Beckscourt House

Houses within 15km of this house

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Houses within 15km of Beckscourt House

Displaying 29 houses.

House name	Description
Raferagh	A complex of buildings which included a house, corn mill, scotch mill and kiln were valued at £12 in the mid-19th century. Occupied by James Johnston they were located on the Shirley estate. This group of buildings is now much reduced in size.
Derrylavan	A small building was located at this site on the 1st edition 6 inch Ordnance Survey Map (1836). The buildings were valued at £16 circa 1860 when William Lane was resident. He held 218 acres, about half the townland from Evelyn P. Shirley. Lough Fea was nearby. There was a milling complex a short distance away in the same townland. This house appears to be still extant.
Drummond Cottage	Named on the 1st edition 6 inch Ordnance Survey Map (1836) this house with a farm of 125 acres was the home of the Kelly family in the mid-19th century. Thomas Kelly was resident holding the property from Mary Anne Kelly. Most of the townland belonged to the Porter family. A Mary Anne Jones Kelly of Priorland, Dundalk, owned 200 acres in county Monaghan in 1876. This cottage and its outbuildings date from the early 19th century and still survive.
Losset House	This house was built in the mid-19th century on the Shirley estate, close to Lough Fea Castle. It was valued at £8 and occupied by William Roarke.
Lough Bawn House	Situated close to the shore of Lough Bawn a building at this location has been home to the Tenison family for three centuries. A family member now runs a forestry farm at Lough Bawn. Much of the original house built circa 1760 was destroyed by fire in the late 18th century. The present house dates from the early 19th century and incorporates some of the earlier building with subsequent enlargements. Lewis records the occupant as W. Tenison and Griffith’s records the house, valued at £30, as unoccupied. Still valued at £30 in 1906 when this house was occupied by Major William Tenison.
Derrygoony	A house associated with the milling business of Richard Allen Minnett who held the property in fee. It is mentioned by Samuel Lewis in his topographical dictionary of 1837. The buildings, which included a house, offices and flax mill, were valued at £35 in the mid-19th century. The house is named on the 25 inch Ordnance Survey map. In 1901 and 1911, the house was occupied by Patrick Connolly, a farmer and mill proprietor and his family. The site is now planted with trees.
Bailieborough Castle/Lisgar Castle	A Scottish planter named William Bailie built a castle here in the early 17th century. It passed into the possession of a number of prominent families Hamilton, Stewart and Corry until it was sold to Colonel William Young in 1814. His son, Sir John Young, later created 1st Baron Lisgar, built a new house on the site in the 1860s. At the end of the 19th century the house was sold to Sir Henry Cochrane and in 1915 to the Marist Brothers of Athlone. Badly damaged by fire in 1918 but reconstructed, the house was eventually demolished in 1942. For image see https://www.archiseek.com/
Spear Vale/Vale House	In 1814, Ambrose Leet refers to William Spear of Spear Vale, Bailieborough. In 1837, Lewis described the home of W. Spear as comfortable with an extensive bleach green about one mile from the town. The Reverend Frederick FitzPatrick occupied the house in the mid-19th century holding it from William Spear. The buildings had a rateable valuation of £12. This house is no longer extant.
Spear Vale/Vale House	In 1814, Ambrose Leet refers to William Spear of Spear Vale, Bailieborough. In 1837, Lewis described the home of W. Spear as comfortable with an extensive bleach green about one mile from the town. The Reverend Frederick FitzPatrick occupied the house in the mid-19th century holding it from William Spear. The buildings had a rateable valuation of £12. This house is no longer extant.
Cabra Cottage	This house was the home of the Pratt family until Cormey Castle was purchased in 1813 and was renamed Cabra Castle. Cabra Cottage is shown on the first edition six inch Ordnance Survey map (publ. 1837) as a substantial building close to a mill race, quarry and the ruins of the first Cabra Castle. Bence Jones describes this building as an early 18th century villa possibly designed by Sir Edward Lovett Pearce. He writes that it was used as a ballroom following the Pratts move to live in their new home in Cormey. In the mid-19th century it was valued at £20 for rates and Colonel Joseph Pratt was the owner and occupier. The 25 inch map shows the building much reduced in size. Bence Jones writes that it was destroyed by fire in the 1950s.
