| Description |
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. |
