Portleman, Mullingar, Co Westmeath – demolished
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. 233. “(De Blaquiere, B/OB1917) p. 233. “(De Blaquiere, B/PB1917) A 3 storey six bay C18 house on rising ground above Lough Owel. Entrance door was in pillared recess; elaborate curved staircase. Its name is perhaps an allusion to the fact that Lt-Col John Blaquiere, 1st Lord de Blaquiere, who acquired it toward the end of C18, was the son of a Swiss immigrant. Now demolished.”
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. 144. demolished c. 1941.
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