Portloman

Houses within 5km of this house

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Houses within 5km of Portloman

Displaying 8 houses.

House name	Description
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
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.
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.
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.