Corraneary House	18th century generations of the Adams family of Shercock lived at Corraneary, Knockbride, county Cavan, possibly in a building marked on the first edition six inch Ordnance Survey map (publ. 1837) slightly to the north east of the later house. Corraneary House was built circa 1850. It was the home of Colonel Fulke Southwell Greville, held by him in fee and valued at £23. The house was part of the Greville estate offered for sale in 1864, when it was described as an ‘excellent modern dwelling house with suitable and extensive out-offices, handsomely situated on the banks of Corraneary Lake. It was erected about fifteen or sixteen years since, at an expenditure exceeding £2,000’. Occupied by local magistrate and farmer, Lewis H. Grier and family, in 1901 and by John Blair Moffatt and family in 1911.
Cabra Castle	The second Cabra Castle, probably incorporating the old Cormey Castle, was complete by the late 1830s. It is located on the county border between Cavan and Meath. A castellated building of Gothic appearance Cabra Castle had a rateable valuation of £70 in the mid-19th century when occupied and owned by Colonel Pratt. It continued to be the main residence of the Pratts until the mid -0th century when it was inherited by a relative, Mervyn Sheppard, who sold it in the mid-1960s. It now functions as a hotel. https://www.cabracastle.com/
Corrinshigo House	Corrinshigo House was located to the west of the other two Pratt homes, Cabra Cottage and Castle. It is named on the first edition six inch Ordnance Survey map (publ. 1837). Lewis records it as the residence of J. Pratt and Griffith’s Valuation records Francis Pratt as the occupier holding the property from Frances E. Pratt. It had a rateable valuation of £15. Occupied by George Pratt and his mother in 1901. Now a green field site.
Mullantra	Mullantra was located on the border between counties Cavan and Monaghan and north of the other Pratt homes in the locality. In 1814 it was occupied by James Butler Pratt. Lieutenant Edward Pratt of Mullantra, Kingscourt, petitioned the Lord Lieutenant in 1822 for an appointment to a post in the police establishment (National Archives CSO/RP/1822/1006). By the time of Griffith’s Valuation this building, the property of Colonel Pratt, had a rateable valuation of £2 and was vacant. A new building appears on a nearby site on the 25 inch map and is still extant in the middle of a forestry area.
Cornashesk House	This house was not built at the time of the first Ordnance Survey in the 1830s. It was erected within the demesne of Fort William and was occupied in the 1850s by David Kellett and held from the trustees of the Marquess of Headfort. It was valued at £10. Home of the Farrelly family at the beginning of the 20th century.
Fort William (Cornashesk)	A house and outbuildings are marked on the first edition six inch Ordnance Survey map (publ. 1837). Leet records Charles Kellett as the occupant of Corna-sesk in 1814. The house, which had expanded, is named on the 25 inch map. Fort William was the home of Robert Kellett in the 1850s, held from the Marquess of Headfort and valued at £14. Fortwilliam, Virginia, was the home of Ralph Harman in 1876. It is still extant.
Lurgan Lodge	Lurgan Lodge was the residence of a branch of the Nixon family from the late 18th century. George Nixon of Lurgan Lodge was the fourth son of the Reverend Andrew Nixon of Nixon Lodge. George’s son, Andrew Nixon, lived here in 1814. Lurgan Lodge is named on the first edition six inch Ordnance Survey map (publ. 1837). There was a corn mill nearby. The estate of Eliza Nixon of Lurgan Lodge was advertised for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court in March 1852. Her estate was held on a 21 year lease from the Bishop of Kilmore, dated 1849. James Hunter was one of the plaintiffs. In the mid-19th century the house was occupied by John Jennings and held from James Hunter. The buildings had a rateable valuation of £15. John Jennings was described as a farmer and miller when he died in 1867 (NA, Wills and Administrations 1867, 105). In the early 20th century Lurgan Lodge was the home of Thomas Charles Kellett, a farmer and magistrate. It is still extant.
Fort Frederick	Fort Frederick situated close to the shore of Lough Ramor was described by Bence Jones as ‘a 2 storey mid-c18 house with a central 3 sided bow and 2 bays on either side of it’. In 1814 it was the home of Captain Sankey but by 1837 had been acquired by his relative R. Scott who was married to Eleanor Sankey. Griffith’s Valuation records Richard Scott as the occupier. The buildings were valued at £35 and were held in fee. By 1876 Alexander William Jackson Sankey owned the Fort Frederick estate, comprised of 1,324 acres. He died in 1903. His brother Harry Samuel Sankey is recorded as resident at Fort Frederic in 1910. This house continues to be a residence.
