Merlin Park, near Galway, Co Galway– ‘lost’ 

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.

p. 205. “(Blake/IFR; Hodgson/LGI1952; Waithman/LGI1912). A long two storey house built ca 1807-8 for Charles Blake. Of six bays and three sided bows. Given windows with mullions and transoms in C17 style later in C19. Sold in the Encumbered Estates Court by C.K. Blake 1852; bought by Henry Hodgson. In 1912, the seat of W.S. Waitman.” 

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.

Not in national inventory