Kill House

Houses within 10km of this house

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Houses within 10km of Kill House

Displaying 45 houses.

House name	Description
Grange Hall	The building at this site on the first edition OS map is named Orange Hall and Grange Hall on the 25 inch map with a courtyard and laid out gardens. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) Owen Evers or Eivers owned and occupied the house, valued at £16. This property belong to Eugene Eivers in 1870, who owned 107 acres of land in the area at the time. The Eivers were still resident in 1906 and 1911 and the house remains a well maintained residence.
Ballysallagh House	Ballysallagh house is not marked on first edition OS map. It is a three-bay two-storey late-Georgian-style farm house, built about 1850. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) it was occupied by Christina McCormick, who held the house valued at £11 from William Longworth. It is still in use as a residence.
Baronstown	Baronstown was a large mansion in an extensive demesne on the western shore of Lough Iron, as shown on the first OS map, with many features such as a temple, summer house etc. Described by the National Built Heritage Service as an important late eighteenth-century Palladian villa with two storey wings, it was associated with the Malone Family/Lord Sunderlin. Taylor and Skinner noted it as a Malone property in 1777. Lord Sunderlin was resident in 1814. Following the death of Richard Malone in 1837 his sister Alicia who had married Henry O’Connor of Mount Pleasant, King’s County (Offaly) succeeded to the Baronstown and Shinglis estates. O’Brien writes that the building was burnt twice and rebuilt. The first time in 1889 and the second time in 1903 when it was replaced by a large Tudor villa to designs by James Franklin Fuller. In 1906 it was valued at £70 and was occupied by Colonel John R Malone who held it with 943 acres of untenanted land. Demolished by the Land Commission in the 1920s, it is now a greenfield site.
Oran Vale	Located directly north of Ballynacarrigy, Oran Vale is named on the first edition OS map and was occupied by J Irwin in 1837. Valued at £15 it was unoccupied at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) while the immediate lessor was Thomas William West who held the property from Alicia O’Connor Malone. The house is not named on the 25 inch map and is now a ruin.
Willybrook/Willifield	This house is named Willybrook on the first edition OS map and as Willifield on the 25 inch map. Valued at £12 at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854), it was occupied by Joseph Evers who held it from Alicia O’Connor Malone (in Chancery) and remains a well maintained residence.
Rath House	Rath House, was the home of J West in 1837 and of Thomas West at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854), when the buildings, including a corn mill, were valued at £34 and held from Alicia O’Connor Malone. In 1906 the mansion house of Rath valued at £30 was in the occupation of Colonel John R Malone and was held with 62 acres of untenanted land. The census records would suggest that the local rector Rev Venn was actually resident. The house is now demolished.
Tristernagh House	Described as an imposing and dramatic ruin with an interesting and varied history Tristernagh was originally an important Augustinian Abbey, founded c. 1200 by Geoffrey de Costentin (boi). After the dissolution of the monasteries and abbeys it was granted to the Piers Family, Elizabethan settlers. In 1783 Sir William Pigot Piers turned part of the building into a residence, which is named as Tristernagh House on the first edition OS map. It was unoccupied in 1814. A new house/cottage was built to the north of the abbey in the early nineteenth-century which is marked on the first edition OS map (N332 616). It is not clear which of these houses Lewis is referring to as the seat of Sir John Piers Bt in 1837. The 25 inch map of the early 20th century named this later building as Tristeragh House, while the original Tristeragh House at the abbey site was a ruin. Woods writes that the ‘late J Eivers Esq, J.P., lived for years in the cottage built by the late Sir John Piers’ while the mansion built by Sir Pigot William Piers in 1783 was ‘a crumbling ruin’. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) James Evers was recorded as the occupant of a house at Tristernagh valued at £10 held from Hamilton Geale. Shepherd Patrick Garry with family members was living here in 1901 and 1911. They held the house from Colonel John R Malone. The house is still extant.
Rockfield/Cromlyn	A house known as Rockfield (N295657) is named on the first edition OS map at the southern end of Glen Lough. The lands and house were leased to John Crawford by Sir Peter Nugent in 1795. Matthew Crawford was resident in 1814. A later house a short distance to the east was built by the Crawfords in the late 1840s according to the sale rental of 2 December 1862, ‘The house, which is a spacious and well-built mansion erected within the last fifteen years at an expense of upwards of £2,000 … The house contains on the basement-story nine rooms, including kitchen, wine-cellar, scullery etc with every accommodation for servants. There are on the first floor four large reception-rooms, one dressing room, two pantries, bath-room etc. On the second floor, seven commodious and well-proportioned sleeping apartments besides bathrooms etc.’ This house was originally known as Rockfield and was valued at £36 at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) when occupied by Matthew Crawford. The name of the house may have been changed to ‘Cromlyn’ when it was purchased by Charles John Battersby of Ballinalack in 1862. It is named as Cromlyn on the 25 inch map (circa 1914). The house remained in the possession of the Battersby family well into the 20th century.