New Grove House	New Grove House and mill with a rateable valuation of £70 were in the possession of Charles Murphy in the 1850s. He held the property from Richard Coote of Bellamont Forest. A building still exists at this site but the mill is now a ruin.
Ann's Fort	Located on the Coote of Bellamont Forest estate and named on the first edition 6 inch Ordnance Survey map (publ. 1837) Ann’s Fort was located in a demesne with bleaching mills ‘in ruins’ nearby. Corn and flax mills are marked on the 25 inch map at these ruins. William Worthy was the occupier of Ann’s Fort and mills in the mid-19th century when the rateable valuation of the buildings was £50. He held the property from James T. Tennant.
Heath Lodge	Heath Lodge in a small demesne is named on the first edition six inch Ordnance Survey map (publ. 1837). Griffith’s Valuation records Garret Williamson as the occupant holding the property from Edward Wilson Nesbit. It was valued at £11 for rates. This house was not occupied in the early 20th century.
Billis Grange	A house built after the first edition six inch Ordnance Survey map (publ. 1837) was surveyed. Mrs D. Delap was the owner and occupier in the mid-19th century when the buildings were valued at £13. There is a reference to W.C. Peyton of Billis Grange in a document in the Farnham Papers, Ms 11,499 (NLI). The building was possibly extended towards the end of the 19th century. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage dates the present house c. 1890. The 25 inch map shows a substantial house in parkland with a lodge at the entrance gate. In 1906, Henry Sankey held over 300 untenanted acres in this locality including a building with a rateable valuation of £16.10.0. This house continues to be a family residence.
Beehive	Marked on the first edition six inch Ordnance Survey map (publ. 1837), this was a single storey house with a small plantation nearby. It was owned and occupied by Charles C.H. Coote in the mid-19th century. It may have been built for the use of an employee of the Coote family. The house and its multi-bay farm yard are still extant.
The Lodge	A sporting lodge built by the Taylour family before 1800 and originally known as Cottage. It was extending circa 1820 and again circa 1860. It is situated close to Lough Ramor and on the outskirts of the town of Virginia. The Lodge was valued at £37 in the 1850s when the Earl of Bective was recorded as the occupant. By 1906, the rateable valuation had risen to £105. The building now functions as a hotel, see http://www.virginiaparklodge.com/
Lakeview (Mullagh)	The nucleus of this house is believed to date back to the mid-17th century and since that time has remained in the possession of the Mortimer family and their descendants. Leet lists David Mortimer as resident and Lewis records Lakeview as a Mortimer home. Griffith’s Valuation names Charles Mortimer as the occupant and owner. The buildings were valued at £11. In 1906, David A Mortimer held about 500 acres of untenanted land and buildings valued at £11.15.0. Since the mid-1990s Lakeview has been the home of Jonathan and Daphne Shackleton and they have restored the gardens.
Rantavan	Rantavan is situated on the southern side of the village of Mullagh and is named on the first edition six inch Ordnance Survey map (publ. 1837). Throughout the 18th century it was the home of the Brookes, a literary family. By the time of Griffith’s Valuation in the mid-1850s Jane Kellett was resident. She held the property from the representatives of John Young. The rateable valuation was £13.10.0. Home of the Roundtree family in the early 20th century this house appears to be still extant.
Quilca House	Quilca was associated with the Sheridan family. The Reverend Thomas Sheridan was a friend of Dean Swift. In 1725 the Dean wrote some of ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ while staying with the Sheridans at Quilca. In 1814 Robert Doughty was resident and the Reverend Luke O’Reilly in the 1830s. No occupant is given in Griffith’s Valuation when the building was described as a herd’s house and was valued at £5. Joseph Le Fanu was the immediate lessor. A mid-20th century house now occupies the site.
Shinan House	Shinan House was the home of a branch of the Adams family from the early 19th century. Lewis records ‘Shenan’ as the residence of E. Wilson. By the mid-19th century it was valued at £50 and was owned and occupied by Captain Benjamin Adams. Charles Adams was in possession of Shinan House in the early 20th century. It was later demolished.
Northlands	Northlands, located north of Kingscourt and close to the border between counties Cavan and Monaghan, was the home of the Reverend Dean Adams in the 1830s. In the mid-19th century it had a rateable valuation of £31.15.0. and the Dean held the property in fee. Samuel Allen Adams and family were resident in the early 20th century. This house is no longer extant.