Scregg
Houses within 5km of this house
Displaying 11 houses.
Houses within 5km of Scregg
Displaying 11 houses.
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Lackan | Occupied by James Lyster in 1814 and by Patrick McDonnell at the time of Griffith's Valuation. The house is modernised and still used as a family home. |
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Mountplunkett | Built in 1806 by George Plunkett and home of the Plunkett family until the mid 19th century when it became the property of Patrick Grehan. Described in the Crotty sale rental of 1851 as a 'superb mansion' repaired by Mr Crotty at a cost of upwards of £2,000. Grehan held the house, valued at £30, in fee, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. Samuel Richard Prosser lived in Mount Plunkett in the 1860s. The entrance gates are still in use but only walls remain of the house and outbuildings. Robert Adamson was apparently living at Mount Plunkett in the 1870s. |
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Ballymurray House | The Crofton family are originally recorded as 'of Ballymurray'. Ballymurray is the next townland east of Mote Demesne. A house at Ballymurray was occupied by Captain E. W. Kelly in 1837 and by Edmund Kelly in the 1850s, who held the house, valued at £9, from the representatives of James Daly. William Curtis was residing in Ballymurray in the 1870s. The property is labelled "Balymurray House" on the 25-inch Ordnance Survey map of the 1890s. It is no longer extant. | |
Churchboro | Occupied by Edward Kelly in 1814, E. Kelly in 1837 and by Patrick Grehan at the time of Griffith's Valuation. The house is no longer extant. |
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Rahara | In the 1830s and at the time of Griffith's Valuation the home of Alexander Sproule who held Rahara from the Blake Knox family. The house was originally a thatched one storey building. On the night of the Big Wind in 1839 the thatch was blown away and the house was rebuilt with an additional storey and a slate roof. Now the home of the Donnelly family. |
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Longfield | The Sproules were settled at Longfield from the late 17th century. At the time of the first Ordnance Survey described as a house of small dimensions with ruins attached on the south side. Lewis records Longfield as the residence of P. Sproules. The house is now a ruin. |
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Sandfield House | Wilson notes this house as the seat of Mr. Sandys in 1786. The residence of Robert Sandes in 1814 and occupied by Bernard Reilly and valued at £3.10s at the time of Griffith's Valuation. A house is still extant at this location. | |
Kellybrook | Wilson records this house as a Kelly residence in 1786. The seat of Denis Kelly in the 1830s and of Jane Kelly in the 1850s who held the property from Esther Dillon and the representatives of Maria Boswell. The house was valued at £3. Still occupied by a family named Kelly. |
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Galeybeg | Occupied by Mr Bart Purdue in 1814 and in the 1830s described as a gent's seat belonging to Mr Bond with a neat demesne attached. The sale rental of 1856 states that it was built by the Reverend James Bond. In the 1850s held by Richard Bond in fee from the Court of Chancery and described as a herd's house with office. The home of Benjamin Greene in 1906. Occupied until the late 20th century, now derelict. |
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Gort | A home of the O'Kellys in the mid 18th century. Occupied by "Doyle esquire" in 1778 and 1786 and by Simon J. Dowell in 1814. The house is labelled Gort on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map but is not named on the 25-inch edition of the 1890s. The townland was in the possession of Elizabeth Dowell at the time of Griffith's Valuation when she was leasing a house valued at £4 10s to Michael Kelly. Some ruins exist at the site now. | |
Ballagh | The residence of John Kelly in 1814. At the time of Griffith's Valuation, there is no house with a substantial valuation in the townland, which was the property of "Bernard Kelly, a minor, in chancery". |