Blake Hill

Houses within 5km of this house

Displaying 13 houses.

Houses within 5km of Blake Hill

Displaying 13 houses.

House name	Description
Strandhill	A 2 storey thatched house on the shore of Lough Corrib and situated opposite Ashford Castle, home of the Elwood family. In the late 18th century it was let to the Ireland family and in the mid 19th century to the Lynchs of Ballycurrin. The house was used as the home of the Widow Tolan in the film 'The Quiet Man' made in 1951 and was knocked down in the 1970s. It is associated with the recorder of Japanese folklore, Lafcadio Hearn, who spent a childhood holiday at Strandhill with his aunt Mrs Elwood.
Kinlough	A house on the shore of Lough Corrib, facing Ashford Castle and lived in by Patrick Moran in the 1860s and 1870s, now a ruin.
Abbey House	George McNamara inhabited a house in the grounds of Cong Abbey in the 18th century but Sir William Wilde refers to only a fragment of this house remaining in 1867. Alexander Lambert also lived in a house in the Abbey grounds. Wilde describes this house as follows "More to the west there recently existed the residence of the late proprietor, A.C. Lambert Esq., constructed of the unhewn, weather-worn, but square stones, collected in the locality. Being no longer required, and not being quite congruous with the scene, it has been removed". The remains of this building are now used by the Board of Works.
Lackafinna	A house built in the 1840s close to the shore of Lough Corrib and occupied by Ormsby Elwood, brother in law of Dr Watkins Roberts. The house was renovated in 2004 and is now a family home.
Lough Mask House	This house was constructed in the early 1840s when Ormsby Elwood was agent to the Earl of Erne. Robert Fair was occupying the house, valued at £10, at the time of Griffith's Valuation and would appear to have taken over as agent to Lord Erne. In the autumn of 1880 Lough Mask House was the scene of the first boycotting incident when Charles Boycott was the agent for the estate. By the mid 1880s Bernard Daly had bought Boycott's lease of the house and farm and his descendants continue to live at Lough Mask.
Ebor Hall	A house built before Griffith's Valuation by Deputy Commissary General Booth on land leased from the Provost and Fellows of Trinity College, Dublin. Booth later sold his interest to Lord Mountmorres who was murdered nearby in 1880. In 1885 Walford refers to it as the seat of Joseph Skerrett Blake. It belonged to the Boyd family for much of the 20th century. Extensively renovated in the late 20th century, it is now a well maintained residence on the shore of Lough Corrib.
Fairhill	Built in the late 18th or early 19th century, Fairhill was the home of the Fair family. It became established as a well known guest house for fishermen in the 20th century and is now a modern hotel run by descendants of the Fairs.
Ashford Castle	Originally a shooting lodge, in the style of a French chateux, built on the shore of Lough Corrib by the Browne family of Castlemagarret and occupied in the late 18th century by a branch of that family. Thomas Elwood was agent for the Brownes in the early 19th century and is recorded as the occupier in 1814. Sold after the Famine to Benjamin Guinness. His son Arthur Lord Ardilaun expanded the building in the style of a Gothic castle. Sold by the Guinness family in 1939 the castle now functions as a world famous hotel.
Gortnarup	A Joyce residence at the beginning of the 19th century. Gortnarup House is marked on the first edition Ordnance Survey map.
Rosshill	Rosshill House was the home of the Bermingham family in the 18th century and was noted by Wilson in 1786. It gradually declined during the 19th century and only one wing of it was still standing in 1865. The Guinness family of Ashford Castle bought Rosshill and much of the surrounding locality. No part of the house now remains but a portion of the stable block is still extant.
Petersburg	An early 18th century house, the seat of the Lynch family in the 18th and 19th centuries. Wilson refers to it as the seat of Mr. Lynch on the shore of Lough Mask in 1786. In 1986 the house and immediate surrounds were vested in the county Galway Vocational Education Committee. The house and yard buildings have been completely renovated and now function as an Outdoor Education Centre.
Benlevy Lodge	A lodge situated close to the shore of Lough Mask and to the Lynch's house at Petersburg. Ocuppied by J. Blake in 1837 and by the Reverend E.G.O'Grady at the time of Griffith's Valuation. The remains of the lodge are still visible.
Lisloughrey	This house is not marked on the first edition Ordnance Survey map but was built by the time Sir William Wilde's book on Lough Corrib was published in 1867. It was then occupied by William Burke, agent to Benjamin Lee Guinness. Occupied at the time of the 1901 census by Francis Turnly of Drumnasole, Garronpoint, Co Antrim, who was then agent to the Ashford estate. In the late 20th century the home of Rory Murphy manager of Ashford Castle Hotel. The building has now been greatly expanded and functions as a hotel http://www.lisloughreylodge.com