Landed Estates
University of Galway

Cummerstown House

Houses within 5km of this house

Displaying 7 houses.

Houses within 5km of Cummerstown House

Displaying 7 houses.

House name Description
Derry Cottage/Drumcree Cottage Drumcree Cottage (also known as Derry Cottage) is named on the first edition OS map. Lewis records Derry Cottage as the home of Mrs Berry in 1837. Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) records Letitia C Berry (nee Smyth) as resident in a house valued at £20 and held from Robert Smyth. A building still stands on the site.
Drumcree Drumcree House was a seven-bay two-storey over basement Palladian country house, built in the mid-18th century for a branch of the Smyth family. In 1814 William Smyth was resident. By 1837 his son Robert occupied the house and Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) records Robert Smyth holding the house in fee. It was valued at £60. By the early 20th century Henry Maxwell Smyth had inherited the property. He was there in 1906 when the valuation had increased to £75. O’Brien writes that the house was abandoned after the death of H M Smyth in 1961 and is now an ivy clad ruin. Photo of Drumcree
Glananea/Ralphsdale Glananea House, formerly Ralphsdale, as it is named on the first edition OS map, with laid out gardens immediately to the back of the house. This two-storey six-bay late 18th century house was built to the design of Samuel Wooley for Ralph Smyth, second son of William Smyth of Drumcree. Ralph’s son William Thomas inhabited the house in 1814 and was succeeded by his son another Ralph, who was resident in 1837 when Lewis recorded that his demesne is ‘entered by a beautiful gate’, which is now at Rosmead. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) the house was valued at £50 when occupied by William Edward Smyth who held it from Robert Smyth (of Drumcree). The Smyth family were resident in 1901 but a caretaker occupied the house in 1911. Glananea remains a private residence. Photo of Glananea/Ralphsdale
Barbavilla Barbavilla House is shown on the first edition OS map as situated in a large demesne with laid out gardens close to the house. It is a nine-bay two-storey over basement house, originally built by William Smyth in 1730. Smyth named the house after his wife Barbara Ingoldsby. The house was later altered by his grandson William Smyth in 1790. In the mid-19th century the house was valued at £72 and held in fee by William B Smyth. In 1906 William Lyster Smyth was the occupant when the buildings were valued at £58.5 and held with 434 acres of untenanted land. The Smyths sold Barbavilla in 1955. The house is now surrounded by large buildings relating to the production of artisan products for Barbavilla Dairy. Photo of Barbavilla
Sallymount House Sallymount House is a three-bay two-storey house with dormer attic, dating from the early 19th century. It was the home of the Rotheram family for much of the 19th and 20th centuries. The Rotherams acquired it from the Nugent family. G S Rotheram was resident in 1837 and Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) records George Rothram as the occupant holding the house valued at £35 from Priscilla Nugent. Members of the Rotheram family owned 560 acres in the 1870s. The estate was acquired by the Land Commission in the early 1960s and the house became derelict but has been restored recently.
Lough Bawn Lough Bawn House, Carrick, a two-storey, four-bay house built c 1840s as it is not marked on the first edition OS map. It was the home of the Battersby family. George Battersby held it in fee at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) when the building was valued at £28.5. John Radcliff Battersby, JP and farmer, and family were resident at the beginning of the 20th century and the house remains in the possession of Battersby descendants, see https://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2021/06/459-battersby-of-bobsville-lakefield.html Photo of Lough Bawn
Glenidan Glenidan House is named on both the first edition six inch and 25 inch OS maps. Stephen Moore lived at Glenidan in 1814. Lewis records it as the residence of Blandford. Robert McCormick held Glenidan, valued at £10.10 from Patrick E Murphy at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854). This house appears to be still extant.