Ballymackney

Houses within 5km of this house

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Houses within 5km of Ballymackney

Displaying 12 houses.

House name	Description
Kiltybegs	Large complex of buildings marked on the 1st edition 6 inch Ordnance Survey map (1836). This was part of the estate of Major John Leslie who held it in fee. The buildings which included a house were valued at £15. Later the home of Charles J. Leslie (see building return 1901 census) and of the land steward, George McGregor, in 1911. This house is no longer extant.
Capragh	A house located close to Capragh Lough was in existence at the time of the first Ordnance Survey in the 1830s. By the mid-19th century it was occupied by Hubert Kiernan who held the townland in fee. The buildings were valued at £15. Occupied by the Mitchell sisters in 1901 and by Mary Mitchell in 1911. Part of the yard buildings still remain at this site.
Monalty House	This house, located on the Marquess of Bath’s estate, dates from the 18th century and was the residence of the agent, Norman Steele, in 1798. In the 19th century Monalty House was the home of the Gartlan family. It was purchased by James Gartlan, a wealthy distiller in the town of Carrickmacross. Lewis records his son Thomas McEvoy Gartlan as the proprietor in the 1830s. The house is named on the 1st edition 6 inch Ordnance Survey Map (1836). Thomas M. Gartlan was recorded as the occupier in Griffith’s Valuation when the buildings were valued at £26. Members of the Gartlan family were still resident in the early 20th century. https://pdeanisland.wordpress.com/places/carrickmacross/monalty-house/
Annahean House	A house built after the first Ordnance Survey and before Griffith’s Valuation, when it was valued at £20. Catherine Kelly was resident and she held the property from the Reverend James Shirley. The house was built close to a previous residence with a tannery nearby. This was the home of the Kelly sisters in the early years of the 20th century.
Belle Vue	This house is named on the 25 inch Ordnance Survey map (survey of 1908). It was built on the Shirley estate in the mid-19th century when it was occupied by John Thomas Holland and valued at £16. John Holland was appointed a magistrate by Lord Rossmore in 1854 (Dublin Evening Mail, 11 Oct 1854). Home of the Withrington in the early 20th century, now demolished.
Shirley House	Shirley House located in the town of Carrickmacross is named on the 1st edition 6 inch Ordnance Survey Map (1836). It was the home of the agent, George Morant junior, in the 1840s and 1850s and was occupied by Shirley family members and others at various times, for example Alexander Mitchell in 1837 (Lewis, I, xlvii), Horatio Shirley of Shirley House was High Sheriff in 1872, John Thomas Holland of Shirley House died on 14 October 1881 aged 74 (The Belfast Morning News, 18 Oct 1881), Captain Evelyn Shirley was resident in 1914 and Felix Patrick Smith in 1925 (Thom’s Directory 1926). This house is now demolished.
Lisanisk	Lisanisk is situated on the outskirts of Carrickmacross and close to Lisanisk Lake. In the 1780s it was inhabited by Walter Dawson whose daughter Sarah married Archibald Hamilton Rowan. The Post Chaise Companion in the early 19th century records a Mr Gibson at Lisanisk while Lewis in the 1830s names Adam Gibson. Edward Gibson was the occupant at the time of Griffith’s Valuation when the buildings were valued at £25 and held from the Marquess of Bath. The Patrician Brothers were occupying Lisanisk by 1911. This house was offering accommodation on a B&B basis in the 2010s.
Tullyallen House	Situated very close to Tullyallen Lough on the Brownlow estate, the buildings at Tullyallen House were valued at £17 in the mid-19th century. The occupant was Anne Kelly. James Murphy, farmer and Justice of the Peace, was resident in the early 20th century.
Drumboory	Located close to a small lough a house valued at £10 was occupied by John Kenny and held from William Brownlow in the mid-19th century. A Kenny family was still located in this townland in the early 20th century.
Lough Fea House	Built in 1827 to the design of Thomas Rickman, this large house was the first residence of the Shirleys in county Monaghan, although they had owned a large estate since Elizabethan times. Lewis described this new edifice as ‘a spacious and handsome structure in the Elizabethan style of architecture’. A church and great hall were later additions. The buildings were valued at £180 circa 1860. The Shirley family continue to live at Lough Fea.
Doohatty	A building named Cottage is marked on the first edition Ordnance Survey map (1836). It was located in the same townland as Lough Fea House, the home of the Shirley family. In the mid-19th century John Cooper was the occupant and the building was valued at £12. It appears to still be extant.
Inver Lodge	Henry Edward Porter held a house in fee, valued at £14, in Magheross on the outskirts of Carrickmacross, circa 1860. This appears to be Inver Lodge which is named on the first edition Ordnance Survey map (publ. 1836). This house is still extant.