| Description |
In 1837 Lewis records Pierce Morton as the proprietor of Kilnacrott. This was Kilnacrott Cottage as marked on the first edition 6 inch Ordnance Survey map (publ. 1837). Subsequently a Tudor Revival house was built very slightly to the north of the Cottage for Pierce Morton (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage). Morton sold the house in 1850 to Samuel Moor, who sold it on privately to William Hague. This house had a rateable valuation of £65 at the time of Griffith’s Valuation and was occupied by George H. L’Estrange who held the property from William Hague of Cavan, father of William Hague, architect of Cavan and Dublin. In 1876 William Hague held 459 acres in county Cavan. In the 1880s Kilnacrott became the home of the Lynch family. In 1906, Charles Lynch was resident. He died in 1913 (see will administrations in the National Archives). From 1930 the building was used as a school by the Holy Trinity Priory. In 1954 a grant of arms was issued to the Rt Reverend Felim Cornelius Colwell, Lord Abbot of the Abbey of the Holy Trinity of the Canons Regular of Premontre at Kilnacrott, Co Cavan, and to the Community, see National Library, GO MS 111H: 27-28. Kilnacrott is now known as the Cavan Centre, a ‘Residential Centre for Education and Community Development’, see http://www.cavancentre.ie/ |
