Griston House

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Houses within 15km of Griston House

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House name	Description
Rathanny	A house situated on the estate of the Earl of Limerick, occupied by John Sheeran in 1814 and by T. Bennett in 1837. Thomas F. Bennett was still resident at the time of Griffith's Valuation when the buildings were valued at £15.
Kenmare Castle	Joseph Gubbins of Kenmare Castle is recorded in 1814. Lewis refers to the pretty cottage erected by J. Gubbins on the site of Kenmare Castle in his entry for the parish of Hospital, circa 1837. James Gubbins was residing in a house valued at £23 at the time of Griffith's Valuation. He held the property from the Earl of Kenmare.
Castlefarm	Castlefarm was the residence of Mr Patrick Sheeran in 1814. By 1837 Standish O'Grady was the occupier and he was still living there at the time of Griffith's Valuation when the house was valued at £16. He held the property from the Earl of Kenmare.
Kilfrush	The home of Joseph Gubbins from at least 1837 and held in the early 1850s from the Court of Chancery. It was valued at £70 and was still the home of the Gubbins in the 1870s and in 1906 when it was valued at almost £66. According to the Irish Tourist Association survey it had been built in 1825 and was still the home of Mrs Gubbins in 1943. It is still extant.
Ballincolloo	This house was the residence of Mrs Bennet in 1814 and by 1837 of J. Gubbins. Joseph L. Gubbins occupied the house at the time of Griffith's Valuation holding it from the representatives of Samuel Bennett. It was valued at £14. It is no longer extant.
Elton	In 1786 Wilson notes Elton as the seat of Mr.Grady. Leet records the Reverend Thomas Grady [of Cappercullen] as the occupier of Elton in 1814. Mrs Grady lived at Elton in 1837 and Mrs Mary Jane Grady was resident at the time of Griffith's Valuation. She held the property in fee. The buildings were valued at £34. Described in the rental of 1853 as having a "cheerful and commanding aspect". The tenant from year to year was John Simms. In the later part of the 19th century this house belonged to the Bevans of Camas. The original house is not extant.
Bulgaden Hall	An early residence of the Lords Carbery in county Limerick. Described by Lewis in 1830s as in a "ruinous condition". The site of Bulgaden Hall is noted on both the 1st and 25-edition Ordnance Survey maps.
Mount Coote	The county Limerick seat of the Coote family in the 18th and 19th centuries. Wilson refers to it as "the pleasant seat of Mr. Coote" in 1786. It was occupied by Chidley Coote in 1814. Lewis refers to it as the former seat of Chidley Coote in 1837. Charles Coote was resident at the time of Griffith's Valuation and held the property in fee. The buildings were valued at £53. Their value had increased to £65 by 1906. The Irish Tourist Association surveyor wrote in 1943 that the house was bought by Sir Gilbert Greenall, who became 1st Lord Daresbury, who spent about £200,000 setting up a Model Farm. [Lord Daresbury also owned Clonshire]. Following his death three years previously it was sold and then run as a stud farm. Bence Jones writes that this house was demolished circa 1960 and a new house built in the Georgian style.
Riversfield	A house located on the Coote estate, occupied by Thomas Weldon in 1837 and at the time of Griffith's Valuation when the buildings were valued at £20. John H. Weldon of Riversfield owned 68 acres in county Limerick in the 1870s. Occupied by Mr and Mrs Watt in 1943. It is still extant.
Castle Oliver	The original Castle Oliver or Clonodfoy was the home of the Oliver family in the 18th and early 19th centuries. It was replaced by the present building in the mid 19th century. In 1814 Castle Oliver was occupied by George Fosbery who may have been employed by the Olivers. In 1837 Lewis described the castle as being in a very dilapidated state. It then belonged to R. O. Gascoigne of the county of York whose bailiff resided in it. The new building was designed by George Fowler Jones and built in the Scottish baronial style for the Oliver Gascoignes. At the time of Griffith's Valuation the castle was valued at £75 and the house at £48 and both were in the possession of Elizabeth O. Gascoigne and her brother-in-law, Frederick Charles Trench. The house was eventually inherited by Elizabeth's step-grandson, William Cosby Trench. He was the occupier in 1906 when it was valued at £125. Restored in the early 21st century it now provides self catering accommodation and is a venue for functions such as weddings.
