Sheffield House, Portlaoise, 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. 

supplement 

p. 304. “[Cassan/LGI1912] A three storey five bay gable-ended C18 house. Quoins rising through bottom storey only, ending at string-course; Gibbsian doorcase.” 

https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/12801804/sheffield-house-cappoley-county-laois

Cappoley, Co Laois 

Detached seven-bay two-storey coach house, built c.1860. Now in use as outbuilding. Detached two-storey outbuilding, now derelict. Remains of detached house to site, now in ruins. Walled garden to site, now derelict. Double-pitched slate roof with brick chimneystack, ashlar coping; timber laths and rafters. Coursed rubble limestone walls with projecting course to eaves. Elliptical-headed carriageway to ground floor with limestone ashlar voussoirs. Square-headed window openings to first floor with limestone sills and remains of timber windows. Timber floors to lofts in ruinous condition. Former coach house is set back from road in own grounds; landscaped grounds to site (now part-overgrown). Detached single-storey house, c.1950, on site of earlier ranges. Gateway comprising monolithic piers with wrought iron gate.