Martinstown House, Kilmallock, Co Limerick 

Martinstown House, Kilmallock, Co Limerick 

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. 203. “(McCalmont/IFR) A modern house in the Classical style, built ca 1972 for Mrs Dermot McCarlmont to the design of Mrs Baker-Baker; executed by Mr Christopher Jacob. Two storey seven bay main block with pedimented doorcase; single-storey wings. Generous roofs, on cornices, bold chimneystacks.” 

and supplement: ” The house was in fact designed by C. Harvey Jacob and Associates incollaboration with Mrs Baker-Baker. 

Not in national inventory 

http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/property-list.jsp?letter=M 

Martinstown was the residence of M. Walsh in 1837. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation this was a house on the Trench/Gascoigne estate valued at £10+ and inhabited by William O’Grady. Bence Jones refers to a modern house built in circa 1972 at Martinstown, Kilmalloc

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