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Cappagh (Decies-within-Drum)

Houses within 5km of this house

Displaying 17 houses.

Houses within 5km of Cappagh (Decies-within-Drum)

Displaying 17 houses.

House name Description
Ardocheasty John B. Wallace was leasing this house from the Carew estate in 1851 when it was valued at £12 5s. Farm buildings are extant at the site.
Odell Lodge/Melrose House Leased by Rev. Thomas Thurtle from the O'Dell estate in 1851 when it was valued at £18 10s. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage indicates it was later known as Melrose House. In 1942 the ITA survey noted the property as the Melrose Hotel, formerly Odell Lodge. The survey states that it was built by the Odell family as a summer residence. It is still extant and occupied. Photo of Odell Lodge/Melrose House
Rock House (Ardmore) Richard Usher was leasing this property from the O'Dell estate in 1851 when it was valued at £18. Though the building is still visible it is not named on the later 25-inch Ordnance Survey map. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage suggests it may once have been three houses that were amalgamated into one property, possibly in the early nineteenth century. It is still extant. Photo of Rock House (Ardmore)
Dysert (Ardmore) Rev. Ambrose Power was leasing a property from the O'Dell estate in 1851 which was valued at £12.
Ardmore or Monea House Simon Bagge was leasing this property from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in 1851 when it was valued at £33. It is labelled as Ardmore House on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map and as Monea House on the later 25-inch edition. The ITA survey indicates that it was sold by John Leonard Bagge in 1921 and subsequently became an Irish college.
Bayview (Clashmore) Rev. Michael Purcell was leasing this property from Lord Decies estate in 1851 when it was valued at £12. There is still an extant house at this site.
Lackendarra House In 1851, Mrs. Eleanor Fitzgerald was leasing this property from Rev. James Elliott when it was valued at £11 5s. In 1894 it appears to have been occupied by a Russell family.
Monatray In 1851 Pierce S. Smith [Smyth), a minor, held Monatray in fee when it was valued at £35. In 2013 it was offered for sale. The sale details suggest it was built by Percy Smyth of Headborough as a summer residence in the 1830s. In the twentieth century it was occupied by a religious order and later a country house club before returning to private ownership in the 1980s. In recent years the house name is spelt Monatrae. In 2014 Monatrae was offered for sale. Photo of Monatray
Newtown House (Kinsalebeg) Built after the first Ordnance Survey, Michael Kennedy was leasing this property from the Smyth estate in 1851 when it was valued at £13 10s. It is noted on the 25-inch Ordnance Survey Map as Newtown House. There is still an extant house at the site.
Pilltown House Declan Tracy was leasing this property from the Kennedy estate at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at over £12. Smith refers to it as "Pilltown, not long since the estate of the Walshes". The house is labelled Pilltown House on the 25-inch map of the 1890s. It is no longer extant. Tracy is noted as the owner of over 450 acres in county Waterford in the 1870s. A substantial mill, valued at £39, in the same townland was being leased by Peter Moore Fisher [X129800]. It was included in the sale of Fisher property in the Landed Estates Court in November 1865. The mill appears to have fallen into disuse by the end of the nineteenth century though the ruins remain.
Mayfield (Kinsalebeg) In 1851 Thomas P. Carew was leasing this property from the Smyth estate when it was valued at over £20. A house labelled Mayfield appears at this location on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map. In 1837 Lewis noted it as the seat of J. Gee. It is still extant and occupied. Photo of Mayfield  (Kinsalebeg)
Prospect Villa (Kinsalebeg) Prospect Villa seems to have been built in the later nineteenth century, close by an earlier house known as Mayfield. A house at Prospect Hall is described by Smith as "a handsome seat with good improvements made by the late Stephen Bernard" In 1786 Wilson refers to "Prospect Hall" as the seat of Mr. "Barnet". There is still an extant building at the site. Photo of Prospect Villa (Kinsalebeg)
Woodbine Hill George Roche held this property from the Smyth estate in 1851 when it was valued at over £26. Local sources suggest it was built by him earlier in the nineteenth century. It is still extant and occupied. Photo of Woodbine Hill
Clashanahy Sir Richard Musgrave held this property on lease from the Decies estate at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at almost £18. There is still an extant property at this site.
Ardoginna House Leased by Sir Joseph Neale McKenna from the estate of the Duc deCastres until its sale in 1864, when it was bought by McKenna. Formerly a residence of the Coghlan family. Eliza, a daughter of this Coghlan family, married the Duc deCastres. Ardoginna was owned by the McKenna family until the early twentieth century. It was briefly used as an Irish college before the purchase of Monea House for that purpose. Brady notes that it is now a ruin. In the 1780s, both Taylor and Skinner and Wilson had noted a house called Grey Rock as a residence of the Coghlan family in this area. Photo of Ardoginna House
Lackandarra Lodge At the time of Griffith's Valuation, Richard Chearnley held this property in fee when it was valued at almost £10. On the 25-inch Ordnance Survey Map of the 1890s it is labelled Lackandarra Lodge. A farm is still extant at the site.
Lackandarra A Mrs. Eleanor Power was leasing this property from the Chearnley estate at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £9. There are still buildings extant at the site.