Thornhill (Ballinacarrow)
Houses within 5km of this house
Displaying 9 houses.
Houses within 5km of Thornhill (Ballinacarrow)
Displaying 9 houses.
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| Temple House | The Temple House estate extended into the Civil parishes of Cloonoghill and Emlaghfad as well as in the parish of Kilvarnet where the house is located. In 1786 Wilson refer to Temple-house as the seat of Mr. Perceval. The present house was built c.1820 but was subsequently modified. In 1894 the house was noted by Slater as the seat of Mrs. Perceval. Remains of earlier Perceval houses are to be seen in the demesne. |
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| Annaghmore (Nymphsfield) | Annaghmore has been the principal seat of the O'Haras since medieval times. An earlier house on the site had been demolished by 1684. It's successor was replaced by the present house c.1820. That house was known in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century as Nymphsfield and is described by McParlan in 1802. In 1786 Wilson refers to Nymphsfield as the pleasant seat of Mr. O'Hara. The name of the house was changed back from Nymphsfield to Annaghmore in the early 19th century and the house was further enlarged. In 1894 it was the seat of Capt. Charles K. O'Hara. In 1906 the house was valued at £68. Annaghmore is still extant and occupied by the O'Hara family. |
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| Cloonamahon | In 1854 when the estate was offered for sale by Thomas James Meredith the house was described as "a good slated dwelling-house..somewhat out of repair, but with a little outlay, it could be made very comfortable". In 1906 Dr. Henry Tweedy was the owner of buildings valued at £50 at the site. Following the departure of the Tweedy family the property was used as a sanitorium and later a retreat centre. McTernan notes that the original house was demolished in 1976 and replaced by modern buildings. Most of the site is now occupied by a Health Service facility. | |
| Spotfield | Spotfield appears to have been the property of the Phibbs family in the 19th century but in the 18th century may have been occupied by the White family who had intermarried with the Phibbs. At the time of Griffith's Valuation, it was leased by John Phibbs to Eccles Phibbs. The house was then valued at almost £4. McTernan notes that the house was demolished in the latter part of the twentieth century. | |
| Heathfield (Sligo) | The house at this site was built c.1890 presumably replacing an earlier house listed in Griffith's Valuation, when it was being leased by William Phibbs from the Cooper of Markree estate. At that time it was valued at £6. In 1906 it was owned by Thomas Randle Phibbs and was valued at £22. This later house survives and has been offered for sale in recent years. Ruins of gatelodge and gated entrance visible at G656219. |
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| Toberscanavan House | At the time of Griffith's Valuation, James Noble was leasing this property, valued at £3 from the Cooper estate. McTernan notes that it remained in the Noble family until the later twentieth century. It is still extant but derelict. |
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| Greenfield Cottage/Greenville | At the time of Griffith's Valuation, Henry Burrowes was leasing a property valued at almost £8 from the O'Hara estate at Coolaney. This seems to be the property marked on the 1st edition OS Map as Greenfield Cottage. It appears on the 25-inch Ordnance survey of the 1890s as Greenville. The original house is no longer extant. | |
| Somerton | Somerton House appears to have been the residence of the agent to the Perceval estate. At the time of Griffith's Valuation the latter estate was owned by R.W. Hall-Dare. Somerton was then occupied by Christopher L'Estrange and was valued at £14. It is still extant. |
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| Cuiltybar | Occupied in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by relatives of the O'Haras of Annaghmore. Leased in the 1830s to John Fenton Motherwell and afterwards his widow Elizabeth who held it at the time of Griffith's Valuation. It was then valued at £7 10s and leased to George Martin. It returned to members of the O'Hara family in the early twentieth century after which the land was acquried by the Land Commission. Still extant and occupied, McTernan notes that it is one of the oldest occupied houses in county Sligo and was, in the distant past, known as Trimgrove. |