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Woodville (Granard)

Houses within 15km of this house

Displaying 17 houses.

Houses within 15km of Woodville (Granard)

Displaying 17 houses.

House name Description
Cloghlough At the time of Griffith's Valuation, William O'Brien was leasing a property valued at £8 at Cloghlough, barony of Carrigallen, from the estate of John King, which was in Chancery. Substantial farm buildings exist at this site.
Bracklagh The house faced Bracklagh Lough, very close to the border between counties Cavan and Longford. It is marked on the first edition six inch Ordnance Survey map (publ. 1837). In the mid-19th century it was inhabited by Captain Mark Ker and held from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. The rateable valuation was £15. Home of Matthew William Webb and family in 1901. A building is still extant on this site.
Lakeview (Garrison) A house on the Farnham estate, named on the first edition Ordnance Survey map (publ. 1837), valued at £11.10.0. in the mid-19th century when occupied by Edward Soren and held from David Kellett.
Rock House (Cavan) Marked on the first edition Ordnance Survey map (publ. 1837). In the 1850s, this house was occupied by the Reverend Matthew Webb and held from George Wilton. It had a rateable valuation of £21. It is now the centre of a farming complex.
Kill Ambrose Leet records Kill, Mount Nugent, as the residence of George Lenauze. Kill House, located on the estate of the Bishop of Kilmore, is named on the first edition 6 inch Ordnance Survey map (publ. 1837). At this time there were laid out gardens and extensive plantations within the demesne grounds. The buildings at Kill House are reduced in size on the later 25 inch map. In the 1850s Garrett Keogh was the occupier holding the property valued at £5 from John Orpen. This house is no longer extant.
Riverview/Cloggy House River View was situated on the bank of the River Erne. It was obviously associated with linen making in the early 19th century as beetling and bleaching mills are both marked near the house on the first edition six inch Ordnance Survey map (publ. 1837). A corn mill is also shown nearby. The Faris family were resident in Cloggy from at least 1832 when Alexander Faris is mentioned in the Tithe Applotment Books. In the mid-19th century William Faris was resident holding the buildings valued at £15 from Cosby Thomas Nesbitt. Alexander Faris/Ferris, a farmer and his family were living in Cloggy at the beginning of the 20th century. This house has been modernised and still retains a fine range of outbuildings.
Laurel Bank/Holly Bank This house, originally known as Laurel Bank, is named on the first edition six inch Ordnance Survey map (publ. 1837). It is shown in a demesne which included an old bleach mill and a corn mill and kiln. It is believed to have been built by a mill owner in the 18th century. Griffith’s Valuation records William Norton as the occupant holding the property valued at £8.10.0. from the Earl of Gosford. The house is called Holly Bank on the 25 inch map. Altered and added to in the 20th century it continues to be a residence.
Gartinadress House In 1814, Charles Veaitch was the resident at Gortin-ardrass. This house is named on the first edition six inch Ordnance Survey map (publ. 1837). Although having advertised Gartinardress for sale in 1850 William Young was the owner and occupier at the time of Griffith’s Valuation when the property was valued at £15 for rates. By the early 20th century the Armstrong family were occupying Gartinardress, although in 1906 William A. K. Young is recorded as occupier of 228 acres of untenanted land and the mansion house. This house is no longer extant and the site is part of a forestry area. A house known as Lakeville was also located in the townland of Gartinardress. Leases in the National Library record Lakeville as the home of Richard Young in the 1820s. It was described as ‘in ruins’ on the 25 inch map.
Tully House (Killashandra) Richard Young of Tully 1808, see GO MS. Richard Young and his wife Bridget Nugent Reynolds later lived at Fort Lodge, on the outskirts of Cavan town. In 1814, Mr R.Y. Reynolds was resident at Tully, Crossdoney. Major Randal Stafford of Tully House, Crossdoney, is listed as a subscriber to Lewis ‘Topographical Dictionary’ (1837). In the 1850s this house was occupied by William Magee who held it from the representatives of Hugh Walsh. The Douglas family were resident at the beginning of the 20th century.
