1800s

Ballymoney Park, Kilbride, Co Wicklow 

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Ballymoney Park, Kilbride, Co Wicklow 

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. 291. “A three storey 5 bay house of late C18 appearance. Central lunette over Wyatt windows over fanlighted doorway. Neo-Classical plasterwork in frieze and niche of drawing room. In 1837 occupied by Rev M.J. Mayers, the then incumbent of Kilbride.” 

https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/16403108/ballymoney-house-ballymoney-ar-by-dunganstown-east-ed-kilbride-co-wicklow

Ballymoney House, BALLYMONEY (AR. BY.) DUNGANSTOWN EAST ED, Kilbride, County Wicklow 

Detached five-bay three storey house, built c.1800. To the south west there is an early 18th century wing. To the north side there is a modern conservatory while to the south-west there is a range of late 19th century outbuildings. The building is finished with roughcast render with stone dressings. The panelled front door is flanked by three-quarter Ionic pilasters and plain sidelights; these support a projecting stone cornice and an elliptical-headed radial fanlight. Window openings are mainly flat-headed with either six over six or three over three sash frames. Directly over the door there is a tripartite window and above this there is a semi-circular arched window with spider’s web frame. Chimneystacks are rendered with corbelled caps and clay pots. The house is set within large landscaped gardens. 

Appraisal 

This late Georgian house is delightfully located within a parkland setting. It is in original condition and is an important asset to the local heritage. The house has an early 18th century wing which was the original house, however since the impressive early 19th century front has been the main house for over two hundred years the writer’s have primarily described this as ‘early 19th century with early 18th century wing’. 

Ballycurry, Ashford, Co Wicklow

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Ballycurry, Ashford, Co Wicklow 

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. 20. “(Tottenham/IFR) A C18 house of the Boswell family, of two storeys and seven bays with a pedimented breakfronted centre, which passed to the Tottenhams with the marriage of Frances Boswell to Charles Tottenham, MP; who rebuilt the house ca 1808 to the design of Francis Johnston. Of two storeys, entrance front of 6 bays without pediment; single storey Grecian Doric portico with fluted columns and triglyph frieze. At one end of the front there is now a projecting wing added in the Victorian period. Garden front with 1 bay on either side of shallow curved bow. Hall with screen of fluted Grecian Doric columns and frieze of triglyphs and ox skulls. The bow-fronted drawing room, the dining room and the library all have typical early C19 plasterwork friezes. Pedimented bookcases in library.” 

https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/16401907/ballycurry-house-ballycurry-demesne-ashford-county-wicklow

Ballycurry House, BALLYCURRY DEMESNE, Ashford, County Wicklow 

Detached six-bay two-storey house, built 1807 to designs by Francis Johnston. The building is finished in render with some stone dressings. To the north side there is a later two-storey addition. The part glazed panelled double front doors have sidelights and a tetrastyle Doric portico. Window openings are flat-headed with six over six timber sash frames. The hipped roof is finished with natural slate and copper ridge. Chimneystacks are in ashlar stone and have boldly corbelled caps with clay pots. The house is set within a well wooded demesne. 

Appraisal 

A well preserved early 19th century house which has retained its original setting. The clean Georgian lines are somewhat marred by the later addition to the north side, however the house is still an important example of a small country house. 

http://tottenham.name/Places_Ballycurry.html

At the foot of Ballycurry Hill about 5 miles north of Wicklow, Ballycurry came into the family with the Boswell marriage in 1766. The original home of the Boswells, of which there are two charming pencil sketches, was probably built in the reign of Queen Anne. 

At the beginning of the 19th century it was replaced by a larger house – a solid, unpretentious, Georgian structure, which probably incorporated parts of the old building. A hundred years later Col. C. G. Tottenham added a block on the N.E. corner, and at the same time made a new front avenue and lodge – some say in order to bring the house within the radius of free delivery of telegrams. 

