Athgoe Park, Hazelhatch, Co Dublin 

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. 14. “(Skerrett/LGI1886; O’Carroll/LGI1958; Kennedy-Skipton/IFR) A mid-C18 house of 2 storeys and 5 bays, with a steep pediment-gable, a high sprocketed roof and a pedimented and fanlighted doorcase; standing alongside the well-preserved medieval tower-house of the Locke family, who also built C18 house. A lower wing connects the house to buildings behind the old tower. After the death of Peter Warren Locke, ca. 1832, Athgoe passed to his two sisters, Mrs Skerrett and Mrs O’Carroll, who were his heirs-at-law. Some years later, Mrs O’Carroll’s son, Redmond O’Carroll, was looking through a bundle of old leases when a paper fell out which he found was the Will of Peter Warren Locke, leaving all his estates and property to his illegitimate daughter. Being a man of strict honour, Redmond O’Carroll did not destroy the fatal document, as others might have done; but promptly handed it over to the lady who would benefit from it; even though this meant that he and his family as well as his Skerrett cousins would be destitute. Eventually, however, Athgoe passed to his nephew, F.J.L. O’Carroll. In recent years it was the home of the late H.K. Kennedy-Skipton, FRSA.”