Cranmore House, Ballinrobe, Co Mayo
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. 294. “(Knox, of Creagh/LGI1912) A symmetrical Italianate house built 1832 by Col Charles Knox; two storey five bay, 1 bay pedimented breakfront, triple window over balustraded Doric portico. Eaved roof on bracket cornice. Bought early C20 by a branch of the Dalys of Daly’s Grove, who later owned Renville Hall and Roseville. Demolished ca 1945.”
https://archiseek.com/2010/1838-cranmore-house-ballinrobe-co-mayo
1838 – Cranmore House, Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo
Built in 1838 by Alexander Glendenning Lambert, who was an agent for the Knox family, and had connections with the Glendenning Banking Family. The roof was removed in the 1950s to avoid taxes since when it has fallen into disrepair. It is now a ruin.
In Blake, Tarquin. Abandoned Mansions of Ireland II: More Portraits of Forgotten Stately Homes. Collins Press, Cork, 2012.
On the gates of Cranmore House in Ballinrobe, County Mayo hangs a planning application notice which proposes the construction here of a three-storey retail and residential block, a second three-storey block to be used as an old persons’ home, seven houses, a terrace featuring that strange new form of accommodation, the ‘townhouse’ and, adjacent to the existing structure, a new 46-bedroom hotel with the inevitable function rooms, bars, gym and swimming pool. Cranmore House was built in 1838 by Alexander Clendenning Lambert, agent for the Knox family to whom the property subsequently reverted. They remained in occupation until the 1920s after which the house passed through a couple of hands before being unroofed in the 1950s, in which condition it remains to the present. The predominantly greenfield nature of site makes it attractive to developers, although the proposal seems both unfortunate and unnecessary when so much of Ballinrobe immediately outside the gates could do with refurbishment, including many existing ‘townhouses.’
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