Mourne Park House, County Down, photograph by Robert French, (between ca. 1865-1914), Lawrence Photograph Collection, National Library of Ireland.
Bence-Jones, Mark. 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. 218. (Needham, Kilmorey, E/PB) In 1806, Robert Needham, 11th Viscount Kilmorey, was left the Mourne estate by William Nedham, whom he had never met, and who may or may not have been a distant kinsman of his. Soon afterwards, he built a house among the glorious oak and beechwoods of his newly-inherited demesne – which lies on the souther slopes of the Mourne Mountains – in lace of an earlier house. It was modest in scale; two storey, three bay, with Wyatt windows and a doorway with sidelights. Some time later, probably post 1820. a third storey was added, then, post 1859, a new two storey front was built onto the house; so that the new front rooms had higher ceilings than the rooms in the older part of the house at the back. The new front, of granite ashlar, was of three bays, like the original front; but with unusal paired rectangular windows, set in shallow recesses rising through both storeys with relieving arches above them. In the centre, the entrance door was treated as though it were simply another window, flanked on either side by windows of similar shape and size.
Towards the end of the 19th century, the 3rd Earl of Kilmorey added rectangular bows to this front; and around 1904, he built a single-storey wing at the back of the house containing a large room known as the Long Room, with a vaulted ceiling on timber supports.
Between 1919-21, the 4th Earl built a wing to the left of the front, containing various rooms including a new large drawing room and a top-lit entrance hall; the entrance being moved round to this side of the house. At the same time, the principal staircase was remodelled to fit in the new entrance.”
Bence-Jones, Mark. 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. 29.“(Higginson/IFR) A very attractive “gentleman’s cottage” of ca 1800 in a beautiful situation overlooking a lake; originally owned by William Beers. Two subsequent additions; sensitively restored and much improved by present owner, W/Cmdr J.S. Higginson. Two storeys, the upper storey being partly in the attic with dormer gables; projecting single-storey porch, the same height as the rest of the front, with large, elegant fan-lighted doorway. Battlemented projection at end; the upstairs end windows, which are pointed, with Georgian-Gothic astragals, were put in recently.
The library has a low ceiling, with columns which formerly graced Downhill Castle, on either side of alcove. Drawing room divided by arch, formed out of two rooms, with a simple marble chimneypiece at either end. Stairs with iron handrail leading up to large bedroom landing, with fanlighted window. The formal garden to the south of the house is equally impressive, with statuary and urns, laid out by present owner.”
Bence-Jones, Mark. 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. 97. “A good quality late-Georgian house of brilliant red brick, built 1805. Two storey over high basement; five bay front, central window flanked by two narrow windows above, fanlighted doorway flanked by two niches below. Circular staircase.”
Bence-Jones, Mark. 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. 281. “(Leycester/LG1952); Reeves/LGI1912; Murphy/IFR) A house overlooking the Lee estuary which was originally built towards mid-C18 by Daniel Vorster, a Dutchman who settled in Cork and “educated” many of the merchants of the city in “writing, arithmetic and the most regular method of book-keeping.” As well as building the house, orster laid out a garden “with fountains, statues and canals.” Vosterburg was subsequently rebuilt, so that it is now a house of late-Georgian appearance. Of two storyes over a basement and with a Victorian dormered attic in the roof. Five bay entrance front, wide central window above doorcase with semi-circular fanlight and coupled engaged Doric columns; fanlight with curved astragals. Garden front of two bays on either side of a central curved bow. Subsequently owned by the Leycester family; in 1st half of C19, the residence of W.M.Reeves; later, the residence of a branch of the Murphy family.”
Old Court, Douglas, Co Cork (not Old Court Castle also known as Kanturk Castle)
Bence-Jones, Mark. 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. 228. (Goold, Bt/PB; Glasgow/LG1863) A double bow-fronted Georgian house. Owned in recent years by a religious order.”
