Rookwood, Ballygar, Co Galway – demolished ca 1950 

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. 245. “A three storey three bay C18 house…The seat of the Thewles family; acquired in 1^st half of C19 by Edmond Kelly, passed to a nephew, Robert Bayley; sold after the death of E.K. Bayley 1898.…Demolished ca 1950.” 

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.