| Description |
Auburn House located on the eastern outskirts of Athlone town is described by O’Brien as a late 18th century, two-storey, three bay house built by James Sproule about 1790. Occupied by the Bruce family of Gore House, Northgate Street, for about fifteen years before they emigrated to Australia. W S Bruce was resident in 1837. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) Laurence or Lorenzo Dundas was resident, holding the house valued at £22 from George Mechum. in 1894 Slater noted it as the residence of George A.G. Adamson, J.P. Various persons occupied this house in the following years including the Mahon and Browne families in the 20th century. Sold to the state in the 1960s it became a ruin and is now demolished. The Athlone Regional College now occupies the site. |