Bence-Jones, Mark. 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. 191. “(Murphy/IFR; Beamish/IFR; Gubbins/LG1937 supp; Mahony/IFR) A two storey house built 1801 by John Power. Three bay entrance front; Wyatt windows in outer bays; fanlighted doorway with Ionic columns. Garden front overlooking Lee estuary. Afterwards owned by James Roche, who added single-storey wings, one of them containing a ballroom, which in recent years was decorated in Louis Quinze style; the other originally containing a library. Afterwards owned by John Molony and then by William Ware; bought ca 1837 by J.J. Murphy, whose body was shipped back to Ireland inside an upright piano after his death in Italy 1851, because the Neopolitan sailers refused to carry his coffin, on the grounds that it would bring them bad luck. Lota Park was afterwards the home of Lt-Col N.L. Beamish, an officer in the Hanoverian Service and a Kinght of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, who died 1872. In the early years of the present century, it was the home of Joseph Gubbins, a well-known yachtsman. More recently, it was the home of Mrs Francis Mahony. Now a Cheshire Home.”
Lotabeg House, Tivoli, County Cork, sold in 2022 courtesy ERA Downey McCarthy
Bence-Jones, Mark. 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. 191. “”(Kellett, Bt/PB; Mahony/IFR) A square late-Georgian house overlooking Lee estuary built ca 1800 for Sir Richard Kellett [1761-1853], 1st Bt, to the design of the elder Abraham Hargrave. Impressive cantilevered staircase, Ionic triumphal arch at entrance to demesne by George Richard Pain. In 1837 the residence of D. Callaghan [Daniel Callaghan (1786–1849)]. Passed to the Mahony family later in C19.”
The Buildings of Ireland. Cork City and County. Frank Keohane. Yale University Press: New Haven and London. 2020.
p. 26. “The other notable late C18 architect in Cork, Abraham Hargrave, appears to have been engaged by Shanahan to help complete St Patrick’s Bridge after it was damaged by a flood in 1789. Hargrave was a relative, and possibly a pupil, of the noted architect and bridge designer Thomas Harrison of Chester. He settled in Cork and developed an extensive contracting business, building barracks at Cork and Fermoy and doing much work for John Anderson at the latter town. His houses include Dunkathel and Gortigrenane, Palladian in form with wings enclosing rear yards; the four-square Hoddersfield and Coolmore; and elegant but spare villas at Vernon Mount (Douglas) and Lotabeg (Tivoli). IN Cork city, his townhouses commonly have windows set in shallow arched recesses.”
John Galwey (d. 1793) was of Lota, County Cork. His daughter Jane married Richard Kellett 1st Bt.
Lota Beg House, Tivoli, Co. Cork sold in 2022 courtesy ERA Downey McCarthy
Sold: €850,000 Asking: €4,500,000
6 Bed
Lota Beg is a period residence on c.11.38 ha (c.28.12 acres) situated on an elevated site off the Lower Glanmire Road on the outskirts of Cork City. Based on the current Cork City Development Plan there are c.3 hectares of land within the city boundary zoned for Residential Development and which form part of Lot 2.
For sale in 3 lots as follows : Lot 1 :
Lota Beg House on c.7.13 ha (c.17.6 acres). AMV : €1M
Lot 2 :
Land c.4.25 ha (c.10.59 acres) of which c.3 ha (c.7.4 acres) are within the city boundary zoned for Residential Development in the 2015 Cork City Development Plan. AMV : €3.5M
Lot 3 :
The Entire AMV : €4.5M
Lota Beg House is located on and accessed from the Lower Glanmire Road on the outskirts of Cork City. It is approached by a sweeping drive that winds through the deciduous woodland that surrounds the property. Its elevated site offers views over the city and the river Lee. Lota Beg House comprises a detached, two storey over basement period residence built between 1780 and 1820.
The house is of significance as one of a group of houses in Tivoli associated with the Lota demesnes and whilst the house, gate lodge and entrance are all listed as being structures of ‘Regional Importance’, they are not listed as protected structures in the 2015 Cork City Development Plan.
