placenamesFardrum
Fardroim
Fardrum House preserves an early nineteenth-century residence beside a pair of limestone outbuildings. Valuation records identify the people associated with the house in the following decades.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Fardroim · Irish · main form · validated name
- Fardrum · English · main form
Place & story
A carefully designed entrance
The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage dates Fardrum House to about 1825. The three-bay residence stands over a basement and has a hipped slate roof. Its most elaborate feature is the entrance: four slender Ionic columns support a fluted lintel around leaded doors, sidelights and a fanlight. Stone steps lead up to this doorway. The contrast between the small house's restrained form and its decorative entrance is central to the inventory's appraisal. [2]
The buildings behind the house
Two substantial outbuildings stand behind Fardrum House, also dated to about 1825. Both are two storeys high and built in rubble limestone, with carriage arches below and small openings above. One retains a pitched slate roof; the other is whitewashed and has a hipped corrugated roof. The inventory records their irregular openings and practical masonry construction, which give the rear group a different character from the formal frontage of the residence. [3]
Eliza Mathews and the Ennis property
Landed Estates research places Fardrum House in Kilcleagh parish and identifies it on the first-edition Ordnance Survey map. In Griffith's Valuation, published for the area in 1854, Eliza Mathews occupied the house under John Ennis. The recorded value was £12. The university's account also names the Robinson and Campbell families among later occupants, tracing continued domestic use beyond the residence's early nineteenth-century construction. [4]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Fardrum. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Fardrum House, NIAH15402904 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Fardrum House outbuildings, NIAH15402905 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Fardrum House, property5765 · Landed Estates, University of Galway
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