Martinstown	Martinstown was the residence of M. Walsh in 1837. At the time of Griffith's Valuation this was a house on the Trench/Gascoigne estate valued at £10+ and inhabited by William O'Grady. Bence Jones refers to a modern house built in circa 1972 at Martinstown, Kilmallock.
Millmount	Occupied by the Reverend Joseph Gabbett and held from Daniel Gabbett at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when the buildings were valued at £16. It is labelled Millmount on the First Edition Ordnance Survey Map and as Ardvullen on the later 25-inch edition of the 1890s. A house is still extant at the site.
Mount Russell	The home of James Russell in 1837 and at the time of Griffith's Valuation. The buildings were valued at £30 and James Russell held the property and 750 acres in fee. It is labelled as "in ruins" on the 25-inch Ordnance Survey map of the 1890s and nothing now remains.
Ahnagurra	Ahnagurra was the residence of Thomas T. Adams in 1837 and at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when the buildings were valued at £26. He held the property from Francis Coppinger.
Ballynalacken	A house valued at £15 and occupied by George Gubbins who held it from Francis Coppinger at the time of Griffith's Valuation. It is no longer extant.
Ryves Castle [Castle Jane]	Ryves Castle, previously known as Castle Jane, was the home of the family of this name in the 18th and early 19th centuries. It is referred to as Castle Jane by Wilson in 1786 when he notes it as the seat of Mr. Ryves. By the 1830s however William H. Ryves of Ryves Castle appears to have moved to live in Brighton, as the birth of many of his children is recorded in the Limerick newspapers as having taken place there. In 1826 Fitzgerald records Ryves Castle as the residence of John Lowe. Lewis referring to the parish of Knocklong, notes that Thaddeus R. Ryan was resident at Castle Jane and that there was a vault of the Lowe family located in the grounds of Ryves Castle, that family having previously been its proprietors. For the parish of Ballyscanlan he records Ryves Castle as the residence of P. [T?] Ryan. At the time of Griffith's Valuation the house was valued at £29 and occupied and held in fee by William H. Ryves. In 1906 it was valued at £31 and was occupied by Thomas J. Franks. Later owned by Mr D. Fleming, this house is now demolished.
Scarteen	Thaddeus R. Ryan was resident at nearby Castle Jane [Ryves Castle] in 1837 as recorded by Lewis and Scarteen was unoccupied. John Ryan was the occupier of Scarteen in the early 1850s when the house was valued at £30+. He held the property from William H. Ryves. His widow Alice owned 50 acres in county Limerick in the 1870s. The Ryans still live at Scarteen where the famous pack of hounds of that name is kennelled.
Ballynacourty	In 1837 and at the time of Griffith's Valuation occupied by Michael Burke. In the 1850s it was valued at £13 and held from the Honourable C.B. Wandesforde.
Darragh House	The residence of Fred Bevan in the early 1850s, held by him in fee and valued at £12+. In the 1870s Hamilton Geale/Gale lived at Durragh Lodge. The house is now known as Darragh House and is still extant and occupied. Self catering accommodation is available, see www.darraghcottages.com.
Massy Lodge	This house is named Massy House on the first Ordnance Survey map and was the main residence of Lord Massy in the first decade of the 19th century. In 1814 Anglesborough was occupied by Hugh Toutstone [Touchstone]. Lewis describes Massy Lodge as the elegant residence of Lord Massy. At the time of the first Ordnance Survey Massy Lodge was the residence of Robert Harding. It was held by Lord Massy in fee at the time of Griffith's Valuation and valued at £24+. The partly demolished house is now owned by the Hanly family.
Janeville	A house located very close to the county Tipperary border, occupied by the Reverend R. Lloyd in 1837 and by Samuel R. Harding at the time of Griffith's Valuation. The buildings were valued at £17+ and held from Thomas L. Sadlier.
Glenefy/Gleneefy	Built for George L. Bennett by Charles Frederick Anderson see http://www.dia.ie/works/view/256 The house is named on the first Ordnance Survey map as Gleneefy but on the later 25-inch map as Glenefy. In 1837 Castlecreagh was the residence of G. Bennett and at the time of Griffith's Valuation Castlecreagh, valued at £26 was held by George L. Bennett in fee. In 1906 occupied by William H.M. Bennett and still valued at £26. It is still extant.
