Landed Estates
University of Galway

Lehinch

Houses within 5km of this house

Displaying 12 houses.

Houses within 5km of Lehinch

Displaying 12 houses.

House name Description
Purrauns Home of a branch of the Bell family of county Mayo and occupied by the Lynches in the mid 19th century. At the time of Griffith's Valuation it was occupied by Patrick King leasing from James Lynch when the buildings were valued at £5. Buildings are still extant at the site. Photo of Purrauns
Hollybrook In 1786, Wilson refers to Boullybeg as the seat of Mr. Crean. This house was the home of the Creans and Crean Lynches. At the time of Griffith's Valuation the house was occupied by Ephraim and George Anderson, leasing from Patrick C. Lynch, when it was valued at £25. It is now a ruin. Photo of Hollybrook
Cloonnagashel A house inhabited by the Gildea family from the mid 18th century and situated on the estate of the Earls of Lucan. Wilson refers to it as the seat of James Gildea in 1786. It was the home of James Simpson between 1855 and 1880 , valued at £25 at the time of Griffith's Valuation. Later occupied by the Egan family. It now functions as the club house for Ballinrobe Golf Club. Photo of Cloonnagashel
Kilrush A house in the village of Hollymount, leased by Christopher Bowen from Reverend Christopher Bowen's estate at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £25. Only a few walls remain now. Photo of Kilrush
Kilrush House Built as an agricultural school in the 1830s, it was not a success and swiftly closed. The property was rented in the 1850s from the Lindseys by Francis Laurie, a farmer from Scotland. He died in 1865 and James Simpson took over the lease. Charles Bingham Jenings and his wife, formerly of Mount Jenings, lived at Kilrush for the first three years of the 20th century. The building is now a ruin. Photo of Kilrush House
Hollymount A very early 18th century house built by Archbishop John Vesey of Tuam, altered in the 19th century. In 1786 Wilson refers to it as the seat of Mr. Lindsay. It was held in fee by Thomas S. Lindsay at the time of Griffith's Valuation when it was valued at £61. The home of the Lindsey Fitzpatricks until 1922 and of Mr J Loftus in the 1940s, now a ruin. Photo of Hollymount
Togher Originally a Lambert residence but occupied by George Ruttledge by 1837. It was held in fee by John Hood at the time of Griffith's Valuation when it was valued at £13.. It became the home of his fourth son, Charles Ralph Hood. This house is now completely demolished.
Bloomfield Built circa 1776, it was the seat of the Ruttledge family. At the time of Griffith's Valuation it was held in fee by Robert Ruttledge and valued at £50. It was also the seat of Robert Ruttledge in 1894. Sold to the Land Commission in 1924 and later abandoned following a fire. Photo of Bloomfield
Bushfield The original house, now a ruin, was sometimes known as Creaghduff. Creaghduff was occupied by Burke esq in the 1770s. Thomas Ruttledge of Bloomfield made his will at Bushfield in 1797 and died there in 1805. Bushfield was the home of Arthur Knox and his wife Barbara, nee Lambert. Their daughter, Elizabeth, married Annesley Knox of Rappa Castle. Barbara married Charles White as her second husband and sublet the house to Robert Fair, son of Robert Fair of Fortville. It was valued at £15 the time of Griffith's Valuation. Robert Fair of Bushfield had an only daughter, Jane, who married Thomas Ruttledge of Bloomfield and their second son took the surname Ruttledge Fair. A new house was built in the 1920s and is the home of the Delaney family. Extensive remains of the original Bushfield farmyard survive at the site. Photo of Bushfield
Beechgrove This house was leased by George Rutledge from Robert Fair at the time of Griffith's Valuation when it was valued at £10. Beechgrove was noted by Lewis as a residence of the Brannick family in 1837. It is still extant but unoccupied. Photo of Beechgrove
Clooncormick Home of the Gildea family in the 19th century and of the McCartan family in the late 20th century until it was destroyed by a fire. Francis Knox Gildea was leasing from James Knox Gildea at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when the property was valued at £45. No trace of the house remains but much of the stable yard is still extant. Photo of Clooncormick
Gardenfield House [Kilcommon] Another Bowen home, occupied by William Bowen in 1814. The townland was in the possession of Henry Martin Blake at the time of Griffith's Valuation. It is labelled Gardenfield House on the 25-inch edition Ordnance Survey map of the 1890s. Still a family home, renovated in the early 21st century. Photo of Gardenfield House [Kilcommon]