1750s

Abbeyfield House, Co Clare 

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Abbeyfield House, Co Clare 

Not in Bence-Jones 

https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/20000137/abbeyfield-house-county-clare

Detached three-bay three-storey house, built c. 1750, having three-storey wings and connecting bay to further three-storey section, all to rear. Salient two-story wing to right, c. 1820. Two-storey extension, c. 1900 to rear. Pitched slate roof with red brick stacks to gables. Pitched slate roofs to rear sections. Hipped slate roof to salient wing. Roughcast rendered walls with eaves cornice. Rendered walls to salient wing. Roughly coursed rubble stone walls to rear with some roughcast render and lime wash in places. Shouldered architrave with scroll keystone surmounted by pediment supported by consoles to front door. Timber sliding sash windows. Set on bend of the river. Terminates the vista of Abbey Street to the north. Large stable block close to river bank, possibly suggesting former military use. 

Abbeyfield House, Co Clare courtesy National Inventory.
Abbeyfield House, Co Clare courtesy National Inventory.
Abbeyfield House, Co Clare courtesy National Inventory.
Abbeyfield House, Co Clare courtesy National Inventory.
In need of TLC

The limestone doorcase of Abbeyfield House, Ennis, County Clare. Believed to date from c.1750, in the early 19th century the building was home to Matilda Crowe with whom Thomas ‘Honest Tom’ Steele, the friend and supporter of Daniel O’Connell, was passionately in love. He would sit on a rock on the other side of the river Fergus and gaze at Abbeyfield House in the hope of catching a glimpse of Miss Steele but to no avail: she ignored his overtures. Today the house is a police station and desperately in need of some of the love once lavished on its former chatelaine. 

Awbawn House, Aghabane, Co Cavan 

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Awbawn House, Aghabane, Co Cavan 

not in Bence-Jones 

https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/40401902/awbawn-house-aghabane-co-cavan

Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house, built c.1750, with gabled breakfront and three-storey semi-circular bow to centre of rear façade. Two-storey wing to south-west, three-bay single-storey over basement service block to north-east, and recent single-storey entrance porch addition. Recent slate roof with projecting eaves, bargeboards, dormers to rear, replacement chimney stacks, and uPVC rainwater goods. Flat parapet roof to porch. Rubble stone walls with render removed, cut stone quoins and window surrounds, red-brick surround to gable window with segmental arch. Relieving arch above entrance and to ground-floor openings flanking rear bow, string course below rear ground-floor openings. Replacement timber doors and sash windows with stone sills. Complex of outbuildings to north-west. Multiple-bay two-storey outbuildings with slate roofs, rubble stone and roughcast rendered walls with red-brick dressings to windows and segmental-arched openings. Some surviving timber windows and louvres. Cut-stone piers to courtyard entrance. Remains of walled garden to south of outbuildings. Gate lodge to south-west extensively renovated and no longer connected by drive to house, lodge to north concealed by vegetation and also no longer connected by drive, remains of gates visible from road.  

Appraisal 

A substantially rebuilt house retaining a sense of its eighteenth century form due to the survival of the external walls. The remaining bow to the rear facade is a notable feature characteristic of mid eighteenth-century Irish houses. The symmetry of the façades has been maintained and despite the historically incorrect form of the roof, the character and proportions of the original house remain apparent, enhanced by cut-sandstone details and reinstated sash windows. The outbuildings retain their original form and character with a variety of window, door and carriage-arch openings. With the parkland, walled garden and former lodge, these ancillary buildings provide context to the site and insight into the resources required to maintain a middle-sized country house during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The complex adds to the landscape and architectural character of its setting. 

Annaghlee, Cootehill, Co Cavan – gone 

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Annaghlee, Cootehill, Co Cavan – gone 

Annaghlee, County Cavan, entrance front c. 1955. Photograph: Maurice Craig. Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland by The Knight of Glin, David J. Griffin and Nicholas K. Robinson, published by The Irish Architectural Archive and The Irish Georgian Society, 1988.

