Upper Thornhill House
Houses within 10km of this house
Displaying 3 houses.
Houses within 10km of Upper Thornhill House
Displaying 3 houses.
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| Glenfarne Hall | Glenfarne Hall, overlooking Lough MacNean, was built around 1820 for Charles Henry Tottenham. In 1906 it was owned by Col. J.G. Adamson and was valued at £50. It was subsequently a holiday home of Edward Harland of Harland & Wolf shipyards in Belfast. The 1943 Irish Tourist Association survey recorded that only the gutted ruins of the house remained.The area has been extensively afforested since then and is now part of a forest park owned by Coillte. |
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| Corrard | Located on the Parker estate the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage states that there have been three houses built on this site, the present house dates from the 1920s while the original was a small structure marked on the first edition six inch Ordnance Survey map (publ. 1837). John Carson occupied Corrard at the time of Griffith’s Valuation. The buildings were valued at £10. The Carson family were still resident at the beginning of the 20th century. |
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| Tuam House | Located on the Saunders estate, outside the village of Blacklion, the present house replaced a former building marked on the first edition six inch Ordnance Survey map (publ. 1837). The Hassards lived at Tuam in the 18th century. Griffith’s Valuation records Hugh Bracken as the occupier, when the building was valued at £5. Hugh married Elizabeth Copeland and died in 1861. In 1876, James Bracken of Tuam House owned 51 acres county Cavan and 1,268 acres in county Fermanagh. Members of the Bracken family were resident at Tuam throughout the 20th century. The name of this house is sometimes spelt Toam. It is well maintained and occupied. |
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