Derrylahan Park, Riverstown, Co Tipperary – burnt 1921 

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. 102. “(Head/LGI1958) A High Victorian house with steep gables and roofs, plate glass windows and decorative iron cresting on the ridges. Built 1862 at a cost of £15,000, to the design of Sir Thomas Newenham Deane. Burnt 1921.

 The main house, built in 1862, burnt in 1921 and no longer standing, was designed by Sir T. N. Deane, who is likely to have also been responsible for the associated buildings.

Only gate lodge remains:

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. 134. A high Victorian house designed by Sir Thomas Newenham Deane in 1862 for William H. Head. Burnt in 1921.

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Derrylahan Park, WALSHPARK, Tipperary North 

Detached two-bay single-storey gate lodge with attic, built c. 1860, with rectangular bay window to north gable and recent single-storey lean-to extension to rear. Pitched slate roof with cast-iron crestings, eaves brackets and gabled dormer to front. Cut stone coping stones to gables and cut stone chimneystack. Ashlar limestone walls with string course to bay window. Replacement timber windows and doors having chamfered cut stone surrounds and sills. Limestone gateway consists of carved stone gate piers having bowtell mouldings to corners and stepped caps, flanked by carved pedestrian entrances with chamfered surrounds and shouldered lintels with cut stone copings. Snecked limestone boundary walls with cut stone coping. 

Appraisal 

The gate lodge and main gateway to Derrylahan Park. The main house, built in 1862, burnt in 1921 and no longer standing, was designed by Sir T. N. Deane, who is likely to have also been responsible for the associated buildings. Built of very high quality materials and craftsmanship, the lodge and gateway have survived intact and give an indication of the quality of the house to which they belonged. The farmyard buildings of the demesne are located to the south of this entrance.