Mill Mount House/Carrickaderry
Houses within 5km of this house
Displaying 6 houses.
Houses within 5km of Mill Mount House/Carrickaderry
Displaying 6 houses.
| House name | Description | |
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| Castleshane | Castleshane was the home of the Lucas family from the mid-17th century. The original house was described by Lewis as ‘an ancient mansion in a highly enriched and tastefully embellished demesne’. In 1836 it was replaced by a Elizabethan or Jacobean style house built for the Right Honourable Edward Lucas. It was valued at £160 in the mid-19th century and in 1906 when surrounded by 359 acres of untenanted land. Occupied by the Honourable Kathleen Vereker in 1901 and by servants in 1911, this house was burnt on 15 February 1920. Tarquin Blake has documented the remains in his second volume of Abandoned Houses. | |
| Rockfield (Moysnaght) | A house on the Lucas estate, approached by a long avenue, it is marked on the 1st edition 6 inch Ordnance Survey map (1836). The extended house is named on the 25 inch map (surveyed 1908). In the mid-19th century it was occupied by Joseph Gray and valued at £14. John Gray and his family were resident in 1901. Occupied by William Morrison and his wife in 1911. A building is still located at this site. McSkane writes that this house was built around 1850 for Mr John Niblock and the Niblocks lived here until 1900 when it was bought by John Gray an RIC officer (local informant). A Letitia Niblock was resident in this townland in the mid-19th century. Later the home of James Agnew. | |
| Rockfield House (Avalreagh) | Rockfield House, a home of a branch of the Swanzy family, is named on the 1st edition 6 inch Ordnance Survey map (1836). Lewis refers to it as the residence of H. Swanzy. Henry Swanzy died in 1843 and his daughter Anne is recorded as the occupant in the 1850s when the house was valued at £14. Miss Kate Green Swanzy was the head of the household living here in 1901 and 1911. There was a name change to Avalreagh House at the beginning of the 20th century. McSkane writes that the Swanzy family lived here from the early 1700s until 1919 when it was bought by Larry Ward. | |
| Greenmount | Marked on the 1st edition 6 inch Ordnance Survey map (1836) this house was described as a thatched 2 storey house with an orchard and nursery. The grounds were planted all-round the house. It was extended after Griffith’s Valuation and was the home of the agents for the Castleshane estate. At the beginning of the 20th century it was occupied by William Martin, land agent. In the 1920s Martin purchased Greenmount and following the death of his sister in 1949 it was sold to Albert Noble. |
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| Harry Mount | The Ordnance Survey Field Name Book describes this house as a small, thatched, one storey farm house, with a garden and orchard. The house was on the Lucas estate and is named on the 1st edition 6 inch Ordnance Survey map (1836). The buildings at Harry Mount, which included a flax mill, were valued at £12.10 shillings in Griffith’s Valuation when the house was occupied by Charles Carson. The Carson family were still resident at the beginning of the 20th century. McSkane writes that this was a thatched building which remained thatched up to the 1950s. Built for Henry Swanzy circa 1816 and sold to James Carson from Ballybay in 1839. | |
| Woodview | Situated on the Lucas estate, this house was not built at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (circa 1860) as there is no house in the townland of more than £2.10.0. valuation. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage records that it is believed to have been built as a house for the agent to the Castleshane estate. |