Belvoir, Sixmilebridge, Co Clare – ruin 

Belvoir, Sixmilebridge, Co Clare – ruin 

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. 40. “(Wilson Lynch/LGI1958) An early C19 “gingerbread Gothic” house; later porch, ogee doorcase and pinnacles. Simple Gothic chapel joined to house by screen; according to an inscription  on a stone, it was “erected in return for the devoted attention of a wife during an illness in 1862-63.” The house is now a ruin but the chapel is still roofed and in use.” 

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.

An early 19C Tudor Revival house built for David Wilson with a single storey porch. Attached chapel built 1862-1863 still in use. Now a ruin.”

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