Cahir-Guillamore, Kilmallock, Co Limerick 

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. 54. “O’Grady, Guillamore, V/PB 1953) A two storey late C17 house. High roof with dormers; projecting end bays. Now totally derelict.” 

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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Farmyard complex comprising multiple-bay two-storey buildings, built c. 1790, arranged around a yard. Remains of country house, now in a complete state of ruin, evidenced by roughly dressed limestone wall. Remains of pitched slate roofs with red brick chimneystacks. Rendered rubble stone walls. Square-headed openings having red brick voussoirs, limestone sills and remains of timber fittings. Elliptical-headed carriage-arches with red brick voussoirs to site. Detached three-bay two-storey former laundry to north-east of site. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Half-dormer window openings to first floor with timber casement windows and timber bargeboards. Segmental-headed openings set in shallow recesses to ground floor with timber lattic casement windows. Square-headed opening with timber panelled door flanked by sidelights having lattic glazing. Set within rubble limestone demesne walls. 

Appraisal 

Cahir Guillamore was formerly a two-storey late seventeenth-century house with a high roof with dormers and projecting end bays. The house has been totally destroyed except for the courtyard of outbuildings and laundry house, which are of clear architectural design. Simple in form, the outbuildings form a pleasing group of functional structures which would once have served a large demesne. The laundry building exhibits architectural detailing especially apparent in its half dormer and lattic windows. Set within the former demesne walls, they form a pleasing group of demesne related structures. It was formerly the house of Lieutenant Colonel O’Grady.