Lisnabin Castle

Houses within 5km of this house

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Houses within 5km of Lisnabin Castle

Displaying 13 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.
Corbetstown	Corbetstown house, a D’Arcy home, is named on the first edition OS map. It is a three-bay two-storey over basement house, built about 1820. It must have replaced an earlier house as a D’Arcy is recorded at Corbetstown in the late 1770s. Francis D’Arcy was resident in 1814 and John D’Arcy in 1837. By the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) Joseph Purser was resident holding the house valued at £32 from the Earl of Longford. Occupied by Elizabeth and Frances Reynell in 1911, this house remains extant.
Curristown	Curristown House was a property in the ownership of the Purdon Family from about 1760. The house, a two-storey, three-bay late 18th century building, was the home of George Purdon in 1814 and 1837. Valued at £21 it was unoccupied at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854). Augustus C Purdon was the immediate lessor. Occupied by Algernon Briscoe and family in 1901, the house remained a Briscoe home until the mid-20th century. It was demolished in the late 20th century.
Huntingdon	Huntingdon, a five-bay two-storey over basement country house, built about 1770 by the Purdon family, it remained a Purdon home for all of the 19th century. Robert Purdon was resident in 1814 and 1837. Augustus Cooke Purdon held the house from Robert Purdon at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854), when it was valued at £20. Purdon family members were still resident in the early decades of the 20th century and the house remains extant.
Joristown	Joristown House, set in a large demesne, with a deer park to the west, as recorded on the first edition OS map, this was a Purdon home from the early 19th century as Peter Purdon was resident in 1814 and 1837. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) the house was unoccupied, valued at £16 and held from Augustus C Purdon. Shepherd Hugh Lambe was living in a house in Joristown with two of his cousins, held from General Purdon in 1901 and John Purdon in 1911. This house is now demolished.
Riggs Villa/Greenhills	Located a short distance north west of Killucan, this building is named Riggs Villa on the first edition OS map and Greenhills on the 25 inch map. It is a three-bay two-storey house, built about 1830, with two-bay two-storey return to the northeast (boi). Riggville Cottage was the home of Edward Riggs in 1814 and of Anthony Fawcett at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) when it was valued at £11.10 and held from the Earl of Longford. Two Fawcett sisters were living in Killucan at the time of the 1911 census. This house is extant.
Woodfort	Woodfort, named on the first edition OS map, situated in a small demesne. This was a five-bay two-storey house built about 1800 and altered in the mid-19th century. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) it was occupied by Edmond R Nugent, held from the Earl of Longford and valued at £10. Now part of an extensive business complex.
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.
Wardenstown	Wardenstown is a five-bay two-storey early 18th century country house, built c.1810 possibly incorporating the fabric of an earlier house. The house is believed to have been three-storey high when built but was later reduced in height following a fire (boi). The Berry family lived at Wardenstown in the early 18th century. The Wardenstown Papers record that the estate was later acquired by the Vandeleur family from Kilrush, Co Clare through a connection with the Knight of Kerry (PRONI D3549/F). It is probable that the Vandeleurs built the present house. In 1814 George Webb lived at Wardenstown and in 1837 T M Webb. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) Capt Crofton Thomas Vandeleur occupied the house valued at £20 and held from the Knight of Kerry and other Fitzgerald family members. Capt Crofton T. Vandeleur, lived here in the 1870s and it was still the home of members of the Vandeleur family in the early years of the 20th century. In more recent times the home of the Potterton family.
Clonlost	Clonlost house is shown amidst a large demesne on the first OS map. The Nugent family were settled at Clonlost from the 17th century. The house was a two-storey, five-bay, late 18th century building (O’Brien). In 1814 it was the home of Lt Col Nugent. Lewis records it as the ‘ancient family seat of J Nugent’. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) Captain John J Nugent held it in fee when the house was valued at £40 and he owned an estate of over 3,000 acres in the 1870s. His daughter married William Lamb Palmer of Rahan, Co Kildare and it was their son Charles Colley Palmer who inherited Clonlost. Members of the Palmer family were still resident in the early years of the 20th century. The house is now a ruin.
Clondrisse House	Clondrisse House, a small building marked on the first edition OS map and named on the 25 inch map. A small two-bay two-storey over basement house built about 1800 and extended in the late 19th century. O’Brien writes that it was the home of Myles O’Reilly in the first two decades of the 19th century. Rev Francis Winter, vicar of the nearby St. John the Baptist's Church of Ireland church was the occupant in the 1840s while Rodney Purdon was resident at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854), holding the house valued at £16, from Samuel Winter. Home of Major John Purdon retired in 1911.
Sheepstown House	Sheepstown house is named on the early 20th century 25 inch OS map. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) it was occupied by James Seery, valued at £15 and held from the representatives of Robert M Tighe. The Seery family were still resident at the beginning of the 20th century. This house is extant.
Craddanstown Lodge	Craddanstown Lodge is named on the first edition OS map as Craddanstown House, and on 25 inch as Craddanstown Lodge. It is a three-bay two-storey house, built about 1800, with two storey wings on each side. Craddenstown House was the home of Lockhart Ramage in 1814 and 1837 so must refer to the Lodge. Lockhart Ramage was resident at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854), when the house was valued at £17 and held from the Earl of Longford. The census of 1911 records Lockhart Ramage aged 82, gentleman farmer, as head of the household. O’Brien writes that the house was sold in 2013 and it was on the market again in 2017. This house was more substantial than the other Craddanstown until the other was altered about 1860.