Longfield
Houses within 5km of this house
Displaying 10 houses.
Houses within 5km of Longfield
Displaying 10 houses.
House name | Description | |
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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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Scregg | A Kelly home built in 1767, occupied by J.E. Kelly in 1837 and Eliza Kelly in the 1850s. In the sale rental of 1856 the house is described as a respectable mansion, 3 stories high with basement and attic stories and a view of the Shannon River. Occupied in 1906 by the representatives of Henry Potts. The house is extant but no longer lived in. It is currently (2009) being restored with support from the Irish Georgian Society, see http://www.igs.ie/Programmes/Conservation-Grants/Scregg-House.aspx |
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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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Coolderry | Occupied by Thomas Kelly in 1814 and by Bryan Fenerty in the 1850s. | |
Lysterfield | Originally a Lyster property that later came into the possession of Lord Ashtown, a descendant of Anthony Lyster. The home of members of the Lyster family until the mid 1830s and occupied by Mr John Burne at the time of the first Ordnance Survey and by Henry Trench in the 1850s. Nothing now remains except some red bricks, possibly part of a fireplace, at the corner of a farmyard. |
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Turrock | This house was in ruins by the time of the first Ordnance Survey in the mid 1830s. The Kellys lived at Weston, county Meath, from the mid 19th century to the 1930s. | |
Bellgrove House | Described in the Ordnance Survey Field Name Books as a small house with a demesne of 115 acres. Occupied in 1837 by O. Irwin and the residence of John C. Davis at the time of Griffith's Valuation. Demolished in the mid 20th century. | |
Grange | The Lyster house at Grange was knocked down in the early 19th century after the sale to Farrell and a new one built. | |
Correal | Built in 1888 by Percy Magan and valued at £35 in 1906. Burnt in 1921 when it was the home of the Walker family. A smaller house was rebuilt. | |
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". |