The former avenue (now the back avenue) opens on to the old coaching road from Rathdrum to Dublin, along which “Tottenham in his Boots” probably passed on his famous ride. 

The house has a big hall and a large drawing-room, dining-room, and library on the ground floor, besides several smaller rooms, some of which have been converted into kitchen and offices, to replace the remote caverns in the basement which previously served those purposes. 

Upstairs there are 10 bedrooms, but until about 1920 there were no bathrooms. 

It stands in a walled Deer Park containing many fine trees, and there is a beautiful view to the west up the Devil’s Glen, half of which belongs to the estate. Down the glen runs the VartryRiver, and on the opposite side was the old Synge property of Glanmore Castle. 

To the southwest rises Mt. Carrick (1280ft). The estate runs to some 1300 acres, of which about 600 are wooded. There is some good arable land and much fine timber. Far more attention is now being paid to both farming and forestry than was the case in the past. 

Ballycurry has been in the Tottenham family for over 200 years. When Charles took over the ownership of the property in 1957, he introduced new and, at that time, advanced management techniques and proceeded to utilise the estate�s commercial values with the view to securing its future in the Tottenham family. 

He initiated new and valuable foresty harvesting. Later with the help of his two sons Charles and Geoffry he managed it with the successful growth and implementation of forestry, livestockand fodder. 

In 1984, BBC television used the home to produce the film “Time after Time” by Molly Keane. 

https://www.independent.ie/regionals/wicklowpeople/news/new-book-examines-ashfords-big-houses-27825305.html

A new book documenting the ‘big houses’ in the Ashford area and the personalities who resided in them was published by a local historian at the weekend.’Ashford – A Journey Through Time’ was lovingly researched and written by Sheila Clarke. The book is described as a ‘history in which, by and large, great events are notable by their absence.’ 

A new book documenting the ‘big houses’ in the Ashford area and the personalities who resided in them was published by a local historian at the weekend. 

‘Ashford – A Journey Through Time’ was lovingly researched and written by Sheila Clarke. The book is described as a ‘history in which, by and large, great events are notable by their absence.’ 

Instead the author’s interest lies in the village inhabitants, living and dead, as human beings preoccupied with the day to day cares and joys of life rather than as actors in a national drama. 

The beautiful hardback book features the big houses at Ballinapark, Ballybla, Ballycurry, Ballyhenry, Broomfield, Castlegrange, Clermont, Clonmannon, Cronroe, Dunran, Glanmore, Inchinappa, Killaderrig, Killoughter, Kilmartin, Kiltimon, Mount Usher, Munduff and Rossanagh. 

It further looks at the establishments of Ashford House, Ashford Mart, Cullenmore Hotel, the Garda Station, Glen Hotel, Hunter’s Hotel and the Woodpecker Lounge. 

Sheila has delved into the past of each house to bring its history to the reader. There is information on the various owners and their backgrounds and more importantly their humanity. 

Class differences and likenesses are highlighted as is the social change which has taken place in Ashford over the last 100 years. The history is illustrated by many photographs. 

The book was launched by poet, Seamus Heaney, in the Bel Air Hotel in Ashford on Saturday night. In the book’s preface he said the book was a feat of scholarshop and a labour of love. ‘From now on, the book will be cherished by local residents, consulted by working scholars and retained as a memento by interested visitors,’ he said. 

The book is available in local shops and would make an ideal Christmas present for local people. 

Ballydavid, Woodstown, Co Waterford 

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Ballydavid, Woodstown, Co Waterford 

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. 

[supplement]

p. 290. “(Dawnay sub Downe, V/PB) A house of late-Georgian appearance, consisting of a two storey three bay centre joined by single-storey two bay links to two storey one bay wings extending back. Regency iron verandah along the whole centre block.”

