Lisagoan, Co Cavan – ruin 

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Lisagoan, Co Cavan – ruin 

Lisagoan, County Cavan, entrance front c. 1975, photograph: William Garner. 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.

Bence-Jones, Mark. 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. 185. (Humphrys/LGI1912) “A Classical house of ca 1820, built as a dower house for Ballyhaise. Diocletian window and doorcase recessed in tall arch; Wyatt windows. Bifurcating staircase, extending into bow at rear, the two flights being cantilevered out of the back wall of the house. Now a ruin.”

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. Interesting, well planned, two storey, classical house of c. 1810. Stone tripartite doorcase with oval window above (which may originally have been Diocletian) all recessed in an arch. Built as the dower house to Ballyhaise for the Humphrey family. Now a ruin.

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