Landed Estates
University of Galway

Sidebrook House

Estate(s)
Townland Farthingstown
Civil Parish Castlelost
PLU Mullingar
DED Castlelost
County Westmeath
Barony Fartullagh
Description Sidebrook house is marked on the first edition OS map and named on the 25 inch map. It is a four-bay two-storey house built in the early 19th century and may incorporate the fabric of an earlier house. Taylor and Skinner record a Rochfort Esq at Sidebrook in their maps surveyed 1777-1783. It was later in the ownership of a J. Rochfort in 1837. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) John Rochfort held the house valued at £11 with 600 acres from Cooper Rochfort. In the possession of the Lawrence family for most of the 20th century.
Sidebrook House (National Built Heritage Service)

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