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

Ballydavid House, Passage East, is given as the address of William Armstrong, JP, in the 1870s. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation, this house was held in fee by Francis O’Beirne and valued at over £50. In 1814 Leet refers to Balydavid as the seat of Michael Kennedy. The 1945 ITA survey noted it as the residence of Lady Armstrong but formerly associated with the Armstrong and Paul families. There is still an extant house at the site.  

https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/22901811/ballydavid-house-ballydavid-co-waterford

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Detached nine-bay single- and two-storey house, c.1800, on a Palladian plan retaining original aspect comprising three-bay two-storey main block with two-bay single-storey flanking recessed lateral wings, and single-bay two-storey lower projecting terminating pavilion blocks. Hipped slate roofs (pitched to wings) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on overhanging timber eaves. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, and 6/6 timber sash windows. Set back from road in own grounds with landscaped grounds to site. (ii) Gateway, c.1800, to east comprising pair of painted rendered piers with finials, wrought iron double gates, painted rendered curved flanking walls, and painted rendered terminating piers having rendered capping.

Appraisal

A well-composed substantial house, formally arranged on a Palladian plan, retaining most of its original form and fabric, and which forms an important element of the architectural heritage of County Waterford.

https://longwaytotipperary.ul.ie/armstrongs/captain-armstrong/p6a_10_19b/

Published June 17, 2014 at 526 × 400 in Captain Marcus Beresford Armstrong. 

Ballydavid House, County Waterford

Description: Black and white snapshot of Ballydavid House, Woodstown, County Waterford, birthplace of Captain M. B. Armstrong.
Date: 1913
Source: Armstrong Collection
Identifier: P6A/10, 19B

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1254911/sale-of-ballydavid-house/

Lissan Rectory, Cookstown, County Tyrone 

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Lissan Rectory, Cookstown, County Tyrone 

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. 188. “(Staples, Bt/PB) An Italianate villa by John Nash, the only one in Ireland’ built 1807 for the Rev. J.M.Staples, whose first cousin and near neighbour, William Stewart, MP, had commissioned Nash to design Killymoon Castle. It has a round tower, chamfered columns, surmounted by a veranda of graceful Regency ironwork; and derives from a rather grander Nash villa in England, Cronkhill in Shropshire.” 

Tinvane, Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary 

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Tinvane, Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary 

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.

Supplement 

p. 305. “(Briscoe/LG1886) A house of late-Georgian appearance, consisting of a tall and narrow three bay principal block of three storeys over a basement, the centre flanked by two three sided bows, with wings of one storey over basement which do not quite balance; that on the left having irregular fenestration, tht on the right having three large windows and containing a reception room. Broad flight of steps to entrance door. The home of Henry Briscoe, known as “the John Peel of Ireland,: of whom a contemporary said he was a great huntsman…. After Henry Briscoe’s death Tinvane was sold. The Briscoes also owned Bellinter, Co Meath, where three generations have continued the family’s great hunting tradition…” 

https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/22208505/cedarfield-house-tinvane-tipperary-south

Cedarfield House, TINVANE, Tipperary South 

Tinvane or Cedarfield House, County Tipperary, photograph courtesy of National Inventory.

Detached three-bay three-storey house over basement, built c.1800, with full-height canted bays, single-storey flanking wings, return and extensions to rear and adjoining outbuilding to northeast. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, rendered eaves course and coping, artificial slate roofs to wings. Painted ruled-and-lined rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with replacement timber casement windows having limestone sills and rendersurrounds. Square-headed door opening with moulded render surround to timber panelled door with cobweb fanlight and flight of sandstone steps. Adjoining outbuilding with pitched slate roof and smooth rendered walls, outbuilding to northeast with pitched slate roof and rubble sandstone walls. Extended and modernized gate lodge and cut limestone gate piers to front of site. 

Appraisal 

Attention to detailing is exhibited in ornate features such as the moulded eaves course and door surround with the fine fanlight adding a further element of artistic detailing. The towering form of the house with flanking wings forms an imposing structure while the long flight of steps to the front door adds to its grandeur. The associated outbuildings, gate lodge and entrance further contribute to the site. 