Ardglass House	This house was rebuilt in the style of an Italianate Villa post Griffith’s Valuation, possibly incorporating the fabric of an earlier house on the same site. The original Ardglass House was the home of a Major A. P. Bond in 1837. Valued at £13.15 at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854), it was occupied by the representatives of A P Bond who held it in fee. The present house was in the ownership of William Perry Bond JP, in the 1880s. The house has had various owners in the 20th century and was for sale in 2017, see https://www.businesspost.ie/article/high-class-at-ardglass-co-westmeath/
Newpark Lodge	Newpark Lodge named on both the first edition OS map and the 25 inch map. Occupied by James Auchmuty JP in 1837 and at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) when he held the house valued at £10 from the representative of A P Boyd. Now a modern building located at the site situated on the main road from Mullingar to Edgeworthstown. Newpark Lodge was for sale in 2021.
Knocknacreeve House	A building is marked at this site on the first edition OS map and a building of a different shape named Knocknacreeve House on 25 inch map. Richard Ham occupied this house valued at £14 which he held from Robert Smith, at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854). It is now the centre of a farm complex of buildings.
Sonna	Set in a substantial demesne as shown of the first edition OS map, the building is slightly altered in shape from this map to the 25 inch map. The house was a three-storey, seven-bay mid-18th century Palladian style mansion. It was the home of the Tuite family and remained as such until it was burnt in 1921. Described in 1837 by Lewis - ‘Sonna for upwards of six centuries, the seat of the Tuite family, is at present the residence of Hugh Morgan Tuite… the house is a light and elegant building, in a well planted demesne’. O’Brien gives a detailed account of the family. The estate consisting of 638 acres was sold to the Land Commission in 1928. See https://www.tuites1.com/424198848.html
Glencara House	This building is named Corr House on the first edition OS map but was later known as Glencarry or Glencara House. It was built for the Kelly family in the 1820s with later additions, c.1840. Glencarry was the residence of a J H Kelly in 1837 and of Robert Hume Kelly at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) when the house was valued at £40 and held in fee. It remained in the possession of the Kelly family until Colonel Arthur Bellingham bought the house in the late 1930s.
Dalystown	Dalystown is marked on the first edition OS map and named on the 25 inch map. It is a detached three-bay two-storey house, built in the early 19th century. Valued at £12 at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854), occupied by Lewis Meares and held from John Rotton.
Hallstown House	Hallstown or Halston House is named on the first edition OS map. This house was built c.1760 and altered and extended c.1820 by Sir Richard Morrison for the Boyd Gamble family (O’Brien). It is a two-storey, three-bay house and was the home of a H. Boyd Gamble in 1837. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) Frederick Gambell held it from Captain H Boyd Gambell, when it was valued at £28. Various other occupants followed and the house and lands were sold to the Hon Kieran Guinness in 1980.
Washford House	Washford House is a five-bay single-storey house, built c.1845, with a shallow projecting porch to the centre. Valued at £20 and held by Captain H Boyd Gamble in fee at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854).
Darlington Lodge	Darlington Lodge, named on the first edition OS map, occupied by A McDonnell in 1837 and by John Malone and held from Captain H Boyd Gamble at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) when valued at £18. O’Brien writes that it was possibly built as a dower house for Hallstown/Halston. The home of the Kenny family in recent times.
Jamestown House	Jamestown House was not built at the time of the first edition OS map. Situated on the main Mullingar to Athlone road the house, three-bay two-storey over basement house, was occupied by James Brabazon at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) when the building was valued at £12 and held from Walter McK Bond.
Togherstown	Togherstown House, named The Lodge on the first edition OS map with a small demesne. This is a three-bay two-storey over basement house, built before 1837 possibly incorporating the remains of an earlier house c.1700 built by Thomas Magan, High Sheriff of Co Westmeath. By 1837 Togherstown House was in the occupation of William Thomas Dillon (d. 1870). It was valued at £22 at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854), William T Dillon holding it from William H Magan MP. William Thomas Dillon was the son of Thomas Dillon of Lung, county Mayo and was married to Teresa daughter of Edmund Count Nugent of Ballinacor, county Westmeath. Margaret Treddin, widow and caretaker, and her family were resident in 1901 and 1911 holding the property from Julia Dillon of Dublin. The house was restored in the 21st century.
