Ballynaguarde, Ballyneety, Co Limerick – ruin

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Ballynaguarde, Ballyneety, Co Limerick 

Ballynaguarde, County Limerick, c.1949. The main facade with statue of Hercules, photograph: Standish Stewart. 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.

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. 25. “(Croker/IFR) A house of two storeys over a high basement built 1774. Five bay front with three bay pedimented breakfront; wing with an Ionic porch. The seat of the Crokers, of whom the notorious “Boss” Croker of Tammany Hall was the grandson of a younger son (see Glencairn, County Dublin). The house fell into ruin earlier this century; according to the writer Frank O’Connor, there was a proposal to take a fine statue of Hercules, which stood by the front of the house, to Limerick; “but a committee of inspection, having studied him carefully fore and aft, decided that he would never do for the confraternities.” 

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. 

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