Ballymacool, Letterkenny, Co Donegal – ruin  

Ballymacool, Letterkenny, Co Donegal – 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. 24. “(Boyd/LGI1958) A house said to have been originally built ca 1770, but rebuilt in Tudor-Revival early to mid-C19. Two storey with a gabled and dormer gabled attic; symmetrical entrance-front, with projecting porch-gable between two wider gables; rectangular mullioned windows with hood mouldings over them, corbelled oriel above entrance door. Side elevation with two dormer gables and a gable, and a single-storey three sided bow. Other side with narrow tower-like projection, surmounted by small gable and finial. Single storey wing at back. 

Ballymacool House, County Donegal, photograph by Robert French, Lawrence Photograph Collection, National Library of Ireland.

In Blake, Tarquin. Abandoned Mansions of Ireland II: More Portraits of Forgotten Stately Homes. Collins Press, Cork, 2012. 

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