Paradise

Houses within 10km of this house

Displaying 18 houses.

Houses within 10km of Paradise

Displaying 18 houses.

House name	Description
Fort Fergus	A home of the Ross Lewin family in the 18th and early 19th centuries. In 1786 Wilson refers to it as the seat of J. RossLewin. Occupied by Mr Evans in 1814 and by Daniel O'Grady in 1837 and held by Major William Ball in fee in the 1850s, when the buildings were valued at over £32. Bence Jones writes that Major Ball purchased Fortfergus in 1855 in the Encumbered Estates' Court. Weir writes that the house was burnt down in the 1920s. The remaining staff quarters have been turned into a residence and the farm buildings are still in use.
Cragbrien	An 18th century house of the Stacpooles which Wilson notes as "the beautiful seat of Mr. Stacpole" in 1786. It passed to the Stacpoole Mahons in the early 20th century and is still occupied. Matthew Kelly of Cragbrien owned 562 acres in county Clare in the 1870s.
Mulvihill House	Built by the Mulvilhill family, it was their home in the 18th and 19th centuries. Occupied by Daniel Mulvihill in 1814. Charles Mulvihill was a magistrate in county Clare in 1846. By the time of Griffith's Valuation James F. Clarke was leasing the house from Colonel George Wyndham, when it was valued at £14. The house is no longer occupied.
Clondagad House	A 19th century house, the home of the Whitstone family, who held the property at the time of Griffith's Valuation from Edward A . Gore. It was valued at £12 and described as a steward's house. The house is occupied and well maintained.
Carrigerry	Built in the late 18th century, this house was occupied by John O'Halloran in 1814 and by Major Creagh in 1837. Mary Creagh, who held the property from Francis Macnamara was in residence in the mid 1850s. The house is now a country hotel run by Mr and Mrs N. Ennis see http://www.carrygerryhouse.com/index.html
Lismoyle	This house dates from circa 1841 when it was the residence of T. O'Donoghue. At the time of Griffith's Valuation it was the home of Patrick O'Donoghue who held the property from Mary O'Grady. Occasionly used as a shooting lodge by the O'Grady family and it remained in their possession until the 20th century.
Cloonnakilla	A house occupied by John Ryan medical doctor and held from John Bindon Scott in the 1850s. John Ryan was still resident in the 1870s.
Cornfield	Occupied by Westropp Ross in 1814 this house was in the possession of Major William Ball by the time of Griffith's Valuation, when the buildings were valued at £48. Later occupied by members of the Dawson family. The house no longer exists but a gate lodge is still extant.
Ross Hill	Ross Hill House was the home of George Ross Lewin and his descendants until the end of the 19th century. He was the second son of Harrison Ross Lewin of Fort Fergus, High Sheriff of county Clare in 1755. The house is still inhabited.
Cahercon/Cahiracon	A house situated on the bank of the Shannon, the seat of the Scott family until at least the 1850s. The sale rental of 1854 gives a detailed description of the house which included 16 bedrooms. By the mid 19th century James Kelly held the house in fee. The buildings were valued at over £53. The Honourable Charles William White, second surviving son of Baron Annally, was living at Cahiracon in the mid 1870s and it was a seat of that family in 1894. The Vandeleurs lived here for a short time at the beginning of the 20th century. Bought by the Maynooth Mission to China in 1920 and sold by them to the Salesian Sisters of St John Bosco in 1962. The house later became the centre of Cahercon Community College. Cahercon is now owned by Clareman Paddy Whelan of Limestone Quarries.
Clifton	Built by the Scotts of Cahiracon for the use of their agents circa 1830s, this house was in the possession of James Kelly by the time of Griffith's Valuation when the house was recorded as unoccupied. It became St Brigid's Convent for postulants of the Columban Sisters in the 1920s and was demolished in 1979.
Ballyleaan Lodge	Lewis records Ballylane Lodge as the residence of W. Coppinger. At the time of Griffith' s Valuation William Coppinger held in fee at Ballyleaan 142 acres, a lodge, offices and gate lodge. The property was later inherited by the O'Connell family and by marriage passed to John Charles Coppinger O'Connell (later Bianconi) in the 1870s. The mansion house valued at £41 was in the possession of John O'Connell in 1894 and in 1906. Weir writes that the house was completely demolished in 1970.
Clenagh Castle	Home of the McMahons in the 18th century, Lewis refers to the ruined tower which was "once the residence of the McMahons".
Crovraghan	A house situated on the Wyndham estate, occupied by John Tatlow in 1814 and J. O'Donnell in 1837. James O'Donnell held the house, valued at just over £10, from Colonel George Wyndham at the time of Griffith's Valuation. Later the home of the Cannon family until the 1970s.
Shore House	The O'Gradys lived at Shore House from at least the 1820s. Jane O'Grady held the house from John Bindon Scott at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £14.10 shillings. Jane O'Grady married Daniel O'Connell of Kilgory. The home of the Hogan family at the end of the 20th century.
Teermaclane	Home of the Woulfe family in the 18th century, it became a ruin in the early part of the 19th century.
Ballysteen	Home of the Westropp family in the 18th and 19th centuries and occupied by Colonel John Westropp in 1814. The Ordnance Survey Field Name Books circa 1840 state that John Westropp built the house in 1809 on the site of the former house. By 1837 it had passed to his nephew Edmond Odell who had assumed the name Westropp. Ballysteen valued at £40 was held by Edmund Westropp in fee at the time of Griffith's Valuation and in 1906 by Richard Westropp when its value had increased to almost £45.
Glenagaureen	The Ordnance Survey Field Name Books circa 1840 record an unoccupied house named Glenagordon in Ballysteen, built 1826 by Edmund Odell Westropp. A vacant house valued at £16 and held by Edmund Westropp was recorded in Griffith's Valuation for Ballysteen.