Parteen-a-Lax, Ardnacrusha, Co Clare

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. 301. “(O’Brien, sub Inchiquin, B/PB; Gwynn/IFR; Hely-Hutchinson, sub Donoughmore/PB) A large single-storey house of cut stone with a curved roof, overlooking the Shannon, which the architect Robert Donough O’Brien, a son of the Young Ireland leader William Smith O’Brien, built for himself 1901. Very lofty rooms, some of them lit partly by skylights. Inherited by O’Brien’s niece, Miss Lucy Gwynn, the first Lady Registrar of Trinity College Dublin, who sold it 1941 to the widow of her cousin Donough Richard O’Brien. Now the home of Mr and Mrs David Hely-Hutchinson; Mrs Hely-Hutchinson, an artist who paints under her maiden name of Geraldine o’Brien, being Mrs Donough Richard O’Brien’s daughter. Parteen-a-Lax has a noteable garden.” 

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.

“Very attractive early 19C “cottage.” Single storey gable-ended porch and Tudor chimneystacks. Demolished c. 1926.“