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Ballyhowly

Houses within 10km of this house

Displaying 19 houses.

Houses within 10km of Ballyhowly

Displaying 19 houses.

House name Description
Mannin The harper, Turlough O'Carolan, was a regular visitor to Mannin House and composed a number of tunes in honour of the Dillons and Betaghs. At the time of Griffith's Valuation the townland was owned by Margaret Mary "Beatty" and included a house valued at £5. The house still exists but is not inhabited. It was owned by a Mr Grogan in the 1940s. Photo of Mannin
Ballinvilla The home of the Crean family in the 19th century. Ballinvilla was held in fee by Austin F. Crean at the time of Griffith's Valuation when it was valued at £7. This house no longer exists.
Holywell At th time of Griffith's Valuation, John Burke Jnr. and Gerald Burke were jointly leasing this property from Hugh Burke, when the buildings were valued at £14. In 1786 Wilson refers to Holywell as a seat of Mr. Dillon. Some renovations were made to the house in 2005 by its current owner Eamon Healy. Photo of Holywell
Bekan The exact location of the Burke's house in the village is not known.
Eden Park Occupied by Joseph Brown at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when the property was valued at £3. Brown was leasing from Francis O'Malley. Mulloy writes that nothing remains of the house.
Thornhill Home of Charles Burke Jordan in the 19th century. At the time of Griffith's Valuation, he was leasing this property to James Jordan when it was valued at £5. The building labelled Thornhill on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map is not the same as that on the later 25-inch edition published in the 1890s. The latter is no longer extant but some buildings remain at the original site.
Ballinamore This house was the home of the Ormsby family in the 18th and 19th centuries. It was held in fee by Anthony Ormsby at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £40. In 1786 Wilson refers to it as " the beautiful seat of Thomas Ormsby". In 1938 the Ormsbys sold Ballinamore to a Scottish order of nuns, the Order of St John, who used the house as a school. The building was donated to Western Care in the 1970s. It now functions as a nursing home. Photo of Ballinamore
Oxford The home of members of the Joyce family in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, later held by the Tuohys in fee. In 1786 Wilson refers to it as the seat of "Mr. Joice". The house and over 740 acres held in fee by Martin Joyes were advertised for sale in the ''The Telegraph'' [Connaught Telegraph] of 13 July 1831. The original house is now a ruin. Photo of Oxford
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.
Claremount Built in the 18th century, this house was the home of George Browne, third son of the 1st Earl of Altamont, in the 1760s. His daughter and heiress married Dominick Browne of Castlemagarret and ownership of Claremount appears to have passed to the Castlemagarret Brownes. The Kirwans and Denis Browne of Westport lived in the house in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It was bought by Murray McGregor Blacker from Lord Oranmore and Browne in 1858 for £4,250. Blacker owned the house until 1874. In 1877 the house and about 313 acres were sold to the local parish priest by Thomas D. Maguire for the purpose of establishing a Convent of Mercy. The nuns ran a girls' secondary school in the house. In October 1906 just over 300 acres of Claremount was vested in the Congested Districts' Board. Photo of Claremount
Curraghleagh Lodge The O'Moore sales rental of 1852 states that Isidore Bourke held Murneen North by a lease dated 1844, for 500 years. At the time of Griffith's Valuation he was leasing this property from Garret O'Moore when the house was valued at £30. This building is labelled Curraghleagh Lodge on the 25-inch Ordnance Survey map of the 1890s. A building much reduced in size is visible at the site.
Brees/Brize The original castle was the home of the Moore family in the 17th century. A house was later built which was the home of the Coghlan family in the early 19th century and was occupied by John and Mathew Anderson at the time of Griffith's Valuation, see http://familyhistory.oram.ca/burrishoole/?page_id=1345 . A house is still extant at this site. Photo of Brees/Brize
Cloonboy House The home of John Coghlan at the time of Griffith's Valuation, held from the Lynch Blosse estate when the house was valued at £10. It is still extant.
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.
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. Photo of Brookhill
Ballygowan Cottage A Prendergast home in the 19th century, now in an advanced state of disrepair. The property was held in fee by Richard Prendergast at the time of Griffith's Valuation when it was valued at almost £10. Photo of Ballygowan Cottage
Castlegar Occupied by Ignatius Kelly in 1814, by William T. Kelly at the time of Griffith's Valuation and by Edward Dale in 1906. In the 20th century it became a boys' secondary school. There is a lithograph of the house in the sale rental for Castlemagarret in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland.
Rockfield Marked on the first edition Ordnance Survey map, this house was occupied by Henry French at the time of Griffith's Valution and was described as a herd's house. It was valued at £4 and was located on the estate of Lord Oranmore and Browne. Now derelict it was last occupied by the Dillon family. Photo of Rockfield
Cloontreston The notice advertising the sale of Michael Francis Treston's property at Cloontooa, barony of Clanmorris states that "the dwelling house with the offices, garden and demesne, known as Cloontreston, is in fair order and condition, suitable as a residence for a gentleman". At the time of Griffith's Valuation the townland was owned by John Treston who also held a herd's house there. The house is labelled Cloontreston on twentieth century maps. Buildings are still extant at the site.