Carrickmore House (Furbo)

Houses within 10km of this house

Displaying 24 houses.

Houses within 10km of Carrickmore House (Furbo)

Displaying 24 houses.

House name	Description
Furbogh House	At the time of Griffith's Valution, Andrew Blake held this property in fee when it was valued at £34. Furbough was demolished in the later twentieth century. The remains of the walled garden are still visible.
Corcullen/Kirkullen House	The house valued at £21 was vacant at the time of Griffith's Valuation. Michael D. Browne was the immediate lessor. It is shown as a considerably enlarged structure on the 25-inch map of the 1890s. Buildings are still extant at the site.
Manor House [Spiddle House]	The house at this site is named Spiddle House on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map. A much larger house, labelled Manor House, is shown on the 25-inch map of the 1890s. The house was held in fee by Thomas Bunbury at the time of Griffith's Valuation and was valued at £15. Modern buildings are extant at the site now.
Lenaboy Castle	This property was held in fee by James O'Hara at the time of Griffith's Valuation when it was valued at £40. In 1786 Wilson refers to a house at Galway which was the seat of Geoffrey O'Hara. Bence Jones describes the house as Tudor Gothic, early to mid 19th century, while the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage notes that the current building is dated 1859. It is now a Health Services facility.
Seamount Lodge	The Clanmorris family had a residence in the Salthill area of Galway at Pollnarooma East parish of Rahoon, leased from Richard Sloper. It was valued at £21 at the time of Griffith's Valuation. A house named Seamount Lodge is marked on the first Ordnance Survey map in this townland. Seamount was the home of Sebastian Nolan of the Ballinderry family in the late 19th century. It was in use as a nursing home in the twentieth century before being demolished to make way for the housing estate of the same name.
Barna	Wilson refers to Barna as the seat of Mr. Lynch in 1786. Nicholas Lynch held this property in fee at the time of Griffith's Valuation,when it was valued at £20. It was the seat of Marcus Lynch in 1894 and the family were still resident in the early 20th century. The house is still extant surrounded by an apartment development.
Menlo/Menlough Castle	A 17th century tower house with substantial additions. In 1786 Wilson refers to it as the seat of Sir Thomas Blake. Menlo Castle was occupied by Thomas Blake at the time of Griffith's Valuation when it was valued at £30. It continued to be the home of the Blake family until the house was burnt by an accidental fire in 1910 and has been a ruin ever since.
Glenlo	A house called Kentville was occupied by the Martin family in the late 18th century though Wilson mentions a Mr. Irwin living there in 1786. By 1824 Thomas Redington was occupying Glenlo, which became the home of Thomas Blake in the mid 19th century and of the Palmers in the late 19th century. Now functions as a hotel.
Riverview	At the time of Griffith's Valuation held by James Browne in fee and valued at £14. It is described as "in ruins" on the 25-inch Ordnance Survey map of the 1890s.
Brownville	This house was originally known as Eyreville and was leased by the Martins to the Eyres in the latter half of the 18th century. Wilson refers to it as the seat of Mr. Eyre in 1786. In 1808 it was sold to James Valentine Browne and the name of the house was changed to Brownville. In the later 19th century it was the home of Dr McCormack, the Bishop of Galway. Portions of the original house may have been incorporated into out-buildings at the rear of the site.
Woodstock	In 1786 Wilson refers to Woodstock as the seat of R. Shaw. The home of Stephen Blake in 1814, it later became the home of the Comyn family. The house was burnt down in June 1877 and never rebuilt. The family mainly resided in France afterwards.
Killeen	Originally known as New Park, Killeen House was bought by Peter S. Comyn from the Martins in 1849 and it became his main residence. He died in 1866 and left the house to his niece Rose Comyn. It is still extant and was run as a luxury guesthouse until 2008.
Bushy Park	In 1786 Wilson refer to Bushy Park as the seat of Mr. Burke. Occupied by Edward McDonnell in 1814. Two generations of the Martins lived in this house in the 19th century. At the time of Griffith's Valuation, it was occupied by Robert J. Martin and was valued at £12. It is still extant and occupied.
Newcastle	In 1786 Wilson refers to Newcastle as the seat of Thomas Browne. In the nineteenth century a Persse residence close to their distillery at Nun's Island and their milling operations. Newcastle House was the home of Henry Stratford Persse in the early 19th century. It was later acquired by University College, Galway but was demolished in the early 1970s to make way for new buildings.
Dangan House	In 1786 Wilson writes that "Dangin" was the seat of Richard Martin, "beautifully situated on the banks of the fine river Corrib". Occupied by George Symmes in 1814. The Ordnance Survey Books describe it as "a 3 storey house belonging to the proprietor of the townland, Thomas Redington". It remained the home of the Redington family for most of the 19th century. The house labelled Dangan House on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map is located very close to the bank of the River Corrib (M283277). By the 1890s it has moved to a site in closer to the centre of the townland. It is now occupied by the Cunningham family who run a garden centre at the same location. A property known as "Dangan Cottage" was located nearby (M280274) but is described as "in ruins" on the 25-inch Ordnance map of the 1890s. Kinmonth states that this property was leased by American artists, including J. Lizzie Cloud, in the 1870s.
Nile Lodge	Nile Lodge is associated with the O'Hara family though at the time of Griffith's Valuation, it was leased by Edward C. Burke from Mark Lynch and valued at £35. It is still extant and occupied.
Rahoon House	In 1786 Wilson refers to Rahoon as the seat of Mr. French. In the early 19th century it was a Bodkin house, occupied by Roderick O'Connor at the time of the first Ordnance survey. It was held in fee by Thomas C. Dickson at the time of Grifith's Valuation and valued at £27. This house was bought by Kennedy O'Brien in the early 1870s and remained in his family's possession until the 1930s. Buildings are still extant at the site.
Mount Vernon	The 1882 sale notice for the Burke estate mentions that Mount Vernon cost over £5000 to build a short time before.
Glenarde	Town house of the Persse family, built in the mid 19th century, bought by the Bolands of Bolands biscuits in the 1920s and since the early 1960s has functioned as the Ardilaun House Hotel.
Marino Cottage	This house, labelled Marino Cottage on the First Edition Ordnance Survey map,was vacant at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was part of the estate of Andrew Blake. It had a valuation of over £23 at that time. The house no longer exists, having been replaced in the twentieth century by the Connemara Coast Hotel complex.
Kingston House (Galway)	Richard N. Somerville was the owner of over 70 acres in the county of the town of Galway in the 1870s. He was the owner of Kingston House at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £14 and was unoccupied. By the 1890s it was occupied by a religious order.
Albano Cottage	At the time of Griffith's Valuation, Rev. Peter Daly was leasing this property from James Browne when the buildings were valued at £9. It is still extant and occupied.
Spiddle House	The 1st edition Ordnance Survey map shows a house known as Bohoona Lodge on a site adjacent to the present Spiddle House. The latter property appears on the 25-inch map of the 1890s. At the time of Griffith's Valuation, John Farrer was leasing a property in this townland from Martin Morris. It was valued at £8. The house has recently been restored.
Fort Eyre	At the time of Griffith's Valuation a property here, owned by Reverend E. Maunsell, was being leased by Richard A.H. Kirwan and was valued at £42. The house is labelled Fort Eyre on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map. It is still extant.