Tinvane or Cedarfield House, County Tipperary, photograph courtesy of National Inventory.

https://www.daft.ie/tipperary/houses-for-sale/carrick-on-suir/tinvane-house-carrick-on-suir-tipperary-1907702/

Tinvane House, County Tipperary, photograph courtesy of sale by Brophy Cusack.

A splendid Georgian country home enjoying a majestic elevated position overlooking the Lingaun river and presented in superb condition, benefiting from a comprehensive restoration in recent years. 
 
Built in 1710 by the Earl of Bessborough the house features all the charm and eloquence of Georgian design but with the benefit of a thorough restoration project having been undertaken between 2000 and 2007 taking particular care to preserve the history and heritage of this period property. In 1841 The Ordnance Survey Name Books described it as “handsomely situated…having plantations, gardens, orchard and ornamental grounds”.  
 
Currently positioned within some 24 acres the pleasure grounds seamlessly link from pleasant formal gardens surrounding the house to the wider more informal grounds that include some delightful specimen trees and shrubs and fertile pasture, there is also an added 8 acres available on the north side of the Lingaun river which can be sold at an additional cost.  
 
The main residence, accessed via a long tree-lined avenue, is a well-maintained, distinctive-looking twelve-bedroom period mansion – four storeys over basement – of some 9,400sqft (873m2). The rooms are big, bright and spacious and the house is in generally good order although some refurbishment will be needed in the basement. 
 
Tinvane House in previous years was operated as a successful B&B with six large family rooms all with private ensuites, reception room and two living rooms. Added to this there is a five bedroom family residence to the south wing of the property together with kitchen utility, sunroom and sitting room The north wing of the property provides a large function room, kitchen and toilets. There are many fantastic Georgian features throughout the house, including sash window, cornice ceilings, panelled doors with architraves, reclaimed pitch pine floors, marble and pine fire surrounds with decorative carvings & a pitch pine kitchen. There are two entrances to the property and tarmacadam roads throughout, also to the rear of the property there is a large barn (5,000sqft) which incorporates 4 stables, hay shed, tack room, cattle crush and 3 large storage areas. 
 
Property Dimensions & Details 
South Wing (Family residence) 
Entrance Hallway – 3.94 x 11.69 tiled floor & cloakroom 
Kitchen – 24.08 x 15.19 tiled floor, solid pitch pine kitchen units, granite worktops, island with breakfast bar, Belfast sink, pine radiator cover, Venetian blinds, gas cooker with brick surround and tiled splash back, recessed lighting, ceiling cover & American style fridge 
Sunroom – 13.54 x 15.49 tiled floor with underfloor heating, solid teak windows & doors, vaulted ceiling with cedar cladding, red brick interior wall finish 
Bathroom – 6.36 x 6.89 fully tiled, electric power shower, ceiling covering, roller blinds, Bloomsbury sink & toilet. 
Bedroom 1(double) – 12.72 x 14.68 solid pine floor, ceiling coving, Venetian blinds and TV point 
Bedroom 2(double) – 9.68 x 19.08 solid pine floor, fitted wardrobe, ceiling coving and TV point. 
Bedroom 3(double) – 3.16 x 9.40 solid pine floor, fitted wardrobe, ceiling coving, splayed window frames and curtains 
Ensuite – 2.61 x 9.14 fully tiled and power shower 
Bedroom 4 (double) – 20.36 x 10.87 solid pine floor, fitted wardrobe, ceiling coving, splayed window frames, Venetian blinds and curtains 
Ensuite – 6.73 x 5.42 fully tiled and power shower 
Bedroom 5 (Master, double) – 22.35 x 15.17 solid pine floor, ceiling coving 
Walk in wardrobe – 5.90 x 8.07 fully shelved (his & hers), Venetian blinds 
Ensuite – 5.85 x 7.00 fully tiled, power shower, ceiling coving, Venetian blinds, vanity press 
 
