Dromore Castle
Houses within 10km of this house
Displaying 12 houses.
Houses within 10km of Dromore Castle
Displaying 12 houses.
| House name | Description | |
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| Parkgariffe | The representatives of Reverend D. Mahony were leasing a house valued at £9 to Barbara Strange at the time of Griffith’s Valuation. This property was included in the sale of the Freeman estate in 1850, when it was occupied by Mrs. Elizabeth Strange, under a lease dating from 1828. Bary states that it was later lived in by the Spottiswood Green family. There is still an occupied house at the site but it may have been altered. | |
| Old Dromore House | The representatives of Rev. D. Mahony were leasing a house valued at £25 to James McClure at the time of Griffith’s Valuation. The McClures were the agents for the Mahony estate for many years. It is labelled "Dromore Old" on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map and as "Old Dromore House" on the later 25-inch edition of the 1890s. Bary states that it was the original Mahony house before the building of Dromore Castle. It is not extant now. | |
| Dunkerron House | Lewis records that Dr. Taylor was occupying a property adjacent to the ruined castle at Dunkerron in 1837. In 1814, Leet refers to Dunkerrin Castle as the seat of George Cashell. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation, Joseph Taylor was leasing a property there valued at £16 15s from Deane Freeman. Bary states that Joseph Taylor was an agent for the Landsdowne estate. The Taylor property then passed to Dr. Thomas Taylor who built Dunkerron House. In 1906 this was the property of Sir John C. Columb and valued at £22. The property is still extant but extensive housing development has taken place in the demesne. | |
| Tubbrid House | At the time of Griffith's Valuation, John M. Hickson was occupying Tubbrid House, parish of Templenoe, valued at £9. Bary states that the house was built by the [O]'Mahony-Hickson family. There is still an occupied house at the site though it may have been altered. . | |
| Dromneavane | Rev. John O'Sullivan was leasing a property valued at £8 5s from the Lansdowne estate at the time of Griffith's Valuation. Labelled Dromneavane on both the 1st-edition and 25-inch Ordnance Survey Maps. A house still exists at the site. | |
| Lansdowne Lodge | William S. Trench, Lord Lansdowne's agent, was occupying this property at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £27. In 1837 Lewis refers to it as the residence of the then agent, J. Hickson. Bary states that it was the home of the various agents of the Lansdowne estate throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It was demolished in the latter decades of the twentieth century and a housing estate built on the grounds. | |
| Reenmore House | Rev. John Day was leasing a property valued at £12 15s from the Lansdowne estate at the time of Griffith's Valuation. This may have been the conjoined property labelled Sound House and Fir View on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map. On the 25-inch map of the 1890s, Sound House has become known as Reenmore House. The are still extant buildings at the site. | |
| Riversdale (Kenmare) | George Mayberry, MD, was leasing Riversdale from the Lansdowne estate at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £12 5s. Bary states that the house was in the Mayberry family until the early twentieth century when it was pruchased by the Representative Church Body who owned it until the 1960s. It is now an hotel. |
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| The Cottage (Kenmare) | At the time of Griffith's Valuation, Francis Downing was a leasing a property at Mucksna, Kenmare, to Agnes Godfrey, when it was valued at £9. This may be the property which Bary refers to as Tom Moore's cottage, still extant and occupied. | |
| Gearha | In 1906 Mary Mahony owned this property valued at £4 5s. At the time of Griffith's Valuation, Frederick Hyde was leasing it from the Mahony estate when it was valued at £2 5s. Buildings are still extant at the site. | |
| Marino Lodge | In 1906 John Columb owned this property, then valued at £6 10s. There are two bathing lodges in this area at the time of Griffith's Valuation, Marino Lodge and Clashganniv. These properties seem to have been part of the Langford estate. | |
| The Shrubberies (Kenmare) | At the time of Griffith's Valuation, Kenmare Board of Poor Law Guardians were leasing this property from Nathaniel Irvine as an Auxiliary workhouse, when it was valued at £37. On the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map it is labelled Monastery but on the later 25-inch Map of the 1890s it appears as The Shrubberies. It is still extant. |