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Church. Single-nave med<strong>ie</strong>val parish church in Bodenstown twd,<br />

1/2 km east. Churchyard burial place of Theobald Wolfe Tone<br />

(1763-98), father of Irish republicanism.<br />

Church. Probable med<strong>ie</strong>val church in Waterstown/Castlekeeley<br />

twd, 1/4 km west.<br />

Classical House. Millicent, 1/4 km west in Millicent Demesne<br />

twd. A 7-bay Georgian house of 2 storeys over basement, with<br />

pedimented, break-front centre, set in riverside parkland.<br />

Bridge. Millicent Bridge, a six-arch structure, probably eighteenthcentury<br />

in date; superseded a ford located a little downstream.<br />

Classical house. Yeomanstown House 1 km. west in<br />

Yeomanstown twd. Early eighteenth-century 2-storey-with-attic, 5bay<br />

pedimented house of exceptional quality.<br />

Classical House. Blackhall, 1/2 km east in Blackhall twd. A 7-bay<br />

Georgian house of 2-storeys, the 3 centre bays being recessed; flat<br />

roof, surmounted by remarkable cupola. The seat of Theobald<br />

Wolfe, after whom Theobald Wolfe Tone was named, his family<br />

having been tenants on the estate. It was also the birthplace of Rev.<br />

Charles Wolfe (1791-1823), whose poem The burial of Sir John Moore<br />

has been widely anthologised. Now a well-maintained stud farm.<br />

Mill. Flour mill 1/4 km north at Carragh, Yeomanstown twd, the<br />

property of Henry Doyle in 1852. A mill was in existence here in<br />

1753.<br />

Aqueduct. Leinster aqueduct, built 1780; Impressive seven-arch<br />

stone structure, designed and built for the Grand Canal Company<br />

by Richard Evans, to carry the Grand Canal and its towpath for<br />

200m across <strong>Liffey</strong> in Waterstown twd.<br />

Bridge. Victoria Bridge in Morristown Lower. 1837<br />

Mill. Flour mill at Tankardstown, the property of Patrick<br />

Haughton in 1852; multi-storey structure now re-utilised as a<br />

guesthouse, entitled 'The Old Mill'; mill race, weir and mill wheel<br />

extant.<br />

Country house. Morristown Lattin 1/4 km south in Morristown<br />

Lower twd. A house originally of 1692, but with façade<br />

remodelled in Tudor-revival style in 1845 by the addition of three<br />

steeply pointed and pinnacled gables, or<strong>ie</strong>ls and a Tudor porch.<br />

The south wing, which was no more than a façade, appears to<br />

have been demolished.<br />

OFFICE OF PUBLIC WORKS ERM IRELAND<br />

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