Ballycanvan House, Waterford, Co Waterford

Ballycanvan House, Waterford, Co Waterford

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. “(Power/IFR; Gallwey/IFR) A C18 house built onto an old castle. Doorway with broken pediment and engaged Doric columns, not centrally placed. The seat of the Bolton family, before they built the nearby Faithlegg house; bought, together with Faithlegg, by the Power family 1819 and eventually inherited by Mrs H.W.D. Gallwey (nee Power). Afterwards demolished; the doorway is now at Georgetown House.”

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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