Glen Ellen (Kilcolman)

Houses within 5km of this house

Displaying 13 houses.

Houses within 5km of Glen Ellen (Kilcolman)

Displaying 13 houses.

House name	Description
Knocknaman	Henry Denny was leasing a property valued at £9 to William Thompson at the time of Griffith’s Valuation. An uunamed house, surrounded by trees, is marked on the 1st edition OS map. There is no house at this site now.
Abbeylands or The Abbey	Abraham Huggard was leasing this property from Sir William Godfrey at the time of Griffith's Valuation when it was valued at £5 10s. Local sources suggest it was built by the Huggard family in the early nineteenth century. It is still extant and occupied.
Kilburn House	Edward Godfrey was leasing Kilburn House to John W. Bonner at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £11 5s. Bary states that this property was owned for much of the nineteenth century by Reverend William Godfrey and his wife, Lucy Day but was usually let to a tenant. The property is still extant and now a farmhouse B&B run by the Leane family. See www.stayatkilburn.com
Kilcolman Abbey	Kilcoleman Abbey was the residence of Sir William Godfrey at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £33. Lewis also records it as his residence in 1837. In 1894 Slater referred to it as the seat of Sir John F. Godfrey. In 1906, it was still part of the Godfrey estate and valued at £35 10s.The Irish Tourist Association survey of the early 1940s refers to it as "Godfrey House, a fine type of Elizabethan type mansion". Bary states that the original house, built by the first Godfrey to settle in the area at the end of the seventeenth century, was called Bushfield but that it burned down in 1774 though Wilson still refers to it by this name in 1786 and provides a detailed description of the surroundings. Knightly indicates that a new house was then built by Sir William Godfrey. This house was remodelled twice in the nineteenth century. Sir William Maurice Godfrey sold Kilcoleman in the 1960s and it was demolished in 1977.
Rathpoge	At the time of Griffith's Valuation, Sir William Godfrey was leasing this property to William Hickson. No house is marked in this area on the Ordnance Survey map, the only buildings being the Kilcolman farmyard. The buildings on the site were valued at £13. It was still in the possession of the Godfrey estate in 1906 with the same valuation but are no longer extant.
Killeen House (Kilcolman)	William Miles was leasing Killeen House from the Leeson estate at the time of Griffiths Valuation, when it was valued at £15 5s. Bary states that the Myles family were associated with this house since the eighteenth century and continued there up to the 1880s. Later occupants demolished the house due to its poor condition.
Callanafersy House A	Robert Leeson was leasing Callanafersy House to Ephraim Williams at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £12 5s. Bary indicates that this house was leased by the Williams family and probably had been built by them earlier in the nineteenth century. It is still extant and occupied.
Callanafersy House	Richard J. Leeson-Marshall built Callanafersy House around 1861 and the family continued to own the house until well into the twentieth century. It is still extant and occupied.
Anna	Sir William Godfrey was leasing this property to Cornelius Murphy at the time of Griffith's Valuation when it was valued at £10 5s. Lewis records it as the residence of Reverend O'Connor, PP, in 1837. In 1814 Leet mentions Annagh as the seat of Giles Rae. Bary writes that it was built by the Godfreys in the eighteenth century and was lived in by various members of that family until the early nineteenth century when it was occupied by tenants. It was tragically burnt to the ground in the late twentieth century. Sir William was leasing a second property in this townland to Willam R. Burke, valued at £8 10s.
Laharan House	Sir William Godfrey was leasing this property to James O'Neill at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £7 5s, and part of a holding of 170 acres. It was recorded as the seat of F. Walker by Lewis in 1837 and Leet in 1814 as the seat of Francis Walker. Bary states that it was built by Francis Walker in 1808. The house passed to the Cronin family in the 1880s. It is stil extant and occupied.
Cloonalassan House	Lord Monteagle was leasing this property to John Giles at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £8 5s, on a demesne of 123 acres, some of which extended into Ballycrispin townland. Lewis mentions, in 1837, that Ballycrispin was formerly the residence of the Spring-Rice ancestors. It is not shown on the later 25-inch Ordnance Survey map of the 1890s.
Meanus House (Kiltallagh)	Lady Anne Headley's estate was leasing this property to Charlotte Walker at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £9 15s. Bary writes that it was leased by the Winn estate in the early part of the nineteenth century to the Walkers and later to the Spring family. It is still extant and was renovated in the twentieth century.
Kiltallagh Glebe	Rev. Brownrigg (or possibly Browning) Drew was in possession of Kiltallagh Glebe at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £17. Lewis records it as the seat of Rev.J. Murphy in 1837. In 1786 Wilson refers to "Menus"as the house of Dr. Drew but he also refers to a residence of Rev. Dr. Day, near Kiltalla church. Bary mentions that it was renovated by Rev. Murphy earlier in the nineteenth century. It was also associated with the Day and Godfrey families. In 1920 it was sold to the Boyle family by the Representative Church Body and is still extant and occupied.