The entrance to the property is a familiar sight to thousands of people but very few have ever passed beneath the iconic stone arch, decorated with a magnificent Irish Wolfhound. The elegant house, designed by Abraham Hargrave, is hidden from view but one of its most notable features is the large bow on the north facing entrance porch, behind which lies the house’s finest internal space, an immense circular domed entrance hallway, around which snakes a cantilevered timber staircase up to the first floor gallery.
Bearforest, Mallow, Co Cork – for sale April 2019, sold 900,000
Bence-Jones, Mark. 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. 34. “(De La Cour/LGI1958; Purdon Coote, dub Coote, Bt/PB; Moore, sub Digby, B/PB) A villa built in 1807-8 for Robert Delacour to the design of Richard Morrison, who intended it to display “his taste and talents as a villa architect” and “his capacity for designing and executing a residence that should combine simplicity and elegance with a convenience and extent of accommodation suitable for the purposes of a large family, or of affluent fortune, while it retained the modest character becoming the habitation of an unostentatious private gentleman.” Of two storeys; thee bay front, semi-circular porch with engaged fluted Doric columns, between Wyatt windows under relieving arches; four bay side elevation with semi-circular fanlighted conservatory; eaved roof on brakcet cornice. Compact, but spacious plan: oval hall, extending into the porch, with columns flanking the doorcases, as at Castlegar and Issercleran; central top-lit staircase hall; large, well proportioned drawing room and dinign room. All in all, the house lives up to Morrison’s intentions; though surprisingly, in an age which set a high store on vi9ews and prospects, he made the southern side of the house, where there is an attractive view to the Nagles Mountains, the back; so that it was largely blinded by the service wing. The house subsequently passed to the Purdon Coote family; it was burnt ca 1920 and afterwards rebuilt, without the conservatory and with an extra storey on the porch, which now has the effect of central curved bow. The Morrison interior decoration, which was naturally lost in the fire, was not reinstated. Bearforest was sold by the Purdon Cootes a few years ago to Mr C. A. and Hon Mrs Moore who have solved the problem of the house’s orientation by demolishing the original service wing and making a patio where it stood, and building a new service wing on the north side of the house. They have also refloored the hall in marble.”
Constructed 1807-08 for Robert Delacour to designs by Sir Richard Morrison. Inscribed on the entablature over the entrance ‘est ubi depellata somnos minus invida cura’ from Horace Epistle 1.10. A deceptively large house, with two storeys over a full basement.
House, furniture and contents destroyed in 1921/22. Rebuilt circa 1925 by Chillingworth & Levie with a second storey added to the curved entrance bow and without the conservatory.
The Buildings of Ireland. Cork City and County. Frank Keohane. Yale University Press: New Haven and London. 2020.
p. 32. The bulk of Cork’s not inconsiderable stock of country houses were built between 1790 and 1820, a period of unprecendented agricultural prosperity: incomes from estates increased by 100-150 %, and in some cases by as much as 300%. Most of these houses are generous rectangular blocks without architectural ambitions, with symmetrical facades of two or three storeys. It is only in their detail that they differ from their C18 forebears. Roughcast begins to give way to stucco, and the availability of larger slates allowed the pitch of roofs to be lowered, so that parapets designed to disguise steep roofs fell out of fashion, and by the 1820s deep bracketed eaves were popular. Windows became larger, and were often filled with sashes of astonishing delicacy. [p. 34] The Wyatt window, a wide tripartite type, could be used to emphasize the centre of a façade in a similar way to the C18 Venetian window, but was also commonly paired on each side of the entrance. Doorways, of stone or timber, were given fanlights rather than pediments, often to a tripartite pattern incorporating narrow side-lights. All in all, the repetition of design suggests a taste for well-tested conformity over modish experimentation.
