Brockley Park, Stradbally, Co Laois – a ruin
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. 48. “(Jocelyn, Roden, E/PB; Young/LGI1912) A house built 1768 for 2nd Viscount Jocelyn, afterwards 1st Earl of Roden, Auditor-General of Ireland, to the design of Davis Duckart. Of three storeys over basement; seven bay entrance front with breakfront centre; garden front of four bays with a projection at one side ending in a three-sided bow. Two storey wing. Good interior plasterwork. By 1825 the Rodens had ceased to live at Brockley, which afterwards became the seat of the Young family; it was demolished 1944.”
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. 97. “A large three storey house built in 1768…Superb interior plasterwork and staircase. Dismanteld in 1944, some ruins remain.”
Irish Historic Houses 