Guest House 
Sitting room – 25.63 x 13.43 Georgian style tiled floor, ceiling coving, marble fire place, original solid doors 
Utility – 5.27 x 12.20 porcelain tile floor, fully fitted solid maple units 
Ground floor entrance hallway – 22.96 x 7.92 ceiling coving, Georgian tiles  
Cloakroom – 10.79 x 6.46 tiled floor, ceiling coving 
Bedroom 6 (double) – 14.05x 13.25 Georgian tiles, bay window, ceiling coving 
First floor entrance hallway – 8.0 x 15.77 Carpet floor, original solid teak door 
Reception – 27.10 x 14.24 carpet floor, ceiling coving, marble fire place, bay window 
Sitting room – 14.24 x 26.78 solid pine floor, ceiling coving, marble fire place, Waterford crystal wall lights 
Bathroom – 11.80 x 6.80 half wall Georgian wall tiles, carpet floor 
Linen room – 13.56 x 6.64 fully shelved  
Bedroom 7 (double) – 14.17 x 9.62 carpet floor, recessed lights, ceiling coving 
Ensuite 13.63 x 6.75 fully tiled 
Bedroom 8 (family) – 14.81 x 10.26 carpet floor, fitted curtains, bay window, ceiling coving 
Ensuite – 4.79 x 7.97 fully tiled, power shower 
Bedroom 9 (family) – 14.25 x 13.02 carpet floor, ceiling coving 
Ensuite – 8.51 x 4.80 fully tiled, power shower 
Bedroom 10 (double) – 8.66 x 12.01 carpet floor, recessed lights, ceiling coving 
Ensuite – 5.68 x 5.20 fully tiled, power shower 
Bedroom 11 (family) – 25.53 x 14.31 carpet floor, ceiling coving, bay window 
Ensuite – 10.50 x 8.03 fully tiled, power shower 
Bedroom 12 (family) – 20.60 x 14.12 carpet floor, ceiling coving, bay window 
Ensuite – 6.04 x 14.12 fully tiled, bath & shower 
 
North wing 
Ground floor function room – 31.51 x 21.61 unfinished 
Entrance hallway – 24.22 x 7.20 unfinished 
Male toilets – 11.67 x 9.40 unfinished 
Female toilets – 11.67 x 9.40 unfinished 
First floor function room – 19.67 x 31.89 pitch pine floor, 13ft ceilings, ceiling coving, marble fire place, gas fire, Waterford crystal chandelier and wall lights 
B&B Kitchen – 16.90 x 24.62 laminate floor, fitted units 
 
Tinvane House is a short walk from Carrick on Suir Town centre, Waterford city & airport 21km. Access to the M9 Waterford-Dublin motorway is a 15-minute drive from the house. 
 
There is mains electricity connected to the property and also a telephone line and broadband available. Foul drainage is treated in a private septic tank system plus two gas central heating boilers supplied by mains gas and main water. 
 
Solicitor with sale conveyance Michael O Grady, MW Keller & Sons Solicitors, 8 Gladstone Street, Waterford City, Tel: (051) 877 029 
For Sale Freehold by Private Treaty 
 
For further information or to request a viewing please contact Brophy Cusack on 051 511333.  

Rathurles House, Co Tipperary

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Rathurles House, Nenagh, Co Tipperary

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. 240. (Brereton/IFR) A two storey Georgian house, six bay front with pedimented and fanlighted doorway flanked by two narrow windows. Windows with external shutters.” 

Rathurles House, County Tipperary, courtesy Mark Bence-Jones.

https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/22402107/rathurles-house-rathurles-tipperary-north

Rathurles House, County Tipperary, courtesy National Inventory.

Detached six-bay two-storey over half basement house, built c. 1800, with three-bay gable elevations. Hipped slate roof having rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls to upper storeys, roughly dressed limestone walls, moulded limestone eaves course, basement string course and having round-headed alcoves to gables. Square-headed openings with timber sash six-over-six pane windows to first floor, timber casement to ground, and replacement timber with brick voussoirs to basement, all with cut stone sills. Inserted early eighteenth-century carved limestone Gibbsian doorcase, flanked by sidelights with replacement windows and having replacement glazed timber door with lintel and cobweb fanlight above, surmounted by open-bed pediment supported on consoles. Flight of limestone steps leading to door. Ruins of earlier castle to site. 

