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Ballinakill House Ballinakill Ballinakill was occupied by the Normans and in 1210 King John, on his trip to Ireland is said to have stopped at the "land of the Thomas Fitzanthony" at Ballinakill (or Ballymackylle). After the Norman Invasion the powerful Dobbyn (or Dobbin) family settled in Waterford Ballinakill House Ballinakill House, which overlooks the river Suir and Little Island became the seat of the Dobbyn family until it was sold in 1788 to Nicholas Power, his son, Nicholas Mahon-Power lived in Ballinakill until he acquired the nearby Faithlegg House in 1819. The house was bought by another branch of the Dobbyns and was inherited by Mrs Patrica Gossip. Ballinakill is a two storey late 17th or early 18th century house and incorporated an old tower house not visible from the outside - the house has spectacular views of the Waterford Harbour. It is described in Egan's 1894 Directory as "close to the Water's edge rising as if from the rock, its quaint appearance enshrouded in trees denoting a romantic home" (551). Images from the National inventory of Architectural Heritage Click here Royal Visitors It is said that after his defeat at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 James II stayed in Ballinakill house for a night before making his way to France. King's Channel - the deep water separating Little Island from the mainland of Co. Waterford is supposed to be named after him. In June of 1858 H.R.H. Prince Albert on the last day of his visit to Waterford called in to Ballinakill House on his way back from Duncannon, which was then the residence of Captain Power. The rank of the visitor was unknown to the family although they entertained him and his party well and the Prince thanked them and entered their addresses in his tablet (Waterford News 26 June 1908). Further Information A Guide to Irish Country Houses Mark Bence-Jones A History of the Barony of Gaultier M. Butler (1913) Egan's Guide to Waterford 1894 National Inventory of Architectural Heritage Click here Through the Green Isle; A Gossiping Guide (1896) M.J. Hurley Waterford News 'Waterford Fifty Years Ago' 26 June 1908
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