Ballywillwill House, County Down 

Ballywillwill House, County Down 

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. 30. “A handsome two storey house built 1815-6 by Rev G.H. McD. Johnson. Five bay front; Wyatt windows in outer bays and centre of upper storey. Unusually long single-storey portico, supported by ten Doric columns, with urns and a large recumbent lion on its entablature; the centre four columns breaking forward. The centre bay in the upper storey is framed by Ionic pilasters; the three inner bays being framed by bands of rusticated quoins.” 

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