Appraisal 

The form and scale of this house are enhanced by the retention of features such as timber sash and casement windows and roof slates. The diminishing windows and well-carved Gibbsian doorway are typical of Georgian-style architecture. 

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

Rathurles was the home of the Brereton family in the 19th century. Occupied by John Brereton in 1814 and T. Brereton in 1837. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey Name Books refer to it as “a modern building”. Thomas Brereton was still resident at the time of Griffith’s Valuation holding the property valued at £27.15 shillings from Patrick Kernan. Home of Hugh Finch in the 1870s. This house is still extant and occupied.   

Cooleville, Clogheen, Co Tipperary 

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Cooleville, Clogheen, Co Tipperary 

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. 90. “(Grubb/IFR; Sackville-West, Sackville, B/PB) A pleasant early c19 house of two storeys over a basement and three bays, with a pillared porch and a two storey service wing; built by one of the Grubb family who owned the mill, the ruin of which stands beside the avenue and now, hung with creepers, forms a feature of the garden. From 1956 until his death 1965, the home of Edward Sackville-West, 5th Lord Sackville, the author and music critic, who decorated the house in a delightful Victorian manner as a background to his noteable collection of modern pictures. The drawing room was hung with a maroon-coloured flowered paper; the library with a paper of Prussian blue, which set off the orange pine bookcases and the warm colours of a Graham Sutherland landscape over the fireplace. The library opens into a Gothic conservatory which Lord Sackville added ca 1963, to the design of Mr Donal O’Neill Flanagan.” 

https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/22125003/coolville-house-lower-main-street-off-clogheen-market-clogheen-tipperary-south

Detached three-bay two-storey over half-basement country house, built c. 1805, with three-bay three-storey extension to north, c. 1885, single- and two-storey extensions to north and bowed conservatory added 1963 to south. Hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with timber sash windows, three-over-six pane to first floor, six-over-six to ground of main block and upper floors of north block. Round-headed timber sash window to south. Flat ogee-headed openings to conservatory with decorative twelve-over-twelve pane timber sash windows and glazed double doors with decorative overlight, accessed by flight of steps. Round-headed carved limestone main door opening with timber panelled door flanked by carved stone pilasters, with decorative sidelights, timber pilasters and cobweb fanlight. Accessed by flight of limestone steps. Dressed limestone pier with limestone capping and plinths and cast-iron gate to site. 

Appraisal 

This early nineteenth-century country house retains notable features such as the timber sash windows. It is the focal structure in a group of related buildings including a gate lodge, mill and courtyard, all built by the Grubb family. Skilled craftsmanship is exhibited in the decorative doorcase and the fine entrance gateway. It is enhanced by the Gothic Revival style conservatory designed by Donal O’Neil-Flanagan which was commissioned by Mr. Edward Sackville-West, the fifth Lord Sackville, author and music critic. 

https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/22125005/coolville-house-lower-main-street-off-clogheen-market-clogheen-tipperary-south

Coach yard complex, built c. 1805, comprising two ranges of multiple-bay two-storey stables and coach houses to south and west. South range multi-phase. Two-phase L-plan two- and three-storey house to east with rear extension, having half-hipped, gabled and catslide slate roofs with part-dressed stone eaves course and two-bay two-storey house to west with pitched slate roof, flanking entrance comprising carriage arch with pedestrian entrance. Stables have pitched artificial slate roofs, with dressed stone eaves course and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble sandstone walls. Square-headed openings with replacement timber shutters, windows and doors. Segmental- and elliptical carriage arches with sandstone voussoirs and replacement timber double doors. Dwellings have rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods, rubble sandstone walls and square-headed openings with replacement timber windows and doors. Elliptical-headed entrance carriage arch with cut stone voussoirs, impost course, carved keystone and rubble walls with capping. Square-headed pedestrian entrance having cut stone voussoirs and dropped keystone. Replacement wrought-iron gates. 

