Carravilla
Houses within 15km of this house
Displaying 93 houses.
Houses within 15km of Carravilla
Displaying 93 houses.
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Moore Hall | Built in 1795 and burnt down in 1923. The residence of George Henry Moore, MP, at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £45. Slater refers to it as the seat of George A. Moore in 1894. The ruin is now owned by Coillte Teoranta. |
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Creagh | The original house was situated beside the River Robe and was described in September 1836 by Robert Graham as a "nicely laid out cottage residence". Earlier, in 1786, Wilson refers to it as the seat of Mr. Cuff. Mary Louisa Cuffe was leasing the property from Colonel Charles Knox at the time of Griffiths Valuation, when it was valued at £32. A new house was built by Colonel Charles Knox in 1875, which became a tuberculosis sanatorium and a centre for the Agricultural Institute in the 20th century. James Cuff (recorded as Duff), of Creagh, near Ballinrobe, is mentioned as the proprietor of townlands in the parish of Ballynacourty, barony of Dunkellin, county Galway, at the time of the first Ordnance Survey in the 1830s. |
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Levally | Home of the Fair family for a time in the 19th century. At the time of Griffith's Valuation it was leased by James Simpson from the Earl of Lucan's estate and valued at £5. It is described as a "Herd's House". It was unoccupied in the early years of this century and for sale in 2007. Demolished in September 2007. |
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Castlecarra | Granted to Sir Henry Lynch after the Restoration, it was the family's main home in county Mayo for much of the 18th century. In 1786 Wilson refers to Castle Carra as the seat of Mr. Lynch. The mansion house and offices at Castlecarra were described in 1844 by Samuel Nicholson as "now almost ruins". Castlecarra was leased to the Brownes of Castlecarra at this time and was part of their property for sale in 1852. The ruins of the original tower house are still extant but much of the surroundings are now covered by forestry. | |
Garracloon | Wilson refers to Garracloon as the seat of Mr. Blake in 1786. In 1814 the house was occupied by the Reverend Cecil Crampton, rector of the parish of Cong. At the time of the first Ordnance Survey in 1838 Garracloon house was recorded as a ruin. At the time of Griffith's Valuation, it was held in fee by Joseph Blake and valued at £8. The house was later rebuilt, Ruane refers to the ruined Victorian Garracloon House. Sir William Wilde refers to Colonel Veitch at Garracloon. No longer extant but yard buildings remain. |
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Dowagh | Another home of the Blakes of Garracloon. It was lived in by Mark Blake a younger brother of Manus Blake of Garracloon, until his death in 1817. At the time of the Ordnance Survey 1838 it was described as a 'beautiful little place' the residence of Mr Blake. Held by Isaac Mayne, from Henrietta Blake at the time of Griffith's Valuation. The building still retains its thatched roof and is occupied. |
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Strandhill | A 2 storey thatched house on the shore of Lough Corrib and situated opposite Ashford Castle, home of the Elwood family. In the late 18th century it was let to the Ireland family and in the mid 19th century to the Lynchs of Ballycurrin. The house was used as the home of the Widow Tolan in the film 'The Quiet Man' made in 1951 and was knocked down in the 1970s. It is associated with the recorder of Japanese folklore, Lafcadio Hearn, who spent a childhood holiday at Strandhill with his aunt Mrs Elwood. |
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Kinlough | A house on the shore of Lough Corrib, facing Ashford Castle and lived in by Patrick Moran in the 1860s and 1870s, now a ruin. |
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Ballymacgibbon House | The home of the Fynn family in the 18th and 19th centuries. It was held in fee by Jane Finn at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £20. It is now an ivy covered ruin. |
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Abbey House | George McNamara inhabited a house in the grounds of Cong Abbey in the 18th century but Sir William Wilde refers to only a fragment of this house remaining in 1867. Alexander Lambert also lived in a house in the Abbey grounds. Wilde describes this house as follows "More to the west there recently existed the residence of the late proprietor, A.C. Lambert Esq., constructed of the unhewn, weather-worn, but square stones, collected in the locality. Being no longer required, and not being quite congruous with the scene, it has been removed". The remains of this building are now used by the Board of Works. |
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Castletown | A branch of the Ellison family was living at Castletown in the 1770s and Wilson notes it as the seat of Mr. Ellison in 1786. The sale rental for the D'Arcy estate in the Encumbered Estates' Court in November 1852 refers to a small house on the property, which could be adapted as a fishing or shooting lodge. Lewis Strachan occupied the house at the time of Griffith's Valuation. A few walls of the house still remain. |
