Ballyburly, Edenderry, Co Offaly – does not survive
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. 19. “(Wakely;LGI1912) Of late C17 or early C18, probably built either by John Wakely who was MP for Kilbeggan in 1692 and died ca. 1713, or by his son Thomas….Burnt 1888; afterwards rebuilt to the design of James Franklin Fuller.”
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.
p. 121. “An important two storey late 17C or early 18C house built for John Wakely or his son Thomas. Burnt in 1888.”
Outbuildings, entrance gates, walled garden and graveyard of the former Ballyburly House, built c.1800. Ballyburly House and church do not survive. Two-storey outbuildings with pitched slate roofs, pebbledashed walls and replacement windows and doors, now in use as houses. The main entrance gates to the estate comprises ashlar limestone piers flanked by rock-faced ashlar limestone walls.
Though the main house and church do not survive, two ranges of the former outbuildings have been converted into houses and are still in occupation. The graveyard to Ballyburly Church survives in a neglected and overgrown state.
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