Landed Estates
University of Galway

Lakeview/Clonoony House

Houses within 5km of this house

Displaying 7 houses.

Houses within 5km of Lakeview/Clonoony House

Displaying 7 houses.

House name Description
Hilton Park According to Shirley it was originally called Maddenstown, changed circa 1780 to Hilltown or Hilton. The Reverend Samuel Madden purchased the estate in 1734 and built the house. It was badly burnt in 1803. In Griffith’s Valuation the buildings were valued at £110 and held by John Madden in fee. The house was extensively enlarged in the 1870s for John Madden by William Hague. The gardens were designed by Ninian Niven. Hilton Park is still the family home of the Madden family where they offer luxury accommodation and authentic country house food, see http://www.hiltonpark.ie/ Photo of Hilton Park
Castle Saunderson A house built in the late 1830s incorporating an earlier building. It was the home of the Saunderson family, occupied by Colonel Alexander Saunderson in the 1850s and held by him in fee; it had a rateable valuation of £54 which had risen to £84 by 1906. This building was unoccupied and derelict in the 1990s. However it is now the location of an International Scouting Centre which opened in 2012. Photo of Castle Saunderson
Coolnacarte Marked on the 1st edition 6 inch Ordnance Survey map (1836), this building is named Coolnacarte Lodge on the 25 inch map (surveyed 1908). The Ordnance Survey Field Name Book states that Coolnacarte was ‘the property of W. Glascock Esq whose embarrassment has thrown it into the courts of Dublin; who appointed Mr Samuel Martin agent’. In the mid-19th century it was valued at £13, occupied by the Reverend Thomas Gartlan and held from Richard Henry. In 1906, William Henry M.D. was resident, when the buildings were valued at £10. The house is extant.
Clinkeehan Clinkeehan House is marked on the 25 inch Ordnance Survey Map (surveyed 1908). A house in this townland was valued at £10 in the mid-19th century and was occupied by Robert Armstrong who held it from Robert L. Ellis. Members of the Armstrong family were resident in the early 20th century. This house is extant.
Leggykelly Cottage Named on the first edition six inch Ordnance Survey map (publ. 1837), this house was occupied by Theophilus Thompson and held from the Reverend E.B.W. Venables in the 1850s. Its rateable valuation was £5. An extended building now occupies the site.
Redhill House The Whyte family were resident at Redhill from the 17th century. The first edition Ordnance Survey map (publ. 1837) marks a building in ruins which was the original castle. A house was built to the north east. The Ordnance Survey Field Name Book states that Redhill lately belonged 'to Mr White now in France, estate in Chancery, executors Mr Boyd of Cootehill and Col Clements'. The house 'is a small tho' convenient building with out-houses, the ancient castle in ruins, destroyed by fire 40 years ago.....The house is unoccupied except by a care taker’. Following the death of Francis Melville Whyte in 1833, Redhills was inherited by his niece Georgina Mary Enderby. She married the Reverend Edmund Burke Venables in 1847. Named on the first edition Ordnance Survey map (publ. 1837), Redhills was the residence of the Reverend E.B.W. Venables at the time of Griffith’s Valuation. Valued at £8, he held it in fee. Redhills was the home of the Reverend Arthur Thellusson Oddie in 1905 when he assumed the name and arms of Whyte Venables. In 1906, Georgina Whyte Venables is recorded as occupant when the mansion house was valued at £53.10.0. A building still stands on this site and the gate lodge survives. Photo of Redhill House
Lanesborough Lodge This house was built after the first edition six inch Ordnance Survey map (publ. 1837) was compiled. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage states that the original house was extended by Henry Cavendish Butler in the 1840s. In the 1850s it had a rateable valuation of £38 and was owned and occupied by the Earl of Lanesborough. The lodge was situated in Quivvy Wood located on a peninsular of land that jutted out into the River Erne, north east of Belturbet. By 1906, its rateable valuation had risen to £52. It was burnt in the early 1920s and still stands as an impressive ruin, see archiseek.com