Barrettstown	Barrettstown House was not built at the time of the first edition OS map (c. 1837). It is located just south of the railway line. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) it was valued at £22 and occupied by Thomas Murray who held the property from John Savage Nugent. Still occupied by the Murray family in 1911, this house is extant.
Irishtown	Irishtown is named on the first edition OS map and the 25 inch map. In the late 1770s it was the home of Johnston. The Banon/Bannons lived here in the 19th century. Lewis records J Banon as resident in 1837 and Christopher J Bannon was the occupant at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854). He held the house valued at £15 from William H Magan. The Banons were still living at Irishtown at the time of the 1901 and 1911 censuses. The house was demolished in the 1960s but outbuildings remain.
Rathcastle	An early 19th century three-bay two-storey over a basement house, named on the first edition OS map. Rathcaslin was the residence of Thomas Banon, in 1837. By the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) George Murdoch occupied the house valued at £23 from John Devenish Meares. Home of William Brabazon in 1901. It was still in the possession of the Meares in 1906 and is still extant.
Mearescourt	Named on the first edition OS map, this five-bay three-storey over basement Palladian country house was built about 1760, possibly incorporating the remains of earlier buildings, including a Medieval tower house. John Meares died in 1790 leaving his estate to his nephew, William Devenish. In 1814 William Devenish Meares was resident and in 1837 it was the seat of J Devenish Meares, as it was at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) when the house was valued at £35. It remained a Meares home until the 1930s. In use as a guesthouse in the early 21st century.
Oldtown	Oldtown is named on the first edition OS map and the 25 inch map. A two-storey, three-bay house built by the Banon family. Occupied by J Banon in 1837 and at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) by Thomas Bannon who held the property valued at £13 from James Fallon. Oldtown was for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court in 1851. The house, described as a comfortable two-story house, fit for the residence of a gentleman, was occupied by Anne, Frances and Maria Banon, (Sale Rental 19 Dec 1851) and was bought by James Fallon, a wine and spirit merchant of Dublin. James Fallon of Oldtown is recorded among the 1876 landowners of the county. The Fallon family were still resident at the beginning of the 20th century.
Wilson's Hospital	Wilson's Hospital School erected on the summit of a hill, was founded by a trust set up by Andrew Wilson of Piersfield [Piercefield]. The National Built Heritage Service records that Wilson stated in his will of 1724 that in the event of there being no direct male heirs to his estate that it, and all its profits, be transferred to the Church of Ireland hierarchy and used to build a hospital for aged Protestant men and a school for poor Protestant boys. This was the case by 1743 and the school was completed in 1761. ‘Wilson's Hospital is one of the finest and most sophisticated mid-Georgian buildings constructed outside of Dublin. Its design has been attributed John Pentland, a noted architect of his day, and it is built in the style of a Palladian country house’ (boi). It is a seven-bay two-storey building which was valued at £90 at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) and continues to function as a secondary co-educational boarding school today.
Lackan	Lackan house is marked but not named on the first edition OS map. It was a two-storey, three-bay house, the home of the Delamare family, long associated with the Multyfarnham area. The Taylor and Skinner maps of the late 1770s include reference to Delamar at Lacken. In 1837 Lackan was the seat of Mrs Delamere. It was unoccupied at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) when valued at £17. The immediate lessor was Patrick J Murphy. A number of Delemere families were still resident in the townland in 1901. This house has been demolished.
Clanhugh	Named on the first edition OS map as Clanhugh Lodge overlooking Lough Owel, later rebuilt as shown on the 25 inch map when it is named Clonhugh. The earlier house Clanhugh Lodge was the residence of the Earl of Granard in 1814 and in 1837 described as a lodge belonging to Lord Forbes. Valued at £12 the building was occupied by James Lugden who held it from the Earl at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854). The present five-bay two-storey Italianate country house, was built in 1867, to the design of William Caldbeck (1824-1872), for Colonel F.S. Greville, later Lord Greville, who purchased much of the Forbes lands in this area in 1859. Francis Nulty of Kells was the builder. Occupied by the Harvey-Kelly and Beirne families in the 20th century.