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 distinguished mid C-18 red-brick house attributed to Richard Castle…. In 1814, the residence of Michael Murphy. Now almost completely destroyed.” 

Not in National inventory 

Paddy Rossmore. Photographs. Edited by Robert O’Byrne. The Lilliput Press, Dublin 7, 2019. 

“Since being photographed by Paddy, Annaghlee has disappeared despite being a charmging and entirely manageable-sized house. It is thought to have been built c. 1750, its design tentatively attributed by the Knight of Glin (in the Jan-March 1964 Bulletin of the Irish Georgian Society) to Richard Castle. Like a number of other houses from the same period in this part of the country, red brick was used for its construction…. Little seems to be known about its history...” 

Listed in Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland by The Knight of Glin, David J. Griffin and Nicholas K. Robinson, published by The Irish Architectural Archive and The Irish Georgian Society, 1988.

p. 39. A very attractive and interesting small house with a good interior attributed to Richard Castle built c. 1750 for Robert Wills. Now almost completely ruined.

Janeville House (or Ballybrommell House), Co Carlow 

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Janeville House, janeville or Kilgarron (or Ballybrommell House), Co Carlow 

Not in Bence-Jones 

https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/10301237/janeville-house-janeville-or-kilgarron-co-carlow

Detached five-bay two-storey farmhouse with dormer attic, c. 1750, with door opening having lugged granite doorcase, sidelights, Venetian window to central bay and gable ends. Refenestrated and extended to rear with double-pitched and lean-to roofs. Interior retains original joinery including open-well staircase. 

http://www.igp-web.com/Carlow/Janeville_House.htm 

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Record of Protected Structures: 

Janeville, Fennagh. Townland: Janeville or Kilgarron. 

A mid-18th century, gable-ended house with a façade of five bays and two storeys, a lugged, granite doorcase with a finely carved architrave and sidelights. Over the doorcase is a plain, Venetian window. The ground-floor windows were lengthened in the early 19th century and all the windows have been replacement glazing-bars. There is a string-course over the ground floor and a granite cornice under the high-pitched, slated roof. The house was extended at the rear with a further, pitched roof and a lean-to roof.  

Bella Vista, Athy Road, County Carlow 

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Bella Vista, Athy Road, Carlow 

Not in Bence-Jones. 

Nothing on igp website 

Record of protected structures: 

Bella Vista, Athy Road, Carlow. Townland: Newgarden. 

A very interesting, T-plan house of circa 1750 extended about 1790. It has a five-bay, two-storey façade with lime-rendered walls and a round-headed, block and start doorcase, small windows with raised and fielded panel shutters inside, a high-pitched roof ( with asbestos slates) and end stacks. The house was extended by a single bay of two storeys at either end. These bays have hipped roofs. The return is also said to date from circa 1790 and is gable ended. The windows have shallow reveals and late nineteenth century sashes but retain their granite, mid-18th century moulded sills which are a rarity. The house is said to be of brick though the walls are of a thickness that would suggest rubble stone.  

https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/10300202/bella-vista-newgarden-co-carlow

Detached five-bay two-storey farmhouse, c. 1790, with round-headed door opening having rusticated doorcase. Extended to sides comprising single-bay lower end bays with hipped roofs. 

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The Peerage: Thomas William Nassau Greene was born on 9 January 1844.1 He was the son of Henry Greene and Lydia Philips.2 He married Lucy Anne Day, daughter of George Day, on 20 April 1872.1 He died in 1923, without issue.1  
     He was registered as a Licentiate, Royal College of Physicians, Ireland (L.R.C.P.I.) in 1862.1 He lived at Bella Vista, County Carlow, Ireland.1 He was registered as a Licentiate, Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh (L.R.C.P.E.) in 1865.1 He was a physician at British Hospital, Montevideo, Uruguay.1