Bushyisland

Houses within 5km of this house

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Houses within 5km of Bushyisland

Displaying 9 houses.

House name	Description
Shannon Grove	Originally the home of the Bury family, Earls of Charleville, overlooking the Shannon estuary. The Ordnance Survey Name Books record this house as four-storied, built in 1709. Bence Jones dates this house from the early 18th century. Lewis writes that Shannon Grove was the old family mansion of the Earls of Charleville and "now the residence of Bolton Waller". Bolton Waller held the property in fee in the early 1850s when the buildings were valued at £43 and the demesne was over 400 acres. Bought by John Sheehy of Askeaton in 1860 and remained in the possession of his descendants until the mid 20th century. The house is still extant and occupied.
Castletown	The main residence of the Waller family in the 18th and 19th centuries, now demolished. The house was valued at £80 in the early 1850s when it was the residence of the Reverend William Waller. By 1906 its value was reduced to £72.5 shillings and it was occupied by the Reverend John Thomas Waller who was also resident in 1894. The surveyor for the Irish Tourist Association Survey in 1944 refers to the house being recently levelled to the ground.
Copsewood	Copsewood Cottage is marked on the first Ordnance Survey map at this site. A much larger house was built in the mid 19th century for Major General Caulfeild. It was valued at £36 at the time of Griffith's Valuation and at £63 in 1906. It remained in the possession of the General's descendants until 1919 when it was bought by the Salesian Fathers who started an agricultural school. It is now a secondary school run by the Salesian Order.
Summerville	Described by Lewis as an ancient seat of Lord Charleville "now occupied by an agent". In the early 1850s Patrick and Michael O'Donnell were resident and they held the property from General James Caulfeild.
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.
Milltown	The Reverend Champagne was resident at Milltown from at least 1837. He is recorded as the occupier of this house in the early 1850s when he held the house valued at £28 from the Reverend Tyrell Evans.
Ballynacourty	A house occupied by Thomas Davenport from at least 1837. The Ordnance Survey Field Name Books circa 1840 state that the house was built by John Evans "about 90 years" previously. It was two storeys high. The house was valued at £15 in the early 1850s and was held from Daniel D. Power. The house is still extant and now owned by John Feheney. For more information see www.iverusresearchfoundation.com (See ‘Research Notes’, Ballinacourty House).
Ballynort	A Taylor residence which passed by marriage to the Massy family. In1786 Wilson describes it as" the pleasant seat of Mr. Massey". The townland of Ballynort, 657 acres, was held in fee by Standish O'Grady and E.T. Massy at the time of Griffith's Valuation. This house is marked "in ruins" on the first Ordnance Survey map. The buildings were valued at £4+. There is no trace of the house on the 25-inch Ordnance Survey map of the 1890s.