Blandsfort, Abbeyleix, Co Laois 

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. 43. “(Bland/IFR) An early C18 house of three storeys over a basement and 5 bays, built 1715 on the ruins of an O’More fortress. Parapeted roof; later porch; Georgian Gothic staircase window in rear elevation. Large hall, probably formed out of original hall and a room to one side of it; corner fireplace and C18 panelling, decorated with one or two Corinthian pilasters. Staircase hall at back; stairs of noble joinery, with carved decoration on stringings. Two small parlours at front and back, with corner fireplaces; what must have been a similar room, on the other side of the house, has been enlarged by a presumably C19 addition to form a larger dining room, with modillion cornice. Conservatory of ca 1850. Stables of 1792 by Patrick Farrell. Garden wall shaped like a C18 sham ruin.” 

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Detached five-bay three-storey over basement early-Georgian house, built c.1715, possibly originally two-storey. Renovated with projecting porch added (and possibly with top floor added). Stable complex, dated 1792, to site. Double-pitched and hipped behind parapets slate roof with ashlar chimney stacks. Brick infill to chimneys. Limestone ashlar wall to basement, random rubble stone over with limestone quoins to second floor. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills and three-over-three and nine-over-nine timber sash windows. Interior not inspected. House is set back from road in own grounds; landscaped grounds to site. Freestanding “sham ruin” folly to site. Detached stable block, dated 1792, to site with lunette window openings. Detached gate lodge to site. Now derelict. Gateway to site comprising limestone piers with wrought iron gates.