Wardstown, County Donegal  

Wardstown, County Donegal  

Wardstown, County Donegal, entrance front photograph: Alistair Rowan, 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. 282. “A three storey Georgian house with curved end bows and also a curved bow in the centre of its front. Blocking round doorway; camber-headed windows. Now a ruin.” 

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

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. A three storey house built in 1740 somewhat in the style of Sir John Vanbrugh’s smaller houses. Pair of staircases at the rere of the corner towers seem to be slightly later addition. Now a ruin.”

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