Riversdale	Built by the Massys in the early 19th century and occupied by Hugh Massy in 1837 and held by him in fee at the time of Griffith's Valuation when the house was valued at £30+. Lynch writes that this house was bought from the Massy Dawsons by John Noonan in 1922, who ran it as a hotel.
Stagdale Lodge	A Massy house occupied by members of the Massy family from the late 18th century. It was the home of Hugh Massy, a younger brother of George Massy of Glenwilliam Castle, at the beginning of the 19th century. Held by W. Massy in 1837, Lewis records the "fine avenue of stately beech trees". William Massy was still resident at the time of Grifffith's Valuation holding the property from Hugh Massy. In 1906 occupied by Hugh H.G. Massy and valued at £30.10 shillings.
Loughananna	At the time of Griffith's Valuation a house at Loughananna was occupied by James McGrath, valued at £10+ and situated on the Kingston estate. By 1906 the mansion house at Loughananna was valued at £50+ and Abel Buckley is recorded as the occupier.
Bosnetstown	The Bennett family were resident at Bosnetstown from the early 19th century. Charles Bennett of Bosnetstown was a coroner for county Limerick in the 1810s. Located on the estate of Lord Lisle this house was occupied by George W[heeler] Bennett in 1814 and 1837 and in the early 1850s by George Bennett. The property was valued at £14. In the 1870s George Wheeler Bennett of Kilfinane held 156 acres in the county. The Bennett also lived in other houses closeby at various times for example Kilfinane House. http://members.iinet.net.au/~nickred/trees/bennett.pdf
Ballynahinch	A house valued at £11 occupied by Thomas Cleary at the time of Griffith's Valuation and held with 354 acres from the Trench/Gascoigne estate. Thomas Cleary of Ballinahinch owned 454 acres in county Limerick in the 1870s. A house is still extant at the site.
Spa Hill	A home of the Oliver family, occupied by Charles Deane Oliver in 1814 and by William Oliver in 1837 and at the time of Griffith's Valuation. The buildings were valued at £23+ and William held them from the Trench/Gascoigne estate, with a corn mill.
Sunville	A residence of the Godsell family in the 18th century, it was still in the possession of James Godsill in 1814. Lewis writes that Sunville anciently belonged to the Godsall family but was "now" (1837) the residence of E. Sayers. Edward Sayers held it in fee at the time of Griffith's Valuation. Sunville/Sunvale was afterwards a residence of the Low family, being occupied in 1906 by Colonel John Low. Lithographs of this house and mill are included in the sale rental of 1853. The Irish Tourist Association surveyor wrote in 1943 that the house was owned by Mr John O'Donnell. He says that it was built in the early 18th century by the Cosby family from whom it passed to the Lowes. It is labelled Sunvale on the 25-inch Ordnance Survey map of the 1890s. The house is no longer extant.
Ballywire	The demesne of this house straddled the border between counties Limerick and Tipperary. In 1826 Fitzgerald refers to the house having been "lately fitted up and furnished in a very tasteful manner". Godfrey Massey was resident at Ballywire in 1814. By 1837 it had become the home of John Bolton Massy who held the property in the 1850s from the Provost and Fellows of Trinity College, Dublin. It was valued at £40. This house is still a residence.
Knocktoran	This late 19th century seat of the Webb family is now a stud farm. Anna Thomasina Webb occupied the house in 1906 when it was valued at £32. Owned by Major S.N.C. Webb in 1943. It is still extant.
Garryspillane House	A mansion house valued at £16.15 shillings was located in this townland in 1906. It was occupied by Stafford Delmege, second son of the Reverend John Delmege, whose representatives owned 525 acres in county Limerick in the 1870s. A house labelled Garryspillane House is shown on the 25-inch Ordnance Survey Map of the 1890s. There is still an extant house at the site.
Ballynacourty	Originally the home of the Dawson family, it passed by marriage to the Massy family and was the seat of the Massy Dawsons in the 18th and 19th centuries. Occupied by J. H. Massy Dawson in 1837 and owned by the estate of Reverend John M. Dawson in the early 1850s. It was held in fee and was valued at £75. In 1839 the Ordnance Survey Name Books describe it as "beautifully situated and in good repair, the residence of Rev. J.M. Dawson". In 1894 Slater refers to it as the seat of George Staunton King Massy-Dawson. This house was a ruin by the mid 20th century.