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Lackafinna | A house built in the 1840s close to the shore of Lough Corrib and occupied by Ormsby Elwood, brother in law of Dr Watkins Roberts. The house was renovated in 2004 and is now a family home. | |
Robe Villa | A town house on the River Robe, home of the Kenny family for 200 years, sold by them in the early 1980s to the Ballinrobe Rugby Club. |
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Purrauns | Home of a branch of the Bell family of county Mayo and occupied by the Lynches in the mid 19th century. At the time of Griffith's Valuation it was occupied by Patrick King leasing from James Lynch when the buildings were valued at £5. Buildings are still extant at the site. |
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Carnacon House | Home of the McDonnell family in the early 19th century and probably earlier as local sources suggest General James McDonnell, who fought in the 1798 Rebellion, was born there. In 1844 described by Samuel Nicholson as "neat and comfortable, prettily situated upon the lake and ornamented by thriving plantations". It was purchased by the Hughes family in the 1940s and is still in their possession. |
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Hollybrook | In 1786, Wilson refers to Boullybeg as the seat of Mr. Crean. This house was the home of the Creans and Crean Lynches. At the time of Griffith's Valuation the house was occupied by Ephraim and George Anderson, leasing from Patrick C. Lynch, when it was valued at £25. It is now a ruin. |
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Ballinrobe Castle | A Bourke castle, restored by James Cuffe in 1752 and sold to the War Office in 1821 for use as a military barracks though a barracks existed there in the 18th century as Wilson refers to the town having a barracks with two companies of foot in 1786. The barracks were valued at £75 at the time of Griffith's Valuation. It ceased to be a barracks in the 1920s but substantial ruins of the buildings remain. |
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Partry House | Bence-Jones describes the house, situated on the shore of Lough Carra, as Georgian with a Wyatt window above the porch. It is likely that it incorporates an earlier house built in the latter part of the 17th century. In 1786 Wilson mentions "Cloonlagheen" as the seat of Mr. Lynch. It was the seat of the Lynch/Blosse Lynch family for three centuries. At the time of Griffith's Valuation, it was held in fee by Henry Lynch Blosse and valued at £14. Owned briefly by David Shaw Smith in the 1990s, now the home of Lorraine O'Donoghue. |
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Towerhill | A late 18th century house, occupied by the Blakes until the mid 20th century, now a ruin. 1n 1894 Slater refers to it as the seat of Colonel Maurice Blake. It was valued at £60 at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was occupied by Valentine O'Conor Blake. |
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Lough Mask House | This house was constructed in the early 1840s when Ormsby Elwood was agent to the Earl of Erne. Robert Fair was occupying the house, valued at £10, at the time of Griffith's Valuation and would appear to have taken over as agent to Lord Erne. In the autumn of 1880 Lough Mask House was the scene of the first boycotting incident when Charles Boycott was the agent for the estate. By the mid 1880s Bernard Daly had bought Boycott's lease of the house and farm and his descendants continue to live at Lough Mask. |
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Cloonee | A house built circa 1760, sometimes known as Lakeview. It was occupied in the late 1770s by a member of the Browne family and from the early 19th century by the Blakes. Thomas Walsh was the occupier at the time of Griffith's Valuation. He held the property from Colonel Charles Knox. Cloonee was the home of William Creagh Burke in the early 20th century. The "Connaught Telegraph" of 9 March 1935 reported the sudden death of William C. Burke of Lakeview in the Main Street of Ballinrobe when a fair was taking place. The property passed by marriage to the Ruttledge family of Bloomfield. see www.clooneehouse.com/ |
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Springvale | Springvale was noted by Lewis as the home of Henry Joseph Blake in 1837. At the time of Griffith's Valuation the house was leased by Henry Blake from Joseph H. Bath and was valued at £8. A substantial corn mill in the townland, valued at £25, was leased by Henry Blake to Patrick Tierney at the same time. The house was later the residence of the Mayne family. It is still extant and occupied. The mill building is also still visible. |
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Cloonnagashel | A house inhabited by the Gildea family from the mid 18th century and situated on the estate of the Earls of Lucan. Wilson refers to it as the seat of James Gildea in 1786. It was the home of James Simpson between 1855 and 1880 , valued at £25 at the time of Griffith's Valuation. Later occupied by the Egan family. It now functions as the club house for Ballinrobe Golf Club. |
