Slacksgrove/Hollywood House

Houses within 5km of this house

Displaying 24 houses.

Houses within 5km of Slacksgrove/Hollywood House

Displaying 24 houses.

House name	Description
Carrachor	Carrachor House is named on the 1st edition 6 inch Ordnance Survey map (1836) and Lewis records J. Wright as the proprietor. It was later expanded and by the mid-19th century was held by Joseph C. Wright in fee. The buildings were valued at £16. In the early 20th century Joseph Mitchell and his wife Elizabeth were resident. Joseph Mitchell may have been a relative of the Wrights. The house is still extant.
Gola	Built in 1703 by Joseph Wright son of James Wright and his second wife Mary Slacke (www.thesilverbowl.com). It was the home of the Wright later Woodwright family in the 18th and 19th centuries. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation the Reverend William E. H. Woodwright was resident. The buildings were valued at £25. In 1901, Patrick Callaghan, steward, was resident in Gola. Sir John Banks (1815-1908) was the proprietor. He was a well-known Dublin physican who had married in 1848 Alice Woodwright. Their only child Mary married Willoughby Burrell 4th Baron Gwydyr in 1873. On 25 February 1921 Gola was burnt and subsequently demolished.
Brandrum	An early 18th century house located on the Cole of Florence Court estate. Early residents were Edward Mayne of the Mount Sedborough family and the Reverend Robert Montgomery, whose mother was a Cole. The house was close to another 18th century Montgomery home Ballyleck. It is named on the 1st edition 6 inch Ordnance Survey Map (1836). The Ordnance Survey Field Name Book states that ‘Brandrim is a delightful residence, there is an excellent house with good offices and gardens attached; the grounds well laid out and well planted’. Lewis records Owen Blayney Cole as the proprietor and he was leasing the property to Thomas Coote at the time of Griffith’s Valuation. The buildings were valued at £35. Brandrum was the home of Hugh Gill Patterson and family in the early 20th century. This house is now a ruin.
Ballyleck	Alexander Montgomery, Member of Parliament for county Tyrone, had this house built in the mid-18th century. By the early 19th century Ballyleck had become part of the estate of the Westenra family, Barons Rossmore. The house is named on the 1st edition 6 inch Ordnance Survey Map (1836). Lewis records the Honourable Richard Westenra as resident. He died in 1838. Circa 1860 William M’Keane was the occupier holding the property from Henrietta Westenra. It was valued at £36. A few years later it had become the home of Jesse Lloyd , a brother of Lady Rossmore. This house with extensive outbuildings was the home of Lucius O’Brien and family in 1901 and of William Black and family in 1911. This house is still extant.
Cornecassa	This house was the home of the Hamilton family from the early 19th century built by Dacre Hamilton. Lewis records it as the home of Dacre Hamilton, son of Sir James, who was agent for the Rossmore, Castleshane and Templeton estates. Cornakessagh House is named on the 1st edition 6 inch Ordnance Survey map (1836). At the time it had extensive laid out gardens and some plantations. James Hamilton was the occupant at the time of Griffith’s Valuation, circa 1860. He held the property from Lord Rossmore. It was valued at £120. The library was sold in 1922 following the death of Captain Hamilton. The main part of the house was demolished in 1934. The service wing survives as does the farmyard complex. See http://archiseek.com/2016/cornacassa-house-monaghan-co-monaghan/
Clonamully	This house, sometimes spelt Clenamully, was the home of the Fiddes family in the 19th century. Members of the Fiddes family were land agents. Located on the Lewis, formerly Scott estate, it was named on the 1st edition 6 inch Ordnance Survey map (1836) and had a walled garden. The Reverend James Fiddes was rector of the parish of Drumsnat. Edward Fiddes who inhabited the house in the 1830s and at the time of Griffith’s Valuation was the Reverend James’ son and agent to the Rose estate. Edward died in 1868, aged 78, and was buried in Drumsnat graveyard. In 1901, Joseph Fiddes, land agent, was the occupier and in 1911 four of his children were living in the house. The original house has had additions and alterations.