Bruce Hall Thomas Hinds of Prussia Street, Dublin and previously of Bruce Hall, county Cavan, died in 1794. Henry B. Wilson was resident at Bruice-hall, Arva, in 1814. Bruce Hall was the home of John Warren in the mid-19th century. John Warren married Isabella, daughter of Captain James Blakely of Lake View, county Cavan, in 1856 (Anglo-Celt, 28 August 1856). He held Bruce Hall from Robert Burrowes and it was valued at £10 for rates.
Bellville The Fleming family were known to be at Bellville from the early 18th century. The house is named on the first edition six inch Ordnance Survey map (publ. 1837) and located facing two forts in a sizable demesne. Belville was the home of A. Fleming in 1814 and of Captain A. Fleming in the 1830s. By the 1850s, the occupant was Jane Kenny who held the property valued at £7 from Major General Fleming. At the beginning of the 20th century Bellville was the home of the Meikle family, originally from Scotland. It is still extant.
Corstruce House A house located on the outskirts of Bellananagh and near a corn mill. It was situated on part of the Fleming estate and was occupied by William Pollock in the mid-19th century and was in the possession of Thomas Brady in the early 20th century. A modern house now occupies this site.
Lismore Lodge Built as the agent’s house in the Nesbitts’ Lismore Castle demesne close to the village of Crossdoney. Lismore Lodge is named on the first edition six inch Ordnance Survey map (publ. 1837). It was the home of William Tatlow in the mid-19th century, when the buildings were valued at £20. Occupied by the family of Thomas Cosby Burrowes at the beginning of the 20th century. His mother Mary Anne Burrowes had succeeded to the Lismore estate in 1886 following the death of her brother Alexander Nesbitt. Under boundary changes at the end of the 19th century the location of the Lodge was changed to the townland of Lismore Demesne and it was valued at £32 for rates in 1906. In the mid-20th century it was a Lucas-Clements home. This house is extant but unoccupied. Photo of Lismore Lodge
Drumcarban Bence Jones describes Drumcarban as a late 18th century house of 3 storeys and 3 bays. It was the home of the Bell Booth family in the 19th century. George Thomas Bell Booth was resident in the 1830s and 1840s until he was murdered in 1845. Robert Booth Bell was the owner and occupant at the time of Griffith’s Valuation. This house was occupied by Annie Sheridan in 1901, in 1906 by Michael Sheridan when it had a rateable valuation of £22.5.0. and is still extant.
Lismore Castle An early 18th century house, possibly designed by Sir Edward Lovett Pearce (Bence Jones). Named on the first edition six inch Ordnance Survey map (publ. 1837), it was valued at £12 for rates in the mid-1850s. It was a Nesbitt family home until the 1880s when inherited by the Burrowes family and passed from them by marriage to the Lucas Clements in the 1920s. However the house was marked as ‘in ruins’ on the 25 inch map. Bence Jones records that it was later demolished and that the Lucas-Clements resided in the agent’s house nearby Lismore Lodge.
Rockville (Crossdoney) Named on the first edition six inch Ordnance Survey map (publ. 1837), Rockville was located on the Nesbitt estate to the north east of Lismore Castle, on the outskirts of Crossdoney. In the 1830s it was the home of John C. Tatlow and in the 1850s of Samuel Moore, when the buildings were valued at £20 for rates. Occupied by Dr John Stirling Greer and his wife in 1901 and held from Thomas Cosby Burrowes. Another medical family named Hallowes was resident in 1911. Apparently still extant and occupied.
Lake View (Scrabby) Lake View in the townland of Bernyhill (212 acres) was the home of the McManus family. In the mid-19th century Eugene McManus held the property, valued at £11.10.0. in fee. He owned the townland of Bernyhnill in 1876. Eugene Mc Manus, aged 39, was resident at Lake View in 1901 and in 1911. A house surrounded by farm building is still extant at this site.