Description |
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. |