There is generally little to differentiate glebe houses of the period from the smaller of these houses. A common and economical pattern was to place the entrance in the narrow side elevation to allow a pair of reception rooms to fill the view front. The origin of this plan is not known, but in 1788 the Rev. Daniel Beaufort inspected a glebe house being built at Midleton, describing it as ‘a very odd plan without a door in front.’
Larger Classical houses of this period are comparatively rare, many of course having been lost. Longueville (Mallow), Kilmoney Abbey (Carrigaline), Mount Leader (Millstreet) and Castle Park (Kanturk) all feature elegent cut-stone columnar porches. Gortshagh near Charleville, though modest in scale, is satisfyingly monumental, with a massive central stack, and a porch with pared-down Greek Doric columns in antis. A tour-de-force Greek Revival portico of sublime purity exists at Dromdihy at Killeagh, a house happily about to undergo rehabilitation after decades of ruination. Bearforest (Mallow) is a classic villa designed by Richard Morrison; the arrangement of Wyatt windows in shallow arched recesses and the central bow ringed with columns derives from the work of both James Wyat and John Soane. The finest house of the period is Fota, a mid-C18 house enlarged and remodelled in the 1820s by Richard and William Vitruvius Morrison, then the leading country house architects in Ireland. Within, they formed a spatially complex hallway with adjoining vestibules, to connect a sequence of opulent reception rooms decorated with their richest plasterwork. The sequence of lobbies and landings on the upper floors is no less thrilling.
Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house, built c. 1805 and rebuilt c. 1925, facing west, with central projecting bowed entrance bay to front elevation, three-bay side elevations, southern having gabled breakfront, five-bay two-storey over half-basement rear elevation, and with two-bay single-storey flat-roofed addition and further two-bay single-storey hipped-roofed garage extension to north elevation. Hipped slate roof with overhanging sheeted eaves, cast-iron rainwater goods and rendered chimneystacks. Rendered pediment and pitched slate roof to breakfront. Moulded render cornice to bow. Painted rendered walls with dressed limestone plinth and quoins. Dressed limestone stringcourse between floors of façade. Dressed limestone entablature to ground floor of bow comprising fluted engaged columns, architrave, frieze and cornice with attic course having circular recessed panels with carved surrounds flanking central rectangular recessed panel with lettering in relief. Square-headed openings with timber sliding sash windows throughout with dressed limestone sills. Six-over-six pane to first floor and to bow, panes of latter vertically arranged. Nine-over-nine pane to ground floor, windows of front elevation being tripartite and set in segmental-headed recessed panels with dressed limestone tympanums having carved circular panels with floral motifs, and lights separated by render pilasters with moulded decorative brackets. Triparite nine-over-nine pane window to north elevation set into segmental-headed recess with cut limestone details similar to ground floor windows of front elevation, but with render tympanum and cornice. North elevation also has evidence of being formerly five-bay. Square-headed window openings to basement with and one-over-one pane windows. Square-headed door opening to front elevation with timber panelled door, timber doorcase comprising pilasters with square-headed recessed panels and decorative caps, timber architrave and moulded cornice and margined overlight. Approached by curved flight of dressed limestone steps. Square-headed opening to breakfront with timber panelled door, flanked by timber fluted Ionic-style columns, with decorative architrave, ornate frieze and cornice. Flanking bays of south elevation have square-headed openings with fixed timber French doors approached by flights of dressed limestone steps.
Rebuilt in the 1920s, this large house forms part of a complex of related structures with the associated outbuildings, walled garden and entrance gates and lodge. Its regular and symmetrical façade is enhanced by the central full-height bow and its carved entablature, which is an unusual feature and, together with the breakfront, adds an air of elegance to the façade. The house retains early features such as the limestone steps and timber sliding sash windows. The window surrounds and doorcase to the south add artistic interest to the façade while the carved motto adds context.