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Cranmore | Built in 1838 by Alexander Clendining Lambert on land he held on lease from Colonel Charles Knox. It reverted to the Knoxes after the Famine and was used as a dower house by Colonel Charles Howe Cuff Knox for his mother, a daughter of the 2nd Marquess of Sligo. The house was bought by the Daly family in the 1920s and sold to the McCartans in the late 1940s. They took off the roof in the 1950s and the house is now a ruin. |
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Cuslough | Lewis describes this house as formerly a 'seat of Lord Tyrawley and now of R.Livesay'. At the time of Griffith's Valuation it was occupied by Richard Livesay, leasing from Colonel Charles Knox, when the house was valued at £12. It stood close to the ruins of Cuslough Castle. | |
Curramore House | Bence Jones dates this house as circa 1830. At the time of Griffith's Valuation it was occupied by Geoffrey Martyn and valued at £20. It was still in the possession of the Martyn family in the mid 1920s. Curramore is still extant and occupied. |
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Houndswood | In 1786 Wilson refers to Houndswood as the seat of John D'Arcy. It was held in fee by John S. Dawson at the time of Griffith's Valuation when it was valued at £10+. A thatched house, it was accidentally burnt in the early 20th century. |
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Moytura | Built in 1865 as a home of Sir William Wilde, father of Oscar Wilde. Still extant and well maintained. | |
Rathgranagher | A house on the Lindsey estate, lived in by Charles Cromie in the late 1830s. It was occupied by John Jackson at the time of Griffith's Valuation, leasing from Thomas Lindsey, when it was valued at £14. A house is still extant there. |
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Greaghans | At the time of Griffith's Valuation this property was held by Robert Bowen and occupied by Dominick Browne. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage notes that it was later occupied by Robert T. Crawford, agent to Lady de Clifford. It is still extant. |
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Kilrush | A house in the village of Hollymount, leased by Christopher Bowen from Reverend Christopher Bowen's estate at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £25. Only a few walls remain now. |
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Annefield | Built by Anthony Elwood in 1795, the property passed to the Blakes of Windfield, county Galway, in the mid 19th century. It was occupied by Charles Cromie in the 1830s and at the time of Griffith's Valuation by Emerson Dawson. It was sold to the Brannick family early in the 20th century and was bought by a Mr Fleishche in the 1980s, who restored the derelict house. The house was for sale in 2007. |
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Mount Jennings | Home of the Jenings family in the 18th and 19th centuries. Mount Jennings was held in fee by Benjamin Jenings at the time of Griffith's Valuation when the house was valued at £20. It was the childhood home of the ballad singer, Delia Murphy. Her parents still resided in the house in the 1940s. The roof was taken off the house in the 1970s and it is now demolished. | |
Frenchgrove | A house marked as 'in ruins' on the 1915 edition of the 6 inch Ordnance Survey map. The Irish Tourist Association file describes Frenchgrove as the residence of the Blakes, later of the Frenches and finally of a man named Eager, a Dublin banker. No house of more than £3 valuation was recorded in Griffith's Valuation for the townland of Frenchgrove. A modern house now occupies the site with the remaining evidence of the old building. |
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Fountainhill | The home of a branch of the Jennings family for over a hundred years, now a ruin. The house was held in fee by Patrick Blake at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £10. |
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Kilrush House | Built as an agricultural school in the 1830s, it was not a success and swiftly closed. The property was rented in the 1850s from the Lindseys by Francis Laurie, a farmer from Scotland. He died in 1865 and James Simpson took over the lease. Charles Bingham Jenings and his wife, formerly of Mount Jenings, lived at Kilrush for the first three years of the 20th century. The building is now a ruin. |
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Hollymount | A very early 18th century house built by Archbishop John Vesey of Tuam, altered in the 19th century. In 1786 Wilson refers to it as the seat of Mr. Lindsay. It was held in fee by Thomas S. Lindsay at the time of Griffith's Valuation when it was valued at £61. The home of the Lindsey Fitzpatricks until 1922 and of Mr J Loftus in the 1940s, now a ruin. |
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Liskilleen | Built by Courtney Kenny in 1862. He was also the owner of the townland at the time of Griffith's Valuation when a herd's house existed there. It is still extant and occupied. |
