Mount Coote, Kilmallock, Co Limerick 

Mount Coote, 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. 

A three storey Georgian house with an entrance front of two bays between two shallow curved bows; flanked by single-storey one bay wings with gables and bargeboards. Victorian porch.  Demolished ca 1960 and a new house built in the Georgian style to the design of Mr Donal O’Neill Flanagan; of two storeys and seven bays, with a pediment and a parapeted roof. The home of Mr. Alan Lillingston, who won the Champion Hurdle as an amateur rider, and Lady Vivienne Lillingston.” 

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1790s – Mount Coote, Kilmallock, Co. Limerick 

Fine Georgian residence of three storeys with single storey wings. Demolished in the late 1950s and replaced with a georgian-style house. Photograph from the Irish Tourist Association Survey 1943-44. 

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The county Limerick seat of the Coote family in the 18th and 19th centuries. Wilson refers to it as “the pleasant seat of Mr. Coote” in 1786. It was occupied by Chidley Coote in 1814. Lewis refers to it as the former seat of Chidley Coote in 1837. Charles Coote was resident at the time of Griffith’s Valuation and held the property in fee. The buildings were valued at £53. Their value had increased to £65 by 1906. The Irish Tourist Association surveyor wrote in 1943 that the house was bought by Sir Gilbert Greenall, who became 1st Lord Daresbury, who spent about £200,000 setting up a Model Farm. [Lord Daresbury also owned Clonshire]. Following his death three years previously it was sold and then run as a stud farm. Bence Jones writes that this house was demolished circa 1960 and a new house built in the Georgian style.   

Charles Eyre Coote (1801-1858), third son of Chidley Coote (1776-1843) by James Butler Brenan RHA (1825-1889) courtesy Whyte’s Sept 2003.

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