Popefield, Ballylinan, Co Laois 

Popefield, Ballylinan, 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. 232. “(Redmond/LGI1937 supp) A single-storey Georgian house with curved bow.” 

https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/12802001/popefield-house-killyganard-county-laois

Detached single-storey late-Georgian villa with dormer attic, built c.1825, with single- and two-storey bows. Stable complex to site. Detached gate lodge to site. Double-pitched and part-conical slate roof with nap rendered chimneystacks and overhanging box eaves. Roughcast rendered walls, painted. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills and replacement six-over-six timber sash windows, c.1990. Wyatt-style window openings to bowed projecting bays. Round-headed door opening with timber panelled door with sidelights and overlight. Interior not inspected. House is set back from road in own grounds; landscaped grounds to site; gravel drive and forecourt to approach. Stable complex to site with group of detached single- and two-storey outbuildings. Detached lodge to site with bowed ends. 

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