Hillsbrook
Houses within 5km of this house
Displaying 5 houses.
Houses within 5km of Hillsbrook
Displaying 5 houses.
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| Prospect House | John Donnellan was leasing this property from the Kirwan estate at the time of Griffith's Valuation when it was valued at £4. It is labelled Prospect House on the 25-inch Ordnance Map of the 1890s. Occupied until 1977, now used for storage. |
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| Moyne | Built in the first half of the 19th century by Michael J. Browne who was forced to sell his estate in the mid 1850s when the house was described as ‘a magnificent pile of Grecian architecture of the Doric order’. John Stratford Kirwan bought the house and demesne in 1857 from Edward Browne who had purchased it in 1855. Kirwan advertised it for sale again in 1865. It was eventually sold to the Waithmans who later purchased Merlin Park. In 1912 the house became a hospice for infirm priests and in the 1930s was taken over by the Sacred Heart Missionaries. Since 1972 it has been the home of a number of people, including the broadcaster and poet George MacBeth and the singer Donovan. A floor plan and lithographs of the house are included in the various sale rentals. |
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| Elmhill | Occupied by Edward Rochfort in 1814. By the time of Griffith's Valuation there was no house with a valuation of more than £1.18 shillings in the townland. The 25-inch map of the 1890s shows a later building called Elmhill House slightly north of the original building. There is still an extant house at the site. |
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| Cooloo Cottage | In 1786 Wilson mentions "Coreloo" as the seat of Mr. Browne. Occupied by James O'Connor in 1814. Held in fee by Edward Browne at the time of Griffith's Valuation when it was valued at £25. It became the home of Michael O'Kelly in the latter half of the 19th century. Cooloo is still extant and occupied | |
| Newtown | The home of the Kelly family in the 19th century, sold to Major Frederick Carr in the early 1930s and sold again in the late 1960s. The house has had a number of owners in the intervening years and is well maintained. It was offered for sale in 2007. |
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