Riversdale

Houses within 5km of this house

Displaying 6 houses.

Houses within 5km of Riversdale

Displaying 6 houses.

House name	Description
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.