| Description |
Griffinstown House, is a three-bay two-storey over a basement neoclassical house, built about 1820, with projecting Greek Ionic entrance porch (boi). It is located to the west of Kinnegad and was built for the Fetherstonhaugh family. O’Brien writes that Andrew Ennis bough Griffinstown about 1800 from the Smyths. There must have been an earlier house as the Taylor and Skinner maps of the 1770s and Leet in 1814 both record Smyths at Griffinstown. Andrew Ennis leased it to the Fetherstonhaughs and family members were resident in 1837 and at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) when the house was valued at £48 and held from John Ennis. William Napier Magill was in possession at the time of the censuses of 1901 and 1911. |
