Castlegrove House, Tuam, Co Galway – burnt 1922

Mark Bence-Jones. 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.

supplement 

p. 293. “(Blake/IFR; Lewin/LGI1912) A house of late C18 appearance…Seat of a branch of the Blakes, which was subsequently established in Canada…bought ca 1860 in the Encumbered Estates by John William Cannon, from whom it was inherited by Frederick Thomas Lewin of Cloughans. Burnt 1922.” 

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.

In Blake, Tarquin. Abandoned Mansions of Ireland. Collins Press, Cork, 2010.