Bowen's Court	Built in the 1770s by Henry Cole Bowen this house was the seat of the Bowen family until 1959 when it was sold by the author Elizabeth Bowen. Wilson, writing in 1786, refers to it as Faraghy, the seat of Mr. Cole Bowen. It was held in fee by Mrs. Eliza Bowen at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £75. In 1942 the Irish Tourist Association Survey noted that the house had been attacked during the 1798 rebellion. Bowen's Court was demolished in 1961.
Meadstown	Burke's ''Landed Gentry of Ireland'' (1904) records the Franks family of Maidstown, county Cork. Hajba dates the present house circa 1860 replacing an earlier house. At the time of Griffith's Valuation the Reverend James Golden occupied Meadstown which he held from Henry Franks. The buildings were valued at £10.15 shillings. This house is still occupied.
Springvale	This house was ccupied by Roger Bourke in 1814 and by Roger S. Bourke in 1837. Roger Burke was married to a sister of Garret Nagle of Ballinamona. William Baily was resident in the early 1850s and held the property from the Earl of Kingston. The buildings were valued at £14.10 shillings. Grove White writes that Springvale was purchased by George Grehan of Clonmeen in 1855 and John J. Therry, his agent, lived there. In 1942 the Irish Tourist Association noted it as the residence of Mrs. Helen Clancy, a descendent of Therry. Although abandoned for some years in the 20th century the house has now been restored and is lived in again.
Ballinwillin	Lewis writes that this house was the occasional residence of the agent to Lord Kingston, reputedly built by Arthur Young who came to Mitchelstown in the 1770s as a land agent. In the mid 19th century Neale Brown was the occupant holding the house valued at £22.15 shillings and 13 acres from the Earl of Kingston. This house is still a well maintained residence.
Mitchelstown Castle	The original castle belonged to the FitzGibbons, the White Knight. It passed through the marriage of Margaret FitzGibbon and Sir William Fenton to the heirs of their daughter, Catherine, and her husband, Sir John King. By the mid 18th century the Kings had replaced the castle by a house which was altered and extended over the years. In 1786 Wilson refers to it as "the very magnificent seat of Lord Kingsborough". In the 1820s the 3rd Earl built a new castle in anticipation of a visit from George IV which never happened. This was a huge building in the Gothic Revival style, valued at £180 in the mid 19th century. It remained in the possession of the Kings until the death of Lady Kingston, widow of the 5th Earl. In 1922 the castle was looted and burnt and the stones were later used to build a church at Mount Melleray. In 1943 the Irish Tourist Association Survey provided a detailed description of the castle and its history and noted that portion of the cellars and foundations were still visible.
Marshalstown	This house was known as Castle Eugene in 1837 when it was the home of Eugene O'Neill, medical doctor. Dr O'Neill was still resident in the early 1850s when the house was valued at £41.10 shillings and held from the Earl of Kingston. This house no longer exists.
Mounteagle Cottage	Hajba writes that this was a sporting lodge of the Earls of Kingston. In the early 1850s it was occupied by Thomas O'Brien and valued at £14.10 shillings. It is still a residence.
Killee	The seat of the Montgomery family from the mid 18th century, occupied by George Montgomery in 1814 and by William Quinn Montgomery in the early 1850s. It was held in fee at this time and valued at £43. Killee remained in Montgomery possession until the 1930s. It is still occupied.
Broomhill	Valued at £11, occupied by James Geran and held from James N. Cronin at the time of Griffith's Valuation. Later the home of a member of the Montgomery family and still inhabited.
Cloonkilla	James H. Mandeville held buildings valued at £21 from James N. Cronin among the woods at Cloonkilla at the time of Griffith's Valuation.
Galtee Castle	Built in the late 18th century as a hunting lodge, it was described in the Kingston sale rental of July 1851 as a "handsome cut stone building, erected in a tasteful style of architecture, with suitable offices .... beautifully situated in the curve of a well planted glen..". Located close to the eastern bank of the Attychraan River at the base of the southern slope of the Galty Mountains, this house was occupied by James Law in the mid 19th century, valued at £29+ and held by him in fee. Noted by Slater in 1894 as the home of Nathaniel Buckley and of Abel Buckley in 1906 when the buildings were valued at £130. The house is no longer extant. Also known as Mountain Lodge.
Mount Bruis	The Inventory of Irish Architectural Heritage dates this house from the mid 18th century. It was occupied by Doherty Esq in the 1770s and in 1786. The residence of Edmund Scully in 1814, Mrs Doherty in 1837 and Thomas Dwyer in the early 1850s. Dwyer held the property from Irwing Bagnell and the buildings were valued at £25. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey Name Books described it as "a very old building and in middling repair". It is still extant.
