Grange Beg House

Houses within 5km of this house

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Houses within 5km of Grange Beg House

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.
Derrymore	Derrymore House is described by O’Brien as a two-storey, five-bay house mid-18th century building. It is named on both the earliest OS 6 inch and 25 inch maps. In 1814 it was the home of Captain Daly and in 1837 Lewis describes it as the property of T J Fetherston Haugh of Bracklyn Castle. Still in Fetherstonhaugh possession at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854), it was occupied by Luke Nolan and valued at £15.10. The Nolan family were still resident at the beginning of the 20th century. The house is now a ruin.
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.
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.
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.
Craddanstown House	A building is marked on the first edition OS map at this site which is greatly expanded and named on the 25 inch map as Craddanstown House. The originally house probably dates from the early 19th century and the building was extensively altered sometime in the mid-19th century. Valued at £10 and occupied by James Gibson at the time of Griffiths Valuation (publ. 1854), when it was held from the Earl of Longford. James Gibson and family were still resident at the beginning of the 20th century.
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.
Grange More House	Grange More House, located in a large demesne on the first edition OS map. It was a five-bay three-storey over basement house, built in 1823 by John Fetherston inherited by his nephew Edward Briscoe of Riverdale (O’Brien). There must have been an earlier house as the Taylor and Skinner maps of the late 1770s mention Grangemore of Fetherston Esq. Leet records John Fetherston of Grangemore, Killucan in 1814 and it was the seat of Edward Briscoe in 1837 when it was described as 'a handsome house in a well-planted demesne'. Valued at £60 it was occupied by Captain William Graham at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) and held from the Briscoes minors. The mansion house at Grange More was in the occupation of Augusta E Magan in 1906 [she had died in 1905] who held it with 1,922 acres of untenanted land. It is now a ruin.
Riverdale	Riverdale, located just south east of the industrial complex Shay Murtagh Pre Cast Ltd, it is named on both the first edition six inch and 25 inch maps. Home of W T Briscoe in 1837 and Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) records William Briscoe as the occupant, holding the house valued at £30 from Alexander Montgomery. O’Brien records this house as demolished.