Ballywilliam
Houses within 10km of this house
Displaying 12 houses.
Houses within 10km of Ballywilliam
Displaying 12 houses.
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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. | |
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. |
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Castle Cooke | A house was located here from the 17th century. Originally home of the Cooke family it was altered and expanded in the succeeding centuries by the Collis family. William Collis was resident for much of the 19th century. The house was valued at £32 in the early 1850s and at £34 when occupied by Colonel William Cooke Collis in 1906. It was burnt in June 1921 during the War of Independence when it was the residence of Col. William Cooke-Collis. This house is no longer extant. | |
Araglin Cottage | Located on the bank of the Araglin River and built for Robert Viscount Kingsborough, later 4th Earl of Kingston, this was probably the summer residence recently erected by the Honourable Robert King in the parish of Templemologga, referred to by Lewis in 1837. It was offered for sale in July 1851 with 3,951 acres held by the Earl in the barony of Condons and Clangibbon. Sold to the Morlands who leased it as a fishing lodge, this house is now a family home. In the 1870s John Sherlock of Aroglin Cottage, Kilworth, was recorded as the owner of 183 acres in county Cork. |
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Shanbally Castle | Bence Jones writes that this was the largest of John Nash's Irish castles, built circa 1812 for Cornelius O'Callaghan 1st Viscount Lismore. It was valued at £151 in the mid 19th century. Inherited by two daughters of the Marquess of Ormonde Lady Beatrice Pole Carew and Lady Constance Butler following the death of their cousin the 2nd and last Viscount Lismore in 1898. The Irish Tourist Association Survey in the early 1940s records that the building was taken over by the military authorities "for the duration of the present emergency". Sold by Major Patrick Pole Carew in 1954 and demolished in 1957. |
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Shanbally | In 1786 Wilson refers to Shanbally as a seat of Viscount Lismore. It was occupied by John Mahoney and valued at £10.15 shillings at the time of Griffith's Valuation, held from Viscount Lismore. In 1894 Slater refers to it as a residence of Viscount Lismore. | |
Rehill | Rehill was occupied by William Fennell in 1814 and 1837 but by the time of Griffith's Valuation James Mulcahy was resident, holding the property from the Earl of Glengall. The buildings which included a house, offices and corn mill were valued at £62. Sold in 1853 to Robert Murdock and leased by him to Edward Mulcahy. A building is still located as this site. | |
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. | |
Clashleigh | Lewis records Claishleigh as the residence of S. Grubb and in Griffith's Valuation Samuel Grubb held a house, office and flour mill valued at £170 in Clogheen Market from Viscount Lismore. His son Henry Samuel Grubb lived at Claishleigh in the 1870s. This house was in use as a rectory in the 20th century. |
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Coolville | An early 19th century house, occupied by Richard Grubb in the first half of that century. It was held from Viscount Lismore and with offices and flour mills was valued at £169 in the early 1850s. Home of Edward Sackville West 5th Lord Sackville in the mid 20th century, who added a Gothic conservatory to the building. |
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Mountain Lodge | In the mid 19th century Viscount Lismore owned a house/hunting lodge valued at £7 in the townland of Cullenagh (2,740 acres) which he also owned. This building has since been extended and is still in use as a youth hostel. |
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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. |