Named after Richard Beare who held this land in the early 18th century, the house was built in 1807-1808 by Robert Delacour, a partner in the Delacour bank of Mallow. Townsend writes that it was designed by Richard Morrison. Delacour was living in the house in 1814 but had vacated it by 1837. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation it was occupied by John Hugh Bainbridge who held it from James Murphy. The buildings were valued at £70. Bence Jones records the Purdon Coote family as later owners. The house was burnt in June 1921 during the War of Independence when it was the residence of Maj. Charles Purdon Coote but was rebuilt.
Named in honour of local landowner Richard Beare, the house was built in 1807 for Mr Robert Delacour.
It was designed by Sir Richard Morrison, the architect behind some of Ireland’s most beautiful country houses, including Ballyfin in Co Laois, Ireland’s most exclusive hotel.
The beautiful bow front opens into an entrance hall floored in green marble. Past the curved staircase there’s a front sitting room with French doors onto a terrace.
On the other side of the hall, a cosy, book-lined study (compete with open fire) leads into the huge drawing room and elegant dining room (imagine the parties).
Loosely translated, the Latin inscription over the door of Bearforest House means ‘the place less distracted by envious care’.
And with a bit of updating, it could be your own personal getaway from life’s distractions or a brilliant base for any number of home businesses.
There are nine bedrooms in total and the five on the first floor are all exceptionally generous, with high ceilings, en-suites in each and sweeping views of trees, rolling fields and the Nagles Mountains.
The stable courtyard boasts a coach house, working stables and a staff apartment, while at the end of the driveway, the two-bedroom gate lodge offers yet more accommodation.
The grounds and gardens are picture perfect and the remains of the old Victorian walled gardens are just waiting for the right green fingers to bring it back to life.
Pollacton (originally Pollardstown, or Pollerton), Carlow, Co Carlow – A ruin, demolished 1970
Bence-Jones, Mark. 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. 232. “(Burton, sub Mainwaring-Burton/IFR; Denys, Bt/PB1959) A three storey late-Georgian house, said to have been designed 1803 by Richard Morrison for Sir Charles Burton, 2nd Bt; but more likely remodelled by Morrison at that date, having been built earlier. Entrance front with three bays on either side of a breakfront with one window flanked by small sidelihts. Single-storey portico of Tower of the Winds columns. Similar columns, fluted, recessed in the hall, which had a coved ceiling… Inherited by Grace Ellen, Lady Denys-Burton, (nee Burton) whose son, Sir Charles Denys, 4th and last Bt, left it to his nephew, Jasper Tubbs, who demolished it and is building a modern house in the Georgian style on the property.”
Pollacton, County Carlow, entrance hall 1970, photograph: David Davison. 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.
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. 35. A large somewhat severe house designed by Richard Morrison in 1803 for Sir Charles Burton. The interior however was very attractive nd contained plasterwork by James Talbot. Demolished 1970.
Pollacton gateway, County Carlow, courtesy of National Inventory.
Gateway, c.1820, comprising ashlar piers with ball finials having curved limestone walls. Replacement double and wicket iron gates, c.1995.
Record of Protected Structures:
Pollacton House Gateway (Rear),
Palatine Road,
Carlow
The entrance gates on the Palatine road date from the mid-18th century and consist of tall, limestone piers with basemoulds, cornices and large balls. The gates are flanked by quadrant walls of coursed-rubble limestone with pedestrian arches.
Pollacton gate lodge, County Carlow, courtesy of National Inventory.
Detached three-bay single-storey L-plan stone-built gate lodge, c.1870, with projecting porch and bow window.
Record of Protected Structures
A single-storey gate lodge with an L-plan, bow window and projecting porch. The walls are of limestone ashlar with channelled, raised coigns and the roof has natural slates. The windows are blocked up. The lodge probably dates from circa 1860.
Detached three-bay three-storey over basement house, c.1808, with round-headed door opening having Doric doorcase, gable ends and railings to open basement area. Interior retains original joinery, decorative cornices and an original chimney piece. Group of detached two-storey outbuildings to site.