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Ballyheeragh St Leger | This house was held in fee by Dominick Kearns at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £10. Bought by the Tierney family in the early 20th century and still occupied by them. |
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Togher | Originally a Lambert residence but occupied by George Ruttledge by 1837. It was held in fee by John Hood at the time of Griffith's Valuation when it was valued at £13.. It became the home of his fourth son, Charles Ralph Hood. This house is now completely demolished. | |
Bloomfield | Built circa 1776, it was the seat of the Ruttledge family. At the time of Griffith's Valuation it was held in fee by Robert Ruttledge and valued at £50. It was also the seat of Robert Ruttledge in 1894. Sold to the Land Commission in 1924 and later abandoned following a fire. |
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Farmhill/Carradoyne | In 1786, Wilson refers to Farmhill as the seat of Mr. Vesey. Dean Arbuthnot, who lived in the house in 1814, was rector of the parishes of Crossboyne and Kilcolman and a brother of Sir Robert Arbuthnot. The Gonne Bells were recorded as resident in Lewis and the Ordnance Survey Name Books. The house appears to have been known as Farmhill during the Vesey/Arbuthnot/Gonne Bell ownership and thereafter as Carradoyne House. It was occupied by Thomas Elwood in 1845 and by Lady Lynch Blosse at the time of Griffith’s Valuation. By the 1860s it was the home of the Sheffields. It was occupied by Katherine Tynan and her husband, Henry Albert Hinckson, during World War I. Carradoyne House is still extant and occupied. |
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Bushfield | The original house, now a ruin, was sometimes known as Creaghduff. Creaghduff was occupied by Burke esq in the 1770s. Thomas Ruttledge of Bloomfield made his will at Bushfield in 1797 and died there in 1805. Bushfield was the home of Arthur Knox and his wife Barbara, nee Lambert. Their daughter, Elizabeth, married Annesley Knox of Rappa Castle. Barbara married Charles White as her second husband and sublet the house to Robert Fair, son of Robert Fair of Fortville. It was valued at £15 the time of Griffith's Valuation. Robert Fair of Bushfield had an only daughter, Jane, who married Thomas Ruttledge of Bloomfield and their second son took the surname Ruttledge Fair. A new house was built in the 1920s and is the home of the Delaney family. Extensive remains of the original Bushfield farmyard survive at the site. |
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Cloghansmore | Occupied by Martin P. Costello at the time of Griffith's Valuation, valued at £12. Still extant and occupied. | |
Castlevilla | A Ruttledge family home in the 19th century, still extant and lived in. At the time of Griffith's Valuation it was leased by James Rutledge from Lady de Clifford's estate and valued at £18. |
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Fortville | Fortville was occupied by Robert Fair in 1814. At the time of Griffith's Valuation it was the residence of Anthony Kyne. Now the home of the Curran Flannery family, the Curran family having lived there since the 1910s. |
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Gallow's Hill | Occupied by James Simpson at the time of Griffith's Valuation when the buildings were valued at £20 and leased from the Earl of Lucan's estate. On the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map the name "Gallowshill" is attached to linear set of structures set out in small plots. This has disappeared by the 25-inch edition map of the 1890s and the substantial structure leased by Simpson is located some distance away. The site of this is now almost completely overgrown. | |
Cloghans House | Lane esq was residing at Cloghan Castle in the 1770s. In 1786, however, Wilson refers to Cloghan Castle as the residence of Mr. Lewin. Ruane describes the house as early 18th century with 19th century alterations. It was held in fee by Henry H. Lewin at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £10. it was occupied by General Arthur Lewin in the early 20th century. He was an aviation enthuaist and went to live in Nairobi, Kenya, in the 1930s. Cloghans was sold to the McCartans in the 1940s and is now the home of the Kelly family. |
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Turin | Turin Castle has recently been renovated. The house no longer exists but some of the farm buildings are still visible. In the 1770s Kirwan esq occupied Turin Castle and in 1814 Arthur Browne was recorded as resident there. At the time of the first Ordnance Survey Samuel Lindsey Bucknall was living in Turin House and it was occupied by the Rutherfords in the 1850s. |
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Milford | Early 18th century house with some 20th century alterations. |
