Ashfield Lodge, Cootehill, Co Cavan – gone 

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Ashfield Lodge, Cootehill, Co Cavan – gone 

Mark Bence-Jones. A Guide to Irish Country Houses (originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978); Revised edition 1988 Constable and Company Ltd, London.

p. 12. “(Clements/IFR) a two storey late-Georgian house… sold after the death of Lt-Col M.L.S. Clements 1952; subsequently demolished.” [Marcus Louis Stewart Clements (1879-1952)]

Colonel Henry John Clements (1781-1843) of Ashfield, Co. Cavan by Martin Cregan, courtesy of Christie’s Irish Sale 2001. He was the son of Henry Theophilus Clements (1750-1795), a brother of the 1st Earl of Leitrim, and Catherine Beresford (1761-1836). He married Louisa Stewart (1778-1850) of Killymoon, Country Tyrone, daughter of James Stewart (1741-1821).

Not in National inventory 

Listed in Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland by The Knight of Glin, David J. Griffin and Nicholas K. Robinson, published by The Irish Architectural Archive and The Irish Georgian Society, 1988.

p. 39. A two storey late Georgian bow-fronted house. The seat of the Clements family. Sold in 1952. Demolished.

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