Raconnell	Raconnell belonged to the Owen family in the 18th century. The will of Nicholas Owen of Raconnell is dated 1 May 1759. Possession of this townland passed to the Lucas and Cole families through marriage. It is named on the 1st edition 6 inch Ordnance Survey map (1836) with a substantial yard and walled garden to the rear. Occupied by Colonel R. Lucas in the 1830s. Edward William Lucas lived here at the time of Griffith’s Valuation when the buildings were valued at £24. By the mid-1870s Thomas Coote was occupying Raconnell. Raconnell House is still extant but unoccupied.
Newgrove	This locality was in the possession of Blayney Owen described as ‘of Newgrove’ in the early 18th century. In the 1830s, Lewis records M. Hawkshaw as resident at Newgrove, located on the Lucas estate. By the early 1860s Thomas C. Sterne was the occupier when the buildings were valued at £8.10.0. Home of the Wilson family in the early 20th century.
Mullaghmore	This was the home of James Rose and after his death in 1841 of his niece Gertrude. It was described by Lewis in the 1830s as ‘greatly improved and extensively planted’. The buildings were valued at £38 at the time of Griffith’s Valuation circa 1860 but the house was unoccupied at the time. Gertrude Rose was, however, resident in 1901. Home of Sir Robert Anderson, Mayor of Belfast 1908, for a few years; his widow was living at Mullaghmore in 1911. The house was later the home of a Captain Taft and was destroyed by a fire in 1925 (New Zealand Tablet, 8 April 1925, 47).
Mont Louise	Home of the Evatt family in the 19th century, R. Evatt was resident in the 1830s. Samuel Evatt was the occupier circa 1860. He held the property in fee and the buildings were valued at £9. Home of George F. Evatt at the beginning of the 20th century. A building is still located at this site.
Drumreask	Built circa 1840 for Alexander Mitchell, agent to the Shirley estate. This house was the home of the Mitchell family until sold in 1864 to the Kane family. It is named on the 1st edition 6 inch Ordnance Survey map (1836) with an extensive walled garden at the rear. Griffith’s Valuation records the value of the buildings at £25 held by Henry Mitchell in fee. It was still in the ownership of the Kane family in the early 20th century. The house was derelict in the early 21st century. It was purchased by millionaire Gerry McCaughey with a view to turning it into a hotel and equestrian centre (Irish Independent, 25 May 2008) but this does not seem to have come to fruition.
Drummaconor	A building is marked at this site on the 1st edition 6 inch Ordnance Survey Map (1836) and named on the 25 inch map (surveyed in 1908). In the mid-19th century the house was occupied by John Fawcett who held the property in fee. The buildings were valued at £12. It was at a Halloween ball in this house in 1871 that the dresses of two daughters of Sir William Wilde caught fire causing their deaths a few days later. The ball was hosted by a local bank manager Mr Reid. James Treanor and his family were resident in the early 20th century. He was a farmer and local magistrate. This house is still extant and has functioned as a guest house. For photo circa 1905, see https://madaboutmonaghan.ie/kilmore-and-drumsnatt
Selloo	A building at this site is marked on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map (1836) and named on the 25 inch map. In 1853 Selloo described as a 'convenient residence, placed in an ornamentally planted demesne, and also a corn mill, kiln etc' was advertised for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court by Joseph Whitsitt. This was the home of the Pringle family in the mid-19th century, valued at £18 and held in fee by William Pringle. The Hunter and Deering families occupied the house in 1901 and 1911 while Thomas A. Pringle was the landholder. It appears to be currently extant.
Cappog House	A house built in the mid-19th century, valued at £10 circa 1860 and occupied by Richard Blakely and held from Henry Mitchell. In the early 20th century home of Ernest Henry Greene, a distinguished Irish tennis player & his wife Georgiana, a painter. This house appears to be still extant.
