1841 Gorges Hely, Violet Hill. [Mod]
1.6.1842 Gorges Hely Esq., of Violet Hill near Johnstown died in fire there. [Mod]
14.10.1843 Died John Hely Esq., at Ellen Ville, Johnstown, 3rd son of Gorges Hely Esq., of Violet Hill, Co Kilkenny. [Jnl]
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