Landed Estates
University of Galway

Gartlandstown House

Estate(s)
Townland Gartlandstown
Civil Parish Faughalstown
PLU Castletowndelvin
DED Kilpatrick 30
County Westmeath
Barony Fore (Westmeath)
Description Gartlandstown House, located at the south eastern toe of Lough Derravargh, is a five-bay two-storey house, built about 1830 (boi) or perhaps replacing an earlier house as Garlandstown, Castlepollard, was the seat of Sterne Tighe in 1814. By 1837 J Murray was resident here and James Murray is recorded as the occupant at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) when the house was valued at £10 and held from James W M Berry. O’Brien writes that Michael Hope was resident in 1869 and in the mid-1870s the representatives of Michael Hope held 487 acres at Gartlandstown. Members of the Hope family was still in occupation at the time of the 1901 and 1911 censuses.
Gartlandstown (National Built Heritage Service)

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