Appraisal 

This coach yard forms part of an interesting demesne group with the nearby Coolville House and the mill complex, both also built by the Grubb family. The outbuildings form an architecturally-pleasing enclosed space with their regular roofline and closed corners. Interest is added by the dwellings to the north with their varied roofs and the finely-carved entrance arch. It has been restored and is still in use. 

Belle Isle, Lorrha, Co Tipperary

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Belle Isle, Lorrha, Co Tipperary

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. 38. “(Yelverton, Avonmore, V/PB 1910) A C18 house of two storeys with an attic. Pedimented front and ends, each pediment having a lunette window. The seat of a branch of the Yelverton family; passed through marriage to the O’Keefe family, and then back to another branch of the Yelvertons through the marriag of Cecilia O’Keefe to third Viscount Avonmore.” 

https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/22400302/belle-isle-lehinch-tipperary-north

Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1800, having earlier five-bay two-storey with attic over basement block of c. 1790 to rear with pedimented three-bay breakfront. Single-storey over basement round bay to front and canted bay to south gable, of rear block. Projecting porch with hipped slated roof to front of entrance block. Slate roofs, pitched to rear block and hipped to front, with rendered chimneystacks to rear block. Rendered walls with render quoins and lined-and-ruled render walls to basement storey below limestone string course and with moulded stringcourse and cornice to round and canted bays. Square-headed window openings with round-headed to ground floor front and porch of entrance block, square-headed elsewhere. Lunette windows to pediment and upper gables of rear block. Timber sash windows to first floor and basement, with bipartite and tripartite casements elsewhere, all with limestone sills. Glazed panelled timber double door in recessed round-headed opening to entrance block. Lofted single-storey outbuildings to north having rendered walls. Quadrant gateway with roughcast walls and cast-iron gates with vehicular and pedestrian gateways with cut stone copings, piers to vehicular entrance and block-and-start surrounds to pedestrian gates. 

Appraisal Belle Isle is an interesting house which appears to be of late-eighteenth century origin, extended and altered during the nineteenth century. As a result the house displays an interesting variety of doors and windows, some of which may date to the early nineteenth century and retain original glazing. The house is located on an elevated site overlooking the River Shannon and Portumna Bridge and is clearly visible from the Galway side of the river. Although not in use the roofs are intact and have helped protect the interior from the elements. However, long-term disuse has caused serious deterioration in the outbuildings and if continued will put the house itself at serious risk. 

Ballycarron House, Golden, Co Tipperary 

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Ballycarron House, Golden, Co Tipperary 

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. 19. “(Butler/IFR) A two storey five bay Georgian house. One bay pedimented breakfront; round-headed window above fanlighted doorway. Interior fanlight at back of hall. Handsome entrance gates, with pedimented and rusticated wickets. Gothic lodge facing.” 

https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/22206808/ballycarron-house-ballycarron-tipperary-south

Detached five-bay two-storey over half-basement country house, built c.1800, having slight breakfront to entrance bay, with interior chapel and having two-bay two-storey addition to west and range of outbuildings and walled garden to rear. Hipped slate roof and rendered walls with square-headed timber sliding sash windows, one-over-one pane except for three-over-six pane to basement. Round-headed replacement timber panelled double-leaf door, and fanlight. 

Appraisal 

This is a fine country house standing in its own parkland. It retains timber sash windows. The associated outbuildings and walled garden add significantly to the setting of the house. The impressive gateway at the public road, at the end of a long avenue, are a significant feature in the local landscape.

