Lansdowne Park, Portarlington, Co Laois – ruinous 

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. 299. “(Moore, sub Drogheda, E/PB) A large stucco-faced house with stone trimmings, predominantly early C19 but remodelled on several occasions; and with a gable-ended wing which may have been the original C18 house. Principal front of two storeys and seven bays, the outer bay on either side breaking forward, with a single-storey three bay central feature of Doric pilasters. Quoins and round-shouldered window surrounds; entablatures over outer windows in lower storey. Opposite front consisting of a three storey three bay centre between slightly projecting two storey two bay wings of the same height; the windows of this front also having shouldered surrounds. Irregular side elevation with bow. Rich, gilded interior; Venetian niches and round-headed scrolled chimneypiece in hall; screen of composite columns. The house is spectacularly situated, facing down the River Barrow. Now ruinous.” 

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Detached seven-bay two-storey house, c. 1830, with tetrastyle Doric loggia. Now in ruins.