Survey Data
Reg No
13313009
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical
Original Use
Gates/railings/walls
In Use As
Gates/railings/walls
Date
1730 - 1770
Coordinates
211446, 264026
Date Recorded
07/08/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Rubble limestone boundary wall, built c. 1750, having projecting rubble limestone piers (on square-plan) at irregular intervals along length. Now partially collapsed and covered in vegetation. Formerly associated with Mosstown House (now demolished), acting as the southern boundary wall of former deer park. Located to the northwest of Keenagh and to the north of the site of Mosstown House.
Appraisal
This now ruinous boundary wall was originally associated with Mosstown House, now demolished. It acted as the southern boundary wall of a deer park associated with this house. Few structures on the Mosstown estate survive but those still extant, including the remaining sections of the demesne wall, form an interesting group in the landscape and are an important part of the social and architectural heritage of the Keenagh area. Mosstown House was the seat of Viscount Newcomen in the late-seventeenth century and was subsequently the home of the Kingston family (home of Alexander Kingston by 1791). It later passed, by inheritance, into the ownership of the Murray family (c. 1914). Demolished c. 1962.