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. 237. “A two storey early C19 villa with an eaved roof. Three bay front; central Wyatt window above porch with pilasters and fanlighted doorway. Ground floor windows set in arched recesses. In 1837, the residence of Avary Jordan.”
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820, with slightly advanced end bays flanking entrance porch, two-bay side elevations, lower three-bay two-storey wing to rear and recent glazed porch to west. Hipped slate roof with overhanging sheeted eaves, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods held in place by decorative wrought-iron brackets. Rendered coping to entrance porch. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks to wing. Painted smooth rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with timber sliding sash six-over-six pane windows to ground and first floor, those to ground floor set in elliptical-arched recesses. First floor of central bay has highly ornate square-headed surround to tripartite window opening, comprising panelled pilasters surmounted by console brackets and moulded panelled entablature with scalloped detailing to underside of eaves and to window heads. Porch comprises paired render pilasters to front corners with moulded capitals, entablature and impost course. Round-headed window to front wall and door openings to sides, with ornate cobweb fanlights over openings, having fixed twenty-pane window and twelve-pane half-glazed doors. Cut limestone steps and round-profile moulded capped piers with cast-iron railings flanking each side of porch. Multiple-bay two-storey outbuildings to north-west of site having pitched slate roof and roughcast rendered walls with square-headed openings, some with timber louvre fittings. Elliptical-arched gateway surmounted by cut-stone bellcote to yard. Quadrant entrance gates at road comprise vehicular entrance flanked by pedestrian entrances. Ashlar limestone piers with moulded caps and plinths to inner pairs of piers and outer terminating piers, with inner pairs of piers having string course, fluting and floral motifs to centre piers. Wrought-iron spearhead railings and double-leaf and single-leaf gates. Appraisal A pleasing middle-sized house of balanced Georgian proportions, existing largely in its early form and retaining much of its original fabric. This house is elevated above other typical contemporary country houses by the undulating projections and recesses of the façade and the later Victorian ornate features including the elaborate entrance porch, theatrical tripartite window, all of which serve to enliven the underlying regular classical form. A sense of grandeur is articulated in the execution of the decorative detailing with fine craftsmanship evident in the timber carving of the tripartite window surround, in the ironwork detailing of the cobweb fanlights and in the cut-stone bellcote and carved limestone entrance piers. The house, its yard and entrance piers form and attractive and interesting group on a slightly elevated site in the landscape.
Lewis records Avary Jordan as the proprietor of Race-Course Lodge in 1837. The house was valued at £35 in the mid 19th century, occupied by Avary Jordan and held from the Cashel Commissioners. Mrs Jordan of Racecourse owned 3 acres in the 1870s. This house, located just south of the town of Cashel, still survives as a fine country residence.
Springfield House, County Waterford for sale 2023, photograph courtesy of Halley Grace.
Springfield House, County Waterford for sale 2023, photograph courtesy of Halley Grace.Springfield House, County Waterford for sale 2023, photograph courtesy of Halley Grace.
Springfield House Coolroe Portlaw Co. Waterford X91 NP99
A distinguished property consisting of a Georgian residence on c. 12 acres of quality land zoned residential.
Springfield is a distinguished property consisting of a Georgian residence on C.12 acres of quality land. The imposing two storey house occupies a central elevated site, set back from the road in own grounds with stoned access surrounding the residence. Springfield property is set in pasture and woodland overlooking lawn areas with magnificent rhododendron and azalea areas.
Springfield House and accompanying lands comes to the market for sale in two lots.
Lot 1: Springfield House in Circa. 9 Acres. Lot 2: Springfield House & Circa. 12 Acres of Residentially Zoned Land in its entirety.
Pricing Upon Application
The residence was constructed by the Malcolmsons who were an Irish Quaker family active in many business ventures of the 19th Century. Features of the residence include its large entrance hall, with fine cornices and architraves throughout the reception areas. Retained original features include generous ceiling height, coving, roses, 6×6 timber frame sash windows, timber flooring.
The house retains the qualities and character of the Georgian era and is surrounded by many trees and attractive shrubs. It is approached by a short avenue to a gravelled forecourt at the front. The gate lodge at the entrance, and outbuildings, stores, barn/lean-to grouped to the rear all have potential for redevelopment.
Springfield House enjoys an abundance of privacy, with spacious living accommodation laid out in 2 storeys over basement. The residence consists of 3 reception rooms, dining room, kitchen/breakfast area, utility/laundry room, study, 6 bedrooms, 2 ensuite bathrooms, 1 separate family bathroom, a side entrance lobby with shower/toilet room.
Springfield House is a Protected Structure of County Waterford. The land is zoned Residential in Waterford CCC Development Plan 2022-2028.
The property is conveniently located only 20km from Waterford City.
i) Detached three-bay two-storey Regency-style house, c.1820, retaining original fenestration with diastyle in antis Doric portico to centre. Extended, c.1970, comprising single-bay single-storey end bay to north-east. Reroofed, c.1995. Hipped roof with replacement artificial slate, c.1995, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods, c.1995, on overhanging timber eaves. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, and 6/6 timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening behind cut-stone diastyle in antis Doric portico having corresponding pilasters, frieze, moulded cornice, and shallow blocking course. