County Laois houses A-Z (with photos)

by jenjunebug

County Laois houses A-Z 

Houses in bold are in Mark Bence-Jones

Abbeyleix House, County Laois https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2024/11/09/abbeyleix-house-county-laois/

Abbeyleix House, County Laois, photograph courtesy of Colliers.

Aghaboe, Ballybrophy, Co Laois https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2024/11/21/aghaboe-or-aghabhoe-county-laois-mbj/

Aghaboe, County Laois, 1981.
Aghaboe, County Laois.

Aharney House, Durrow, Co Laois (ruinous) – just a shell 

Aharney House, County Laois, courtesy Mark Bence-Jones.

Allworth House, Abbeyleix, Co Laois 

Alta villa, Coolrain, Co Laois 

Ballagharahin, Co Laois

Ballaghmore Castle, R.445, Borris in Ossory, Co Laois – section 482 https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2024/10/16/ballaghmore-castle-borris-in-ossory-co-laois/

Ballaghmore Castle, County Laois.

Ballintubbert House and Gardens, Stradbally, Co Laois – open to public https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2024/10/16/ballintubbert-house-and-gardens-stradbally-co-laois-open-to-public/

Ballyadams Castle, Co Laois – ruin 

Ballyfin House, Co. Laois – hotel https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2024/10/16/ballyfin-house-co-laois-hotel/

Ballyfin, County Laois: The south front of Ballyfin, with the grand bow window for the library. Image from archive of Country Life 31/08/2011  [Not Used]. Photograph by Paul Barker.

Ballykilcavan, Stradbally, Laois – runs a brewery https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/03/15/ballykilcavan-stradbally-laois-section-482/

Ballykilcavan House, Stradbally, Co. Laois courtesy Archiseek.
Ballykilcavan House, Stradbally, Co. Laois courtesy National Inventory.

Ballymanus, Stradbally, Co Laois https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/03/16/ballymanus-stradbally-co-laois/

Ballyshanduffe House (also known as The Derries), Portarlington, Co Laois https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/03/16/ballyshanduffe-house-also-known-as-the-derries-portarlington-co-laois/

Belan, Co Laois https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/02/25/belan-county-laois/

Belan House, County Laois, courtesy National Inventory

Bellegrove (also Rathdaire), Ballybrittas, Co Laois – (demolished) https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/03/16/bellegrove-also-rathdaire-ballybrittas-co-laois-demolished/

Bellegrove, County Laois, photographs by Colin Colleran on facebook.

Belmont House, or Belmount, or The Lodge, Co Laois 

Bianonci House, Oldborris, Castletown, Pike of Rush Hall, Co. Laois https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/11/03/bianonci-house-oldborris-castletown-pike-of-rush-hall-co-laois/

Blandsfort, Abbeyleix, Co Laois https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/03/16/blandsfort-abbeyleix-co-laois/

Blandsfort, County Laois, courtesy of National Inventory.

Brittas Castle, Clonaslee, Co Laois – ruin https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/03/16/brittas-castle-clonaslee-co-laois-ruin/

Brittas Castle, County Laois, courtesy National Inventory.

Brockley Park, Stradbally, Co Laois – a ruin https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/02/17/brockley-park-stradbally-co-laois-a-ruin/

Brockley Park, County Laois drawing room ceiling c. 1944, 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.

Capard, Rosenalis, Co Laois https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/03/17/capard-rosenalis-co-laois/

Capard, County Laois, courtesy Savills.

Cappakeel House, Cappakeel, Emo, Emo, Co. Laois https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/08/07/cappakeel-house-emo-co-laois/

Castlecuffe, Co Laois – ruins 

Castle Durrow, Co Laois – a hotel, gardens open to public https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2024/10/16/castle-durrow-co-laois-a-hotel/

Castle Durrow, County Laois

Clonageera House, Durrow, Co Laois https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/03/17/clonageera-house-durrow-co-laois/

Cloonageera, County Laois, courtesy National Inventory.

Cloncourse, Co Laois – ruin 

Coolbanagher, Co Laois – demolished 

Coolrain, Co Laois – a ruin 

Corbally House, Corbally, Co Laois 

Cuffesborough, Durrow, Co Laois – dilapidated https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/03/17/cuffesborough-durrow-co-laois/

Cullahill Castle, Co Laois – ruin 

The Derries, Co Laois (see Ballyshanduffe House) 

Derrin Castle, Borris-in-Ossory, Co Laois 

Dunmore, Durrow, County Laois

Dunmore, County Laois, 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.

Edmondsbury, (formerly Newtown), Co Laois https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2024/10/03/edmondsbury-formerly-newtown-co-laois/

The Elms, Portarlington, Co Laois  https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2024/10/03/the-elms-portarlington-co-laois/

 Emo Court, (also known as Emo Park), Portarlington, County Laois – OPW https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2024/10/04/emo-court-also-known-as-emo-park-portarlington-county-laois/

Everton House, Crockaun, Co Laois https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2024/10/04/everton-house-crockaun-or-oldderrig-co-laois/

Garryhinch House, Co Laois – burnt 1914 https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2024/10/25/garryhinch-house-co-laois-burnt-ca-1914/

Glenmalyre, Ballybrittas, Co Laois https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2024/10/25/glenmalyre-co-laois/

Glenmalyre, Co Laois courtesy National Inventory.

Gracefield,  Ballylin, Co Laois https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2024/10/25/gracefield-ballylinan-co-laois/

Granston Manor, Abbeyleix, Co Laois – burnt 1977 https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2024/10/25/grantston-manor-co-laois-almost-completely-gutted-by-fire-1977/

Heath House, Ballybrittas, Co Laois https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2024/10/25/heath-house-ballybrittas-co-laois-now-a-national-school/

Heywood, Ballinakill, County Laois – burned, can visit gardens 

https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2024/10/11/heywood-ballinakill-county-laois-office-of-public-works-garden/

Jamestown, Co Laois https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/03/17/jamestown-co-laois/

Jamestown, County Laois, courtesy National Inventory.

Kellyville, Stradbally, County Laois

Rev. Thomas Kelly of Kellyville Athy, seated in his study, holding a book, by Maria Spilsbury Taylor. Courtesy of Adams auction 16 Oct 2018. Born in 1769 Thomas Kelly was the only son of Judge Thomas Kelly of Kellyville. Having initially intended to follow his father into the law he changed his mind taking holy orders in 1792. Ordained into the Church of England he returned to Ireland where he proved a popular evangelical preacher but soon fell out with Archbishop Fowler of Dublin who forbade him to preach in any church in the Dublin archdiocese. Kelly, in turn, established the Kellyites a fringe Anglican group much like the Plymouth Brethern or the Walkerites. Already a man of independent means, Kelly made an advantageous marriage to Ms Tighe of Rosanna which enabled him to establish meeting houses in Dublin, Athy, Portarlington, Wexford and Waterford. It is presumably through his wife that Rev. Kelly would have encountered Maria Spilsbury Taylor. She executed numerous commissions for the Tighes including portraits of various family members both at their home, Rosanna, in Co. Wicklow and their townhouse overlooking St Stephens Green in Dublin.
REVEREND THOMAS KELLY, c.1835 Attributed to Martin Cregan.

Knapton, Abbeyleix, Co Laois – demolished https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/02/17/knapton-abbeyleix-co-laois-demolished/

Knightstown, Portarlington Co Laois https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/03/18/knightstown-portarlington-co-laois/

Knockatrina, Co Laois https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/02/17/knockatrina-co-laois-ruin/

Lamberton Park, Stradbally, Co Laois https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/02/17/lamberton-park-stradbally-co-laois-demolished/

Lansdowne Park, Portarlington, Co Laois – ruinous https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/03/18/lansdowne-park-portarlington-co-laois/

Lea Castle, Co Laois 

Lea Castle, County Laois, photograph by Robert French, (between ca. 1865-1914), Lawrence Photograph Collection, National Library of Ireland.

Lea House, Portarlington, Co Laois 

Millbank, Mountrath, Co Laois – whole house rental https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/03/18/millbank-county-laois/

Millbrook, Co Laois – ruinous 

Morette Castle, Co Laois – ruin 

Mount Henry, Portarlington, Co Laois  – now a convent https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/03/18/mount-henry-portarlington-co-laois-now-a-convent/

Mount Saint Anne, Mount Henry Crossroads, Killenard, County Laois

Mount Saint Anne, Mount Henry Crossroads, Killenard, County Laois, courtesy National Inventory.

Moyne House, Durrow, County Laois https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/03/18/moyne-house-durrow-county-laois/

Newtown, Co Laois (see Edmondsbury) 

Newtown House, Durrow, Co Laois – recently sold, with mill 

Popefield, Ballylinan, Co Laois https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/03/18/popefield-ballylinan-co-laois/

Popefield, Ballylinan, Co Laois courtesy National Inventory.

Rath House, Ballybrittas, Co Laois https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/03/18/rath-house-ballybrittas-co-laois/

Rath House, Ballybrittas, Co Laois courtesy National Inventory.

Rathdaire House (see Bellegrove), Co Laois 

Rosnashane House, Cappanrush, Ballyfin, Co. Laois https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/09/01/rosnashane-house-cappanrush-ballyfin-co-laois/

Roundwood, Mountrath, Co Laois – B&B and hotel https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2024/10/16/roundwood-mountrath-co-laois-guest-house/

Roundwood House, County Laois, photograph from the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage.

Rynn, Rosenallis, Co Laois – demolished https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/02/17/rynn-rosenallis-co-laois-demolished/

Shaen House, County Laois – nursing home https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/03/18/shaen-house-county-laois/ 

Sheffield House, Portlaoise, Co Laois https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/03/18/sheffield-house-portlaoise-co-laois/

Shrule Castle, Co Laois – ruin 

Springmount House, Shanahoe, Co Laois 

Stradbally Hall, Co Laois – section 482 https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2021/10/14/stradbally-hall-stradbally-co-laois/

Summer Grove, Mountmellick, Co Laois https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/01/24/summer-grove-or-garoon-mountmellick-co-laois/

Tinnakill, Abbeyleix, Co Laois – now a stud farm https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/03/18/tinnakill-abbeyleix-co-laois-now-a-stud-farm/

Tinnakill, County Laois, courtesy National Inventory.

Tintore House, Ballacolla, Abbeyleix, County Laois https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/05/31/tintore-house-ballacolla-abbeyleix-laois/

Westfield, Mountrath, Co Laois https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/03/18/westfield-mountrath-co-laois/

Woodbrook, Portarlington, Co Laois https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/03/18/woodbrook-portarlington-co-laois/

Woodbrook, Portarlington, County Laois courtesy National Inventory.

Woodbrook, Mountrath, County Laois https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/03/18/woodbrook-mountrath-county-laois/

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