Woodville	Lewis records Matthew Gibbons [Givens?] as the occupier of this house. Mathew Givens was resident at the time of Griffith's Valuation and held the house valued at £15 from the estate of Reverend John M. Dawson. In 1839 the Ordnance Survey Name Books describe it as "in excellent repair and beautifully ornamented". It is still extant and occupied.
Ballynacree House	A house valued at £10 and held from Samuel Dixon by Michael Manning in the mid 19th century. Ballynacree is still extant.
Mooresfort	The home of the Crosbie Moore family in the 18th and early 19th century, Wilson refers to Moore's-fort as "the handsome seat of Edward Moore" in 1786. Lewis records Maurice Crosbie Moore as resident in 1837. At the time of Griffith's Valuation Edward C. Moore was still in possession of Mooresfort. However it was advertised for sale in 1852 and sold to Charles Moore of county Antrim, who altered and remodelled the house, reducing it from a 3 storey to a 2 storey house. The house remained in the possession of this family into the 20th century. It is now the main residence on a working farm.
Damerville	Austin Cooper Chadwick, third son of John C. Chadwick, lived at Damerville in the 1830s. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey Name Books describe it as "a modern structure in good repair". By the time of Griffith's Valuation [his widow] Mrs Anne Chadwick was resident. The house was valued at £10 and held from the Earl of Portarlington. It is still extant.
Shrone Hill	Shrone Hill or Shronell House is a mid 18th century house. In 1786 Wilson describes it as "once a magnificent building of the late Mr. Damer, now belonging to Lord Milton and in ruins". It was occupied by the Sadlier family in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Ordnance Survey Name Books refer to it as the residence of William Sadlier in 1840. At the time of Griffith's Valution the house was valued at £20 and leased by Clement Sadlier from the Earl of Portarlington. It is still extant.
Damer's Court	In 1837 Lewis refers to this house as follows "built about a century ago by John Damer, passed to the Earl of Dorchester and then to Lady Caroline Damer his daughter and sole heir and is now the property of the Earl of Portarlington. The mansion was taken down in 1776". It is marked on Taylor and Skinner's map. In 1786 Wilson refers to it as "the very noble and beautiful seat of Lord Milton", On the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map it is labelled "Damerville Court [in ruins]". There is no trace of this house now.
Glenbrook Cottage	Thomas Holmes was leasing this property from the Massy-Dawson estate at the time of Griffith's Valuation when it was valued at almost £4. It is not named on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map but appears as Glenbrook Cottage on the 25-inch edition of the 1890s. It is still extant and occupied. Local sources suggest that the original house dates to the seventeenth century and that the Holmes family called it Clydeingrove.
Knockainy Cottage	Possibly located on the estate of the Earl of Kenmare who owned land in this parish in the mid 19th century. On the first edition Ordnance Survey map this building is named Knockainy Cottage. Later maps show a much larger building now known as Knockainy Stud.
Mount Blakeney	Mount Blakeney is south west of the town of Kilmallock and very close to the border between counties Limerick and Cork. No large house is marked in the townland of Mount Blakeney on the first Ordnance Survey map (Sheet 47). In 1786 Wilson refers to Mount Blakeney as the seat of Mr. Blakeney. At the time of Griffith's Valuation the townland was in the possession of Mrs. Blakeney Fitzgerald. In 2022 Mount Blakeney was offered for sale.
Ballybeg (Mitchelstown)	In 1786 Wilson states that "Ballybeg, the seat of Mr. Spratt, was pleasantly situated at the foot of a lofty mountain" outside Mitchelstown. Local history suggests that this was a property acquired by Devereux Spratt in the 17th century. It is not named on the 1st edition Ordnance survey map though buildings are shown at the site.
Kilshanny	Wilson, writing in 1786, refers to Kilshanan as the seat of Captain King. An unnamed property is shown in the townland of Kilshanny on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map which was later to be the site of Mitchelstown workhouse. It is no longer extant.
Aghacross	Wilson, writing in 1786, refers to Aghacross as the seat of Mr. Anderson. No substantial residence is shown in this area on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map. The townland was in the possession of William Anderson at the time of Griffith's Valuation. A modern farm exists at the site now.