Tinnakill, Abbeyleix, Co Laois – now a stud farm
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. 273. “A three bay C18 house with a pedimented breakfront and a high roof.”
Listed as ruined on https://statelyhomes.wordpress.com/lost-ireland/
now a stud farm.
Tinnakill House is owned by Dermot Cantillon and Meta Osborne and managed by Ian Thompson.
We keep a resident band of 40+ broodmares and sell foals, yearlings and breeding stock at all the main Irish, UK and French sales.
The farm extends over 215 acres and is situated in a beautiful part of rural Co Laois. We look out on the Slieve Bloom mountains and yet are only 15 minutes from the M9 motorway, with ready access to all the major Irish stallion farms.
We have 53 boxes, (plus a 3-stall isolation unit) 14 all-weather paddocks, lunge ring, horse walker and extensive sheltered paddocks.
https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/12801735/tinnakill-house-tinnakill-mb-w-by-co-laois
Detached three-bay two-storey Georgian house with dormer attic, built c.1770, with pedimented central breakfront and two-storey return to rear. Now in ruins. No roof, originally double-pitched and hipped, with nap rendered brick chimneystack and ashlar coping to pediment. Nap rendered rubble limestone walls with ashlar bands to eaves and to pediment; inscribed plaques/datestones, dated 1874 and 1987. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills, red brick dressings and remains of six-over-six timber sash windows. Round-headed window opening to first floor central breakfront and oculus to pediment. Round-headed door opening with limestone block-and-start doorcase and timber panelled door with fanlight. Interior retains timber panelled internal shutters to window openings; fireplace to first floor with cast-iron hood and stone mantle over. House set back from road in own grounds; semi-circular stone steps to entrance. Group of detached single- and two-storey rubble stone outbuildings to site.
Irish Historic Houses 