Tuam House

Houses within 15km of this house

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Houses within 15km of Tuam House

Displaying 6 houses.

House name	Description
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.
Fortland Cottage	Fortland Cottage was built on part of the Cullen estate in the 18th and was the home of Jane Cullen and her husband G. Gledstanes in the mid-nineteenth century.
Fortland House	John Massy was leasing a building valued at £8 to John Rutherford here in 1856. This is Fortland House which is still extant and occupied.
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.
Upper Thornhill House	Burke’s Landed Gentry of Ireland (1958) records the Nixon family of Thornhill in the 18th century. Thornhill was located on the Parker estate. By the mid-19th century William Nixon was the occupier. The house was valued at £6. The Nixon family continue to live here in the early 20th century. This house is no longer occupied.
Tircahan Lodge	Francis Hassard of Tircahan Lodge, also known as Rockwood, is recorded in a sale rental of the Encumbered Estates Court in 1852. He sold part of his estate to Robert Hutton. In the mid-19th century Tircahan Lodge, a building named on the first edition six inch Ordnance Survey map (publ. 1837), was occupied by Henry Breen, who held the house, valued at £8, from Robert Hutton. It is located south of Swanlinbar. In the 1890s the original lodge was replaced by a larger more compact building which still stands today although now derelict. Robert Hutton JP lived here with his family in the early 20th century. In 1906, Georgina Hutton was recorded as the occupier when the 'mansion' house was valued at £17 for rates.