Griffinstown

Houses within 5km of this house

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Houses within 5km of Griffinstown

Displaying 4 houses.

House name	Description
Annaskinnan	Annaskinnan, located just south of the Grand Canal and west of Hyde Park, this house had laid out gardens marked on the first edition OS map. It was part of the estates belonging to the Crown in the early 19th century. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) the house was valued at £13, occupied by William Garty and held from Alexander Montgomery. Members of the Garty family were still resident in 1901. Complex of buildings now located on the site.
Hydepark	Hyde Park, located north of Kinnegad, is a five-bay two-storey over basement country house, built about 1775 by James D’Arcy. This family were related to the D’Arcys of Corbetstown. John D’Arcy, son of James, was resident in 1814 and 1837. George D’Arcy, son of John, held the property in fee at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) when the house was valued at £23. In 1906 George N Darcy is recorded as the occupant holding the property with 425 acres of untenanted land. Two D’Arcy sisters were living in Hyde Park in 1911.
Lowtown House	Lowtown House described by O’Brien as a late 17th century, two-storey, nine-bay house over a basement built by Anthony Dopping, Bishop of Meath. Generations of Doppings lived here including four successive Anthonys. The house is referenced in Taylor and Skinner maps of the 1770s. In 1814 Samuel Dopping resided and in 1837 his son William lived here. In 1843 William married Jane daughter of the Rev Cecil Crampton and they emigrated to Australia, as did his older brother Anthony John some years later. William Dopping and his mother Anne of Lowtown appear to have been having financial difficulties in 1842 as two judgements against them for a debt of £1,840 was assigned to Philip Crampton, Lowtown, Co Westmeath MD and George Ribton Crampton, Upper Mount St, Dublin, see Dopping-Hepenstal Papers in NLI Ms. 35,871 (7). Anne Dopping, widow of Samuel, was living in the house at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854). It was valued at £28 and she held it in fee. Occupied by Eleanor Mary Crampton at the beginning of the 20th century and then by the Glennon family. Sold to the Land Commission in the 1950s the house was subsequently demolished and is now a green field site.
Riverstown House	Riverstown House, originally known as Rathwire House, this five-bay single-storey over basement villa, was built about 1830 and was associated with a former corn mill run by the Hannons (boi). Occupied by Benjamin Hannan, valued at £15 and held from the Earl of Longford at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854). Samuel Clarke, agent and his wife lived here in 1901 and William Bailey, ex RIC and land agent’s assistant and his family were resident in 1911. It was bought by a Father O'Rourke in 1935 who opened the first Camillian Juniorate in Ireland here in 1949, it now functions as St Camillus Care Centre.