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The Neale | An early 18th century house, with a number of follies designed by Lord Charlemont. Wilson refers to it as "the superb and beautiful seat of Sir John Browne" in 1786. It was occupied by the Reverend James Cromie, brother-in-law of the 2nd Baron and his family, for most of the first half of the 19th century. The house was valued at £25 at the time of Griffith's Valuation. It was sold in the 1930s and most of the house is now demolished. |
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Newbrook | In 1786 Wilson mentions Newbrook, the "elegant and delightful seat" of Henry Bingham. This house burnt down in 1837 and was not rebuilt. Only a small amount of the walls of the house remain but the yard buildings are still in use. |
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Summerhill House (Kilmaine) | The residence of Parsons Persse, agent to Lord Clanmorris, at the time of Griffith's Valuation when the house was valued at £8. Summerhill no longer exists but the yard buildings still remain. |
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Beechgrove | This house was leased by George Rutledge from Robert Fair at the time of Griffith's Valuation when it was valued at £10. Beechgrove was noted by Lewis as a residence of the Brannick family in 1837. It is still extant but unoccupied. |
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Brownstown | In 1786 Wilson refers to Brownstown as the seat of Mr. Browne. This house is shown on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map but marked 'in ruins' on the later 25-inch edition. The townland was in the possession of George Browne at the time of Griffith's Valuation. The Irish Tourist Association file describes the house as a 3-storey T shaped plain residence, uninhabited for about 60 years. |
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Clooncormick | Home of the Gildea family in the 19th century and of the McCartan family in the late 20th century until it was destroyed by a fire. Francis Knox Gildea was leasing from James Knox Gildea at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when the property was valued at £45. No trace of the house remains but much of the stable yard is still extant. |
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Cornfield | Cornfield was the original Ruttledge home in the Hollymount area and continued to be lived in by family members until the 20th century, although it was replaced as the family's principal residence by Bloomfield. In 1786 Wilson refers to it as the seat of Mr. Ruttledge. In the mid 19th century it was the home of Thomas Ruttledge who married Jane Fair. He was leasing from Robert Ruttledge and the buildings were valued at £20. The existing dwelling is part of the original house, as are the ruins beside it. Local sources suggest that portions of the original house were demolished when the property was acquired by the Land Commission and some of the stone used to build houses in Hollymount village |
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Garriestown | This was a Walsh family home in the 19th century. At the time of Griffith's Valuation the house was leased by Thomas Walsh from Robert Rutledge when it was valued at £11. Garriestown is now a large farming enterprise and the house is still lived in. |
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Moyne Lodge | Moyne Lodge was occupied by the Golding family in the early part of the 19th century and by Martin Kirwan Blake before the sale in 1852. The house is no longer extant but some stone walls are still evident with the old castle to the right. |
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Glencorrib | Home of Robert Dillon Browne and later of the O' Higgins family, the house is now demolished. At the time of Griffith's Valuation, it was held in fee by George O'Higgins, MP, and valued at £12. | |
Dalgan | Built in 1801 as the new home of the Kirwan family formerly of Claremount, Claremorris. It was bought by the Duke of Bedford in 1853 for Lady de Clifford, the wife of his first cousin. In the 1860s Henry Edward Joly and Charles Joly are recorded at Dalgan Park (''Connaught Telegraph'' 27 March 1867). In 1894 Slater noted it as the seat of Allan J. Algie. The house became a seminary for the missionary Society of St Columban in 1918. The Irish Tourist Association file describes the fine mansion as in ruins. It contained about 50 rooms and had been stripped of its roof and fittings about a year previously, circa 1944. It is now demolished. |
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Lakefield | In 1786 Wilson refers to the seat of Nicholas Reddington, situated near the lake. He may be referring to this house whch he says was "daily improving in beauty and commands a very extensive prospect". Home of James Fox in the 1830s. Occupied by John Commins at the time of Griffith's Valuation, leasing from the de Clifford estate. The house was valued at £8 at that time. It is still extant. | |
The Heath | At the time of Griffith's Valuation, it was the property of Henry Blake and valued at £10. Described in 1863, when sold by the Blakes to the Tighes, as a substantial dwelling house with two reception rooms and six bedrooms, all in good repair. It is now a ruin. |
