Moyglass

Houses within 5km of this house

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Houses within 5km of Moyglass

Displaying 9 houses.

House name	Description
Marble Hill	Marble Hill was built in the 1770s. It was enlarged as the family fortunes increased in the 19th century and was valued at £55 at the time of Griffith's Valuation. In 1906 it was held by Sir Henry G. Burke and was valued at £55. It was burned in the early 1920s. It is now a ruin with the remains of a substantial stable block to the rear. In 2005 it was for sale.
Ballynagar/Ballinagar	Lewis records Ballynagar as the seat of A. Nugent in 1837. . At the time of Griffith's Valuation it was the property of John Aylward and was valued at £10 but the estate is recorded as in Chancery. In 1894 it was the seat of John Lewis and the Lewis family continued to reside at Ballynagar until the 1920s. Ballynagar is still extand and occupied.
Danesfort House (Ballynakill)	Jethro Hemsworth was occupying the house, valued at £10, at Gortnakilla, in the 1850s. He was leasing from Henry Brunskill. There is still an extant house at the site.
Silverstream House	At the time of Griffith's Valuation John Shaughnessy was leasing a property valued at £5 from the estate of John Aylward, which was the subject of chancery proceeding. A building still exists at the site.
Ballycorban	In 1856 Matthew White was leasing a house valued at £10 at Ballycorban, in the parish of Ballynakill, barony of Leitrim, county Galway from the Burke of Marble Hill estate. Ballycorban is still extant and occupied.
Carrowroe Lodge	Sir Thomas Burke's estate held a house valued at £8 at Carrowroe in the parish of Ballynakill, barony of Leitrim, in 1856. Lewis records Carrowroe Lodge as the residence of H. Clarke in 1837. It was the property of Sir Henry Burke in 1906 when it was valued at just over £8. This house is still extant and occupied though it has been modernised.
Featherstone Lodge	Reverend John Fetherstonhaugh was leasing a house valued at £6 and over 1700 acres at Toorleitra from the Burke of Marble Hill estate at the time of Griffith's Valuation. Very little remains of the house and the area has been extensively planted with forestry.
Cartron House (Ballynakill)	On the first-edition Ordance Survey map this building is labelled "police barracks" but is shown on the 25-inch map of hte 1890s as Cartron House. At the time of Griffith's Valuation it was still a police barracks and valued at over £12, when it was part of the estate of Sir Thomas Burke of Marble Hill. Madden states that evictions on this estate had resulted in buildings in the area being attacked. Cartron House is still extant and occupied.
Knockadrum	The Burke estate owned a house at Knockadrum, barony of Leitrim at the time of Griffith's Valuation, which was leased to Reverend Lawrence Egan and was valued at £6. In 1906 the buildings at this site were still part of the Burke estate and were valued at over £12.