Camlin, Co Donegal  – demolished  

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. 55. “(Tredennick/LGI1912) A Tudor-Gothic house of ca 1840, by John B. Keane, rather similar to Keane’s building at Castle Irvine, Co Fermanagh….Now demolished. 

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. 55. “Tudor revival castle designed by John B. Keane in 1838 for John Tredenick incorporating an earlier house. The Gothic arched entrance gate remains. Demolished.”

David Hicks, Irish County Houses: Chronicle of Change. Collins Press, Cork, 2012.  
p. 224. “Another of J.B. Keane’s commissions… built for John Tredennick and was an extension to an earlier building… The Tredennick famly were of Cornish origin and established themselves in Donegal in the seventeenth century. …In 1928 the entire contents of the castle were offered for auction in a two day sale…A caretaker lived in the castle until it was sold in 1942 when a lot of the estate land was purchased by the Land Commission.   
In the 1940s when hydroelectric power stations were being constructed on the River Earne, the engineers calculated that Camlin would be flooded by the scheme and so it was demolished. When the water levels rose, it was found that the demolition of the castle had been totally unnecessary. Only the impressive castellated entrance gates with their large tower now remain. …