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Streamstown | William Coghlan was living at Streamstown, near Claremorris, in 1814. In the 1830s the townland is noted as belonging to Mr. Gonne Bell of Farmhill, Claremorris. By the time of Griffith's Valuation there is no house with a significant valuation in the townland. | |
Woodstock | There is no substanial house marked on the first Ordnance Survey map for the townland of Woodstock. | |
Castlemagarret | In 1786, Wilson refers to CastleMacGarret as the seat of D.G. Browne, "a handsome seat, surrounded with one of the best wooded demeses in Ireland". The house, built in 1694, was destroyed by fire in August 1811 and a replacement built in the Tudor Gothic style. Robert Graham, in his journal of September 1836, refers to the fire and that "the present house is constructed out of the old offices, but is amazingly comfortable as far as it goes". Held in fee by Geoffrey Browne at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £25. The house functioned as a nursing home after it was sold by the Brownes in 1964. It is still extant but unoccupied. In 2015 it was offered for sale. |
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Cappagh | Cappagh was occupied by James Tighe at the time of Griffith's Valuation when the house, valued at £4, is described as a herd's house. It was built some time before the publication of the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map of 1838 and is still extant and well-maintained. |
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Millbrook House | There is a lithograph of this house attached to the sales rental of Lord Oranmore and Browne's estate in 1854. The sale rental states that the late tenant [Lawrence Glynn] recently expended a large sum in building a residence on this lot. This later building is labelled Millbrook House on the 25-inch Ordnance Survey map of the 1890s. It is no longer extant. | |
Coarsefield | The Grays were in possession of Coarsefield by the late 1830s. The present house was probably built by the Tighe family who bought Coarsefield from the Grays and sold it to the Stephens family in the early 20th century. |
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Brookhill | Brookhill was situated on church land held by the Gonnes, who leased the house to the Kirwans in the late 1770s. Occupied by the Lambert family from the 1790s to the 1940s when it was sold to Gerald Maguire, a solicitor in Claremorris. Now the home of the Noone family. |
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Lehinch | A house marked on the Taylor and Skinner's map but not on the first Ordnance Survey map. In 1786 Wilson refers to it as the seat of Valentine Blake. The walls of the garden still remain and this was the venue for the Hollymount Show at one time. |
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Ashford Castle | Originally a shooting lodge, in the style of a French chateux, built on the shore of Lough Corrib by the Browne family of Castlemagarret and occupied in the late 18th century by a branch of that family. Thomas Elwood was agent for the Brownes in the early 19th century and is recorded as the occupier in 1814. Sold after the Famine to Benjamin Guinness. His son Arthur Lord Ardilaun expanded the building in the style of a Gothic castle. Sold by the Guinness family in 1939 the castle now functions as a world famous hotel. |
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Coolcon Castle | Originally a Burke castle and later a residence of the Blakes in county Mayo, very little of this castle now remains. | |
River View [Donaghpatrick] | This house was occupied by James Kearns in the 1850s, leasing from the Duke of Bedford's estate, when the house was valued at £8. It is still extant and occupied. |
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Moyne Hill | Hughes writes that a Captain Carter bought Moyne Hill in 1852 from Charles Blake of Merlin Park. By 1906 James McDonnell was occupying the house. Soon afterwards it became the home of Thomas McDonagh of Headford Castle and his descendants still live there. The original house was knocked down circa 1950 and replaced by a modern bungalow. The original entrance gates and farm buildings are extant. |
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Mossfort | A house labelled Caherakeeny is shown here on the First ediiton Ordnance Survey map. It was valued at £12 and occupied by John Kilkelly at the time of Griffith's Valuation. The present house was constructed in the late nineteenth century and is labelled Mossfort on the 25-inch Ordnance Survey map of the 1890s. |
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Lisdonagh | An O'Flaherty home, built in the late 18th century, sold to the O'Mahonys in the late 19th century and passed by marriage to the Palmers. Now functions as a guest house run by John and Finola Cook. http://www.irelands-blue-book.ie/lisdonagh.htm |
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Mirehill | Home of Thomas Redington in 1814, Stepney St George in the 1820s and occupied by Michael Kelly in the 1850s, when it was valued at £4 and by Stephen R. Roche in 1906. It is no longer extant. | |