The Peerage website tells us that Thomas Butler (d. 1917) He held the office of Justice of the Peace (J.P.) for County Tipperary. He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant (D.L.) of County Tipperary. He held the office of High Sheriff of County Tipperary in 1880. He suceeded his eldest brother John in the estates but eventually sold the tenanted land to its occupiers (under the provisions of the ‘Wyndham’ Land Act) and bequeathed both the proceeds and Ballycarron House itself to the Church.

Archerstown, Thurles, Co Tipperary 

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Archerstown, Thurles, Co Tipperary  – ruin 

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. 7. “(Langley/IFR) A plain two storey three bay high-roofed Georgian house. Wing with Wyatt windows.”

and supplement: 

“The house incorporates parts of the medieval castle of the Archer family. A section of the castle bawn wall is incorporated in the wall of a small deer park, which still contains deer believed to be descended from the deer that were here in the Archer’s time.” 

https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/22404110/archerstown-house-archerstown-tipperary-north

Detached three-bay two-storey with attic house, built c. 1800, with lower two-storey slightly advanced single-bay two-storey addition to east end of front elevation and later lean-to two-storey extension to rear. Incorporating fabric of earlier structure. Pitched slate roof having rendered chimneystacks, and having flat roof to addition. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed timber sash windows, tripartite to ground floor and addition, six-over-six pane to first floor of main block, nine-over-nine pane to ground and to addition, with stone sills. Gabled porch addition to front. Garden to front, with wrought-iron railings. Rendered outbuildings to east with pitched and lean-to slate roofs. Ruined medieval castle to site. 

Appraisal 

The irregular fenestration is an unusual and notable feature of this house. Georgian architecture usually adheres to strict rules of symmetry and proportion and the variety in the placement and form of the openings is probably due to the incorporation of an earlier building. The site of the house retains interesting outbuildings and archaeological features which contribute to the continuity and setting of the house. 

The Tipperary Gentry. Volume 1. By William Hayes and Art Kavanagh. Published by Irish Family Names, c/o Eneclann, Unit 1, The Trinity Enterprise Centre, Pearse St, Dublin 2, 11 Emerald Cottages, Grand Canal St, Dublin 4 and Market Square, Bunclody, Co Wexford, Ireland. 2003. 

Langley of Coalbrook, Brittas Castle and Archerstown 

p. 121. The third main branch of the Langleys, the Langleys of Archerstown, was founded by Thomas, brother of Henry who founded the Brittas branch. Thomas acquired the Archerstown  [122] property in the parish of Thurles, and in 1780 married Catherine, daughter of John Nicholson, who was renting Turtulla House, now the clubhouse of Thurles golf club. Archtertown was formerly the property of the Archer family, who were dispossessed in the Cromwellian times. They resided in a tower-house type of castle which had a bawn attached and a water mill nearby. By 1654 the castle was “out of repair” and apparently never used afterwards as a residence. The former status of the Archer family can be gauged from the finely sculpted table tomb in St Mary’s churchyard in Thurles. 

The Archerstown Langleys built a modest two storey Georgian house abutting the old bawn walls of the castle, a section of which survives, looking over the yard. They also built a deer park, the high walls of which still remain. The Christian name Henry was favoured also by this branch of the Langleys. Thomas’s eldest son and successor was so named, and he was a captain of the Tipperary yeomenry, which was very active in the Thurles area in 1798. He had a family of eight children, five who died young, including his eldest son Thomas. He was succeeded by his second son Henry (1817-1899), who was a magistrate and who married Catherine Maria, daughter of Dr John Toler, of Dublin.  

His eldest son, Herny Oliver, an army officer and JP, who succeeded to Archerstown, married Ethel Maud, daughter of John Max of Maxfort, thurles. On his death in 1927 his only son Henry Richard (Harry) succeeded. He became a veterinary surgeon, and married Sheila Hinds, from Canterbury, New Zealand. They had two children, Oliver Henry, who succeeded and also became a vet, and Ann Catherine, who married Peter William Walsh-Kemmis of Garrans, Stradbally. Oliver died a few years ago and his widow Diana and family manage the farm.