Kyleballyhue House, County Carlow for sale 2023 courtesy John M Foley & Co.
Kyleballyhue is an estate in County Carlow and has an elevation of 134 metres. Kyleballyhue is situated northwest of Graiguenaspiddoge, southwest of Moyle.
John NOLAN, the husband of Maria, née WHELAN, died in DUBLIN (Leahy Terrace, SANDYMOUNT) on August 23rd, 1862, at the age of 63 years (born about 1799). He is buried together with both his parents in the family vault in the SLEATY Old graveyard (County LAOIS).
His father was John NOLAN, of KILBALLYHUE House, County CARLOW. John, his son, also of KILBALLYHUE, was Justice of Peace of County CARLOW at the time of his death. I have been told that after the death of John NOLAN, the J.P., his widow, Maria, née WHELAN, did sell the NOLAN estate (KILBALLYHUE Park). And did come back to DUBLIN where the WHELAN family was living. That I do know for sure.
The above Info was supplied by Claude-Régis POLLET (June 2020) who is a desendent of Whelan family.
Graveyard: Sleaty, Old Exact wording of epitaph: Beneath this memurium lies the mortal remains of John Nolan of Kilbaleyhue county Carlow Esq. a man possessed of many virtues Religious without Bigitory, Charitable without ostentation, humble in the midst of affluence, in him religion lost one of its best supporters the widow, a kind protector and the orphan another father. He closed a life full of good works on 7th September 1855 in the 87th of his age at his seat in Killballyhue This tribute is paid to His memory by a friend who knew him well Mrs Mary Nolan relict of the above named John Nolan Esq Departed this life the 18th April 1840 Also His son John Nolan J.P. Kilballyhue the 23rd Aug – 1862 Aged 63 years REQUIESCAT IN PACE Memorial Type: Chest tomb Source: https://historicgraves.com/sleaty-old/la-stod-0029/grave
Kyleballyhue House, County Carlow for sale 2023 courtesy John M Foley & Co.
Kyleballyhue House, County Carlow courtesy National Inventory.
Detached three-bay three-storey over basement house, c. 1808, with round-headed door opening having Doric doorcase, gable ends and railings to open basement area. Interior retains original joinery, decorative cornices and an original chimney piece. Group of detached two-storey outbuildings to site.
Detached single-bay former boiler house, c. 1805, with brick chimney flue. Truncated, c. 1990.
Record of protected structure: Boiler house:
The boiler house at the back of the yard is a free-standing structure with a two-bay, single-storey building of coursed-rubble granite with a carriage arch and a slated roof. The chimney-stack has a square-plan, granite base and brick, square-plan flue. It is said to date from 1805 and was slightly truncated in 1990.
This is a very fine square-plan yard with farm buildings round three sides and an entrance arch and the house on the fourth side. The buildings are of two storeys and built of coursed-rubble granite and with various openings including narrow, ventilation slits on the first floor. There is a brick-headed arched entrance to the yard and an arch opposite. This one of the finest farmyard complexes in the whole country and borders on ..(?)
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Kyleballyhue House, County Carlow for sale 2023 courtesy John M Foley & Co.
A tall, gable-ended, three-bay, three-storey house over a basement dating from 1808. It has rough-cast walls over a base-mould, a round-headed, granite doorcase with ionic columns, a well-detailed entablature, a radial fanlight and an original, panelled door. The sash windows are original and have six panes in each sash with the exception of the top floor which has three panes in each sash. Much of the glass is original, crown glass. The low-pitched roof has end stacks and natural slates. The area round the front of the house has a low wall and railings.
Kyleballyhue House, County Carlow for sale 2023 courtesy John M Foley & Co.
“A huge six-bed historic Georgian home in Carlow countryside on 2.5 acre site” 28th August 2023 by Niamh Kenny, Carlow Live.
Kyleballyhue House is situated in County Carlow on approximately 2.5 Acres.