Shrulegrove | The ruin of the castle at Shrulegrove remains as a prominent feature in the village of Shrule. On the Ordnance Survey map of 1838 a substantial house and gardens are marked in the townland of Shrulegrove. All the townland, including a herd's house and offices valued at £1, were held by Richard Golding from the Duke of Bedford at the time of Griffith's Valuation. |
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Millbrook | Millbrook House was held in fee by John Bermingham at the time of Griffith's Valuation when the house was valued at £11 and the nearby mill (M412635) at £12. Both buildings are now in ruins. |
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Castlegrove | Originally a Blake house, it was occupied by the Lewins from 1888. Wilson refers to Castle-Grove as the seat of Mr. Blake in 1786. It would seem that this house was replaced in the nineteenth century as, although listed in Leets directory of 1814, the sale rental of 1852 records Castlegrove as a mansion house erected 'within the last twelve years'. It included a ballroom, oak staircase and numerous bedrooms. It was bought by John William Cannon. The sale rental includes a lithograph of the house. Castlegrove was burnt in 1922 and is now a ruin. |
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Newborough | Occupied by Lynch esq in the 1770s, this house passed to the Crean family by marriage. Newborough became a Blake house in the early 19th century. At the time of Griffith's Valuation there were two houses valued at £3 in the townland of Bunagarraun, occupied by Patrick Higgins and Margaret Higgins, who held from Patrick Crean Lynch. The original house is not extant. |
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Belmont | Home of the Blakes in the late 18th century and first half of the 19th century. Wilson refers to it as the seat of John Blake in 1786. Recorded as a steward's house at the time of Griffith's Valuation when it was held by James D. Meldon from the Bishop of Tuam. The original house is now a ruin. |
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Ironpool | A Jenings home, described as a "good thatched 2 -storey dwelling house" in 1852, occupied by George Jenings. It was held in fee by William Ogilvie at the time of Griffith's Valuation when it was valued at £6. It is now a ruin. |
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Blindwell | In 1786 Wilson refers to Blindwell as the seat of Mr. Kirwan. It was held in fee by Martin S. Kirwan at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at almost £18. A fireplace still marks the site of the house which was demolished in the early 20th century. After 1900 this property was owned by the Websters, Nolans and now by the Fair family. Part of Blindwell also belonged to the Agricultural Institute. |
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Rockwell | The main residence of the Lynch family throughout the 19th century, valued at £13 in the mid 1850s. |
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Cloonteen | At the time of Griffith's Valuation occupied by George Jennings when the house was valued at £7. Some ruins remain at the site. | |
Brooklawn | A Blake home occupied by John Griffin in 1814. At the time of Griffith's Valuation Charles Blake held the townland of Fartamore from James Lynch. A house valued at £10 was being leased from him by the Bord of Works. Fartamore is still extant but unoccupied. |
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Oory/Coarsefield | It is probable that the townland of Coarsefield was part of Oory in the 18th century and that Oory was divided into two townlands at the time of the first Ordnance Survey. The remains of an old house are still visible at Coarsefield, close to the present house, and it is believed that this was Oory House, home of the Bourkes and later owned by the Nettervilles. In 1814 "Course-field" belonged to James Netterville. The sales rental of the Gray estate of Coarsefield in 1861 refers to one wall remaining of the old Netterville house. |
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Ellistron Castle | A Browne castle, a house is marked close by as the residence of the Brownes in the 1770s. In 1786 Wilson refers to Ellistron as the seat of Mr. Browne. However there is no house at this location on the 1838 Ordnance Survey map but an avenue is shown there. | |
Knocknagur | Sometimes spelt Cnocnagur. | |
Gardenfield House [Kilcommon] | Another Bowen home, occupied by William Bowen in 1814. The townland was in the possession of Henry Martin Blake at the time of Griffith's Valuation. It is labelled Gardenfield House on the 25-inch edition Ordnance Survey map of the 1890s. Still a family home, renovated in the early 21st century. |
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Lisloughrey | This house is not marked on the first edition Ordnance Survey map but was built by the time Sir William Wilde's book on Lough Corrib was published in 1867. It was then occupied by William Burke, agent to Benjamin Lee Guinness. Occupied at the time of the 1901 census by Francis Turnly of Drumnasole, Garronpoint, Co Antrim, who was then agent to the Ashford estate. In the late 20th century the home of Rory Murphy manager of Ashford Castle Hotel. The building has now been greatly expanded and functions as a hotel http://www.lisloughreylodge.com |