Clontoe	A house valued at £7 occupied and held in fee by John Wright at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (circa 1860). Still in the possession of the representatives of J. Wright at the beginning of the 20th century, it was occupied by the Humphries family.
Lisdoogan	A small building marked at this site on the 1st edition 6 inch Ordnance Survey map (1836). It was valued at £8 in the mid-19th century and John Stephenson was the occupier holding the property from Henry Mitchell. The building was enlarged at about this time and again circa 1900 to create the substantial building of today. James Mitchell, formerly Clerk of the Union, and his family were resident at the beginning of the 20th century.
Kilcorran House	This 18th century house has a date stone over the door 1756. In the mid-19th century it was the residence of William Beatty held in fee. Kilcorran remained the home of the Beatty family until at least the mid-1940s when Rowland Beatty/Betty died there.
Aghnamallagh House	James A. Mayne lived in this house in the mid-19th century. He held it in fee and the buildings were valued at £22. This was the home of the Elliot family in the early 20th century. The house is still extant. see https://www.geograph.ie/photo/897268
Thornhill (Drumsnat)	John Johnston is described in the Ordnance Survey Field Name Book as the only gentleman resident in the parish. He lived at Thornhill. On 13 June June 1854, this house and a demesne of about 40 acres was for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court. The owners and petitioners were Mary Johnson, widow, Maria and Jane Johnson and Martha Dudgeon, formerly Johnson. The property was held under a lease (1738) for 999 years. By the time of Griffith’s Valuation Robert Thomson was the occupant holding the property from Owen B. Cole & Olivia Lucas. The buildings were valued at £25. Home of Felix P. Smith and family in 1911.
Mullynahinch House	The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage dates this house circa 1860. Griffith’s Valuation gave a valuation of £12 for the buildings. John C. M’Adams was resident holding the property from Charles Hopes. Bachelor members of the Temple family lived here in the early 20th century.
Rosefield	A house built in the early 18th century close to Rosefield Lake, it was the home of the Rose family and by the 1760s of Thomas Tenison and later of Alexander Montgomery. By the early 19th century Ralph Dudgeon was the occupant. He is recorded in the Tithe Applotment Book and in Lewis’ Topographical Dictionary. Valued at £16 and the residence of Samuel Mitchell held from the trustees of Captain Slake [Slack] circa 1860. Home of Henry Mitchell and his siblings in the early 20th century.
Tullaghan	The ruins of Tullaghan House are marked on the 1st edition 6 inch Ordnance Survey map (1836). It was located on the estate of Lord Rossmore. Lewis writes in the 1830s that Tullaghan belonged to the Reverend Sir Thomas Forster Bart. ‘whose family formally resided here’. By the time of Griffith’s Valuation a herd’s house had been erected close by. It is named Tullaghan House on the 25 inch map (surveyed 1908).
Carrowbarra House	In 1798 ‘Carrowbarragh’ was associated with William Campbell an attorney-at-law who immigrated to Canada. In the 1830s Lewis records Carrowbarrow as the home of the Reverend Michael Fox Dudgeon who married Mary Moore of Moore Fort, Ballymoney, Co Antrim. Later he was vicar of Cratfield, Surrey. Henry Dudgeon occupied a house valued at £1.10.0. in Carrowbarra Island at the time of Griffith’s Valuation. He held the property from Owen B. Cole and Olivia Lucas. Owen B. Cole and Olivia Lucas were the lessor of the townlands of Carrowbarra and Carrowbarra Island. Mary Johnston occupied a house valued at £6 in Carrowbarra townland in the 1850s. A substantial house named Carrowbarra House is marked on the 25 inch map in Carrowbarra Island.
Riversdale (Tedavnet)	This house is marked on the 1st edition 6 inch Ordnance Survey map (1836) and on the 25 inch map (surveyed 1908) it is named. It was located on the outskirts of the village of Bellanode, close to the River Blackwater and to a number of mills. Occupied by Thomas Wright in the mid-19th century and held from Henry Mitchell, the buildings were valued at £6.10.0. A building is still extant at this site.