The property is Georgian, constructed circa 1808.
The house is approached through a tree line avenue with a substantial stone court yard to the rear.
Situated on an elevated site close to Tinryland and facing East the property has beautiful views over County Carlow countryside towards the Wicklow Mountains.
The property has retained many of its original period features and presents a great opportunity for a would be purchaser to restore the property to its former glory.
An ideal private residence, the property also has immense scope for further accommodation or commercial/hospitality potential with a substantial range of cut stone outbuildings.
The detached house has six-bedrooms and three-bathrooms and has a floor area of approx. 400 m².
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Kyleballyhue House, Carlow on Circa 2.5 Acres A very fine Georgian Storey over basement property standing on its own grounds extending to circa 2.5 Acres, approached through a tree line avenue with substantial stone court yard to the rear.
Situated on an elevated site and facing East the property has beautiful views over fertile County Carlow
countryside towards the Wicklow Mountains. The setting is private setting yet just 5kms from the County town of Carlow. Whilst in need of modernization the property has retained many of its original period features and presents a great opportunity for a would be purchaser to restore the property to its former glory.
An ideal private residence, the property also has immense scope for further accommodation or commercial/hospitality potential with a substantial range of cut stone outbuildings. Description: A detached 3 bay over basement period house constructed (circa 1808) retaining many intact original features including a round headed door opening having a Doric doorcase, gable ends
and railings and open basement area. Some regional internal plasterwork, pitch pine floorboards and ornate fireplaces in the main reception rooms remain intact. To the rear of the property is a courtyard with substantial number of two storey detached outbuildings of granite stone underneath a slate roof.
Location: Located just off the N80 two minutes from the M9 motorway ( Junction 9) Carlow town 5kms Tullow town 8kms Ballon Village 6kms Bunclody 18kms Dublin city 89kms Accommodation Entrance Hallway: 3 x 3 with cornice and centre piece, door to Inner Halway. Inner Hallway: 5.1 x 3 with staircase and stairs to basement Drawing Room: 6 x 4.82 with feature white marble fireplace,
shutter windows, decorative cornicing Dining Room: 4.82 x 6 black marble fireplace with solid fuel stove, decorative cornicing, shutter windows Back Hallway: 3.2 x 2.1 with wc off Kitchen: 7 x 3.1 with quarry tiled floor, aga oil fired cooker Main Bathroom on half landing: 2.4 x 2.1 with bath, wc, whb & hot press First Floor: Landing: 8.4 x 3 Bedroom No.
1: 4.7 x 5.92 with cast iron fireplace Ensuite with shower, wc, whb, double aspect windows with fine views Bedroom No. 2: 4.8 x 6 with cornicing, shuttered windows, black marble fireplace, vanity unit Stairs to Second Floor Landing: 2.9 x 6.4 Bedroom No. 3: 4.9 x 2.8 with timber floor Bedroom No.
4: 4.9 x 3.1 with fireplace & timber floor Bedroom No. 5: 4.9 x 3.1 with marble fireplace & timber floor Bedroom No. 6: 4.9 x 2.7 with timber floor Basement (four rooms) Grounds: Approached by beech tree lined avenue. To left of main house is a garden/orchard area formerly a walled garden with the wall remainig intact. Courtyard – The substantial courtyard is positioined to the rear of the house comprises a magnificent three sided range of cut granite stone outbuildings with slate roof. It like the house retains much originality but also requires upgrading.
Subject to the necessary conscent(s) the house and yard could have possabilities for alternative uses. Machinery Shed Stabling 5 Coach houses with featured arch entrances, lofted storage area most recently used to house livestock Former living quarters now used as storage. Additional Information Pitch pined floors throughout the ground and first floor of the property Ground floor ceilings approx. 3.7m Oil fired central heating Well and septic tank provided for the property. Some additional land may be available, details on request. Solicitor with carriage of sale John M Foley & Co, Station Road, Bagenalstown, Co. Carlow.
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