Rathbennett House	Rathbennett House, formerly known as Farra House, originally functioned as Bunbrosna Charter School. Built c.1758 with a bequest from the will of the Rev. William Wilson, the nephew and heir of Andrew Wilson, the benefactor of Wilson's Hospital. Farra Charter School is recorded by Lewis in 1837 and was still recorded as a charter school with offices at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) when the building was valued at £30. It was held by the trustees of Wilson’s Hospital in fee. Sometime later it became a private residence. Occupied by Thomas Cartret Foster in 1901 and 1911, this house remains a family home.
Ballinacloon	Ballynaclonagh, named on the first edition OS map as Ballynaclonagh and on the 25 inch map as Ballinacloon and extended. No longer extant, demolished c 1930. Complex of single and two-storey outbuildings on L-shaped plan survive. Ballynaclonagh was the residence of Edward Murphy in 1814 and P. E. Murphy in 1837. Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) records Patrick E Murphy as the occupier holding the property valued at £33.5 in fee. Patrick Delamere, coachman to Captain Murphy, was resident with his wife in 1901. Valued at £45.5 in 1906 and in the possession of Captain Laurence Murphy. The Delameres had three children by 1911 and were resident holding the property from Mrs Sarah Murphy.
Soho (Multyfarnham)	Soho, an early 19th century three-bay two-storey house, is named on the first edition OS map. Inherited by Lattin Fitzgerald, a younger son of Catherine Nugent of Donore and her husband Pierce Fitzgerald, who occupied the house in 1814. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) it was the residence of Peter Nugent Fitzgerald, valued at £15.15 and held from Sir Percy Nugent of Donore. The house was occupied by Mrs Margaret Fitzgerald’s gardener Edward Fay in 1901 and by Colonel Edward Irwin and family in 1911. Soho is still a family home.
Portloman	Portloman, situated on the shore of Lough Owel, is named on the first edition OS map and the 25 inch map. Home of the de Blaquiere family from the mid-18th to the mid-19th centuries. Both Leet (1814) and Lewis (1837) record Portloman as the seat of Lord de Blaquiere. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation John de Blaquiere held the house valued at £18 in fee. When the estate was for sale in June 1866 the mansion house was described as been ‘beautifully situated on the margin of Lough Owel and stands upon a demesne containing about 200 acres Statute measure, handsomely planted, to which is attached a large garden, containing over three acres well stocked, walled in and lined with Brick; Hot Houses, Conservatories etc’. In 1906 the house was in the possession of Colonel David W Stevenson [of Derry]. The buildings had increased in value to £33.10 and were held with 142 acres of untenanted land. This house was destroyed in 1921.
Woodland	Woodland overlooking Lough Owel, named on the first edition OS map and 25 inch map, still extant but now known as Ardilaun House. Lewis records W Moxton, agent to Lord Forbes, as the occupant in 1837 and at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) Edward Maxton was resident holding the property valued at £14 from Lord Forbes. In 1901 occupied by race horse trainer Alexander Pilkington and his wife and by the Brabazon family, horse trainers in 1911.
Mount Murray	Mount Murray House is situated facing the western shore of Lough Owel and is named on both the first edition OS and 25 inch maps. The Murray family have been resident here since the mid-17th century and remain in residence today. The present house is a five-bay two-storey over basement country house, built about 1780 and remodelled c.1820 with the addition of a semi-circular bow to the southeast façade (boi). It was built by Alexander Murray in the late eighteenth-century to replace an earlier Murray house or castle close to the same site. Occupied by Alexander Murray in 1814 and 1837 and by Henry Murray at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) who held the house valued at £46 in fee. William Murray was resident in 1906.
Ballyglass	Ballyglass, a four-bay two-storey house, built about 1820, is named on both the first six inch and 25 inch OS maps and located just north east of St Finian’s College near Mullingar. In 1814 it was the home of John McLaughlin. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) James William McLoughlin resided, holding the house valued at £16.10 in fee. This house is still extant.
Charlestown House	Charlestown House, Balnamona, is named on both the first six inch and 25 inch maps. It was the home of Tennison Lyons in 1814. Hill J M Walsh was resident here at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) when the house was valued at £15 and held from John C Lyons. There is a building still on the site, part of Charlestown stud.
Bellmount House	Bellmount House, Curristown, is named on both the first six inch and 25 inch OS maps. It is a five-bay two-storey house, built about 1820. Although built on part of the Lyons of Ladestown estate, Bellmount House was in the possession of the Reilly family for most of the 19th century. The two families were related. In 1814 John Lyons is recorded as the occupier and in 1837 W Reilly. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) William Haig was resident holding the house valued at £36 from the representatives of Anthony A Reilly. Home of Arthur and Alice Trevor Booth in 1911. In the mid-20th century O’Brien records that Bellmount was in the ownership of the Gainsford-St Lawrence family of Howth Castle, Dublin.
Levington Park	Levington Park is located close to the southern shore of Lough Owel. The seat of a branch of the Levinge family from the mid-18th century, it is a nine-bay two-storey country house with two-storey returns to the rear at either end (north and south), built about 1748 by Sir Richard Levinge 4th Baronet and altered in the early 19th century (boi). In 1814 Lady Levinge was resident. It was inherited by the 4th Baron’s second son Richard Hugh Levinge who was the owner in 1837. Valued at £27 at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854), occupied and held by Charles William Levinge in fee. Members of the Levinge family were still resident in 1901 but Hugo Fitzpatrick and his wife Gertrude were living here in 1911. O’Brien writes that Levington Park was later the residence of Edmund Dease, formerly of Turbotstown House. His son Maurice was the recipient of the first posthumously awarded Victoria Cross of World War I. The house had other owners until purchased by the author J P Donleavy in 1972. He died in 2017.
Lakefield/Keoltown House	This house is named Lakefield on the first edition OS map and Keoltown House on the 25 inch map. Near the northern shore of Lough Ennell this five-bay two-storey over basement house was built about 1800 and substantially altered about 1885, with the construction of a new entrance block to the front of the existing house, (boi). This house was a L’Estrange home in the early 19th century. John L’Estrange was resident in 1814. By the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) John Swift was the occupier holding the house valued at £14 from John Charles Lyons. The L’Estrange and Swift families were related. John Swift of Keoltown owned 454 acres in the 1870s. The Swifts were still living at Keoltown at the time of the 1901 and 1911 censuses. The buildings were valued at £29.5 in 1906 and held with 457 acres of untenanted land. This house was for sale in 2020.
Strokestown (Mullingar)	Stokestown, located beside the railway line and marked but not named on either the first six inch of 25 inch OS maps. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) the house was valued at £14, occupied by John McKeown and held from Lord Vaux. In September 1862 John McKeon was selling Stokestown and 145 acres in the Landed Estates Court, held under a lease from Lord Vaux, dated 6 August 1853. William Mullen, shepherd, and his family were living in a first class house in Stokestown in 1901, held from W H Middleton. A building remains on this site.
Greenpark House	Greenpark House, previously known as Tuitestown, located south west of Mullingar, now a green field site. Members of the Hudson/Hodson family lived here as recorded on the Taylor and Skinner maps of the late 1770s when the property was known as Tuitestown and in Leet’s directory of 1814 when Hartley Hudson was resident at Greenpark. By the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) Elizabeth Connolly was occupying the house, valued at £28 and held from Sir George Hodson.
New Port (Ballymahon)	At the time of Griffiths Valuation in the early 1850s, Patrick Ross was leasing this property from the Fox estate, when it was valued at almost £9. In 1814 Leet referred to it as the residence of J, Molloy. The Ordnance Survey Name Books mention it as a gentleman's residence belonging to Mr. Fox. The house is labelled New Port on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map but does not appear on subsequent maps and is no longer extant.
Newtown House [Newtown Lodge]	Robert Hagerty was leasing this property from the Fox estate at the time of Griffiths Valuation in the early 1850s. The house at the site is labelled Newtown Lodge on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map. The Ordnance Survey Name Books referred to this as a 'farm house' in the 1830s. A different house at the site is named as Newtown House on the later editions, the name by which it is still known. The National Built Heritage Service suggests the original house was built c.1810. It is extant and well-maintained.
Ballincurra House (Rathconrath)	Benjamin Digby held this property in fee at the time of Griffiths Valuation in the early 1850s when it was valued at £23. The original Valuation Office books had valued the property at £25 in 1850, It had a similar valuation in 1906 when it was owned by William Benjamin Digby. It survived into the 20th century but is now a ruin.
Moyvore	Peter Odlum was leasing this property from the Grogan estate at the time of Griffiths Valuation, when it was valued at £12.
Baltacken House	Abraham Coates was leasing this property from Nathaniel McElthwaite at the time of Griffiths Valuation when it was valued at £12. It was described as a caretaker’s house with offices. It is labelled Baltacken House on all editions of the Ordnance Survey map and is still extant and in use.