Sonna

Houses within 5km of this house

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Houses within 5km of Sonna

Displaying 10 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.
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.
Kill House	Kill house marked on first edition OS map and the 25 inch map is located a short distance west of Sonna. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) it was valued at £17, occupied by Maria McCormick and held from George Thompson. It appears to be still extant with courtyard outbuildings.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.