Lakeview, Killarney, Co Kerry
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. 181. “(O’Connell, Bt/PB) A two storey stucco faced C19 house with an Ionic porte-cochere.”
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Detached four-bay two-storey over basement house, built c. 1870, comprising three-bay two-storey main block with single-storey prostyle diastyle Ionic porte cochere having clustered columns and single-bay two-storey projecting end bay to left with single-storey box bay window to ground floor. Five-bay two-storey side elevation with single-bay two-storey canted projecting bay to centre approached by flight of steps. Possibly in use as hotel in 1939, now in private residential use. Pitched and hipped slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks, parapet walls with cornice and blocking course. Rendered walls. Timber one-over-one pane sliding sash windows with limestone sills and render architraves. Oriel window to advanced bay. Render brackets to sills. Glazed and panelled double-leaf door with side lights and tiled porch. Detached two-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c. 1870, to north with single-bay single-storey gabled advanced end bay to left and single-bay single-storey gabled advanced bay to north elevation. Gateway, built c. 1870, to north comprising four limestone ashlar piers with cast-iron gates and railings. Winding avenue flanked by beech trees and hedges.
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At the time of Griffith’s Valuation, James O’Connell was leasing the property from the Herbert estate when it was valued at £13. Lewis calls the house Lakeville in 1837. Leet also mentions a house called Lakeville in 1814 which he refers to as the residence of Francis Russell. Bary states that the existing house was built by James O’Connell in 1870 after he was made a Baronet but that there was an earlier house here also. The latter is mentioned as the residence of Mr. O’Connell in the Ordnance Survey Name Books of the 1830s. It was built in 1740 and located in the southern end of the townland. In 1894 Slater refers to Lakeview as the residence of Sir Maurice J. O’Connell. The house is still extant.
In O’Hea O’Keeffe, Jane. Voices from the Great Houses: Cork and Kerry. Mercier Press, Cork, 2013.
p. 229. Maurice Hugh Ricardo Ross O’Connell lives beside the sea at Fenit, Co Kerry. Maurice is descended from the Lakeview, Killarney branch of the O’Connells. Sir James O’Connell of Lakeview, 1st Baronet (1786-1872) was the younger brother of ‘the Liberator’ Daniel O’Connell.
Maurice’s father Basil was the great-grandson of the 1st Baronet. James the 1st Baronet acted as his brother’s man of business, and also his political organiser in Kerry. He married Jane O’Donoghue of the great Gaelic family and genealogical heiress to The O’Donoghue of the Glens and the MacCarthy Mor. The couple’s elder son, [p. 230] Sir Maurice James O’Connell, married Emily Clunies Ross O’Connor and they had four sons and a daughter. Their daughter Ellen O’Connell was brought up in the Church of Ireland, as was her mother, and she married Lieut Gen. Charles Tucker…
p. 230. … My grandfather [ie. Of Maurice Hugh Ricardo Ross O’Connell], Morgan O’Connell, died in 1919…. He was employed by the Land Commission in Ireland… He had inherited Lakeview from his brother in 1907 and had come to live there with his family. His wife was Mary Pauline Hickie, sister of Major Gen Sir Wm Hickie…All my able-bodied male relatives served in the British armed forces during WWI, and their sons in WWII. The exception was my maternal uncle and godfather, Rickard Deasy, who joined the Irish Defense Forces and was later a high-profile president of the National Farmer’s Association during its agitation in the 1960s.
p. 231. Maurice’s father Basil applied for a position as a police cadet in the Malay States [now Malaysia].
p. 232. While in Malaysia, Basil O’Connell married Lucila Deasy, who was his first cousin
http://lordbelmontinnorthernireland.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-oconnell-baronets.html
THE O’CONNELL BARONETS WERE MAJOR LANDOWNERS IN COUNTY KERRY, WITH 18,752 ACRES
The surname of O’CONNELL, according to authority of Irish writers, emanated from Conal Gabra, an ancient Prince of the royal line of HEBER, son of MILESIUS, from whom likewise the districts of Upper and Lower Connello, County Limerick, acquired their denomination.
From this district the O’Connells removed to Iveragh, in the western extremity of Kerry, and remained there for a considerable period, until the rebellion of 1641 transplanted them, with many other victims of that disastrous event, to County Clare.
DANIEL O’CONNELL, of Ahavore, in the barony of Iveragh, second son of Geoffrey O’Connell, Lord of Ballycarbery, who was High Sheriff of County Kerry, 1614, and died in 1635, having taken no part in the insurrection of 1641, preserved his estate.
He married Alice, daughter of Christopher Segrave, of Cabra, County Dublin, and had issue,
JOHN, of whom hereafter;
Maurice, died in 1715.
The elder son and heir,
JOHN O’CONNELL, of Ahavore and Derrynane, raised a company of foot for the service of JAMES II, and embodied it in the regiment of his cousin, Colonel Maurice O’Connell.
He distinguished himself at the siege of Londonderry in 1689, as well as at the battles of the Boyne and Aughrim; and returning to Limerick with his shattered regiment, was included in the capitulation of that city.
Captain O’Connell wedded Elizabeth, daughter of Christopher Conway, of Clahane, County Kerry, and had issue,
Maurice;
DANIEL, of whom we treat;
Geoffrey Octave;
Anne; Clare; Elizabeth; another daughter.
Mr O’Connell died ca 1740.
The second son,
DANIEL O’CONNELL (c1701-70), of Derrynane, espoused Mary, daughter of Duff O’Donoughue, of County Kerry, and had twenty-two children, of whom the following arrived at maturity,
John;
Maurice, his heir;
MORGAN, of whom presently;
Connell;
Daniel, Lieutenant-General Count O’Connell;
Honora; Joan; Mary; Ellen; Abigail; Anne; Elizabeth; Alice; Catherine.
Mr O’Connell’s second son,
MORGAN O’CONNELL (1739-1809), of Carhen, County Kerry, farmer, landlord, and general store proprietor, married Catherine, daughter of John O’Mullane, of Whitechurch, County Cork, and had issue,
Daniel, MP, known as The Liberator or The Emancipator;
Maurice Morgan;
John;
JAMES, of whom we treat;
Honoria; Bridget; Catherine; Mary; Ellen; Alicia.
The youngest son,
JAMES O’CONNELL (1786-1872), of Lakeview, County Kerry, wedded, in 1818, Jane, daughter of Charles O’Donoughue, of the Glens, and Chief of the name, and had issue,
MAURICE JAMES, his successor;
Daniel James;
Charles James;
James;
Morgan James.
Mr O’Connell was created a baronet in 1869, designated of Lakeview and Ballybeggan, County Kerry.
He was succeeded by his eldest son,
SIR MAURICE JAMES O’CONNELL, 2nd Baronet (1821-96), JP DL, High Sheriff of County Kerry, 1850, who espoused, in 1855, Emily Clunes, daughter of Rear-Admiral Sir Richard O’Conor, KCH, and had issue,
Maurice (1858-81);
DANIEL ROSS, 3rd Baronet;
MORGAN ROSS, 4th Baronet;
James Ross.
Sir Maurice was succeeded by his eldest surviving son,
SIR DANIEL ROSS O’CONNELL, 3rd Baronet (1861-1905), JP DL, High Sheriff of County Kerry, 1891, who died unmarried, when the title devolved upon his brother,
SIR MORGAN ROSS O’CONNELL, 4th Baronet (1862-1919), JP DL, High Sheriff of County Kerry, 1907, who married, in 1884, Mary Pauline, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel James Francis Hickie, and had issue,
MAURICE JAMES ARTHUR, his successor;
Donal Bernard;
Basil Morgan;
Lucila Emily; another daughter.
Sir Morgan was succeeded by his eldest son,
SIR MAURICE JAMES ARTHUR O’CONNELL, 5th Baronet (1889-1949), MC, Captain, Royal Fusiliers, who wedded, in 1920, Margaret Mary, daughter of Matthew John Purcell, and had issue,
MORGAN DONEL CONAIL, his successor;
Joan Mary Lucilla Margaret.
Sir Maurice was succeeded by his only son,
SIR MORGAN DONEL CONAIL O’CONNELL, 6th Baronet (1923-89), who espoused, in 1953, Elizabeth, daughter of Major John MacCarthy-O’Leary, and had issue,
MAURICE JAMES DONAGH MacCARTHY, his successor;
John Morgan Ross MacCarthy;
Frances Mary Margaret; Susan Jane Anne; Katherine Lucila Jean; Claire Helen Pauline.
Sir Morgan was succeeded by his eldest son,
SIR MAURICE JAMES DONAGH MacCARTHY O’CONNELL, 7th Baronet (1958-), who married, in 1993, Frances Susan, daughter of Clive Raleigh, and has issue,
MORGAN, born in 2003.
LAKEVIEW HOUSE, Killarney, County Kerry, is a two-storey, Italianate, stucco-faced house of 1869.
The house was built by Sir James O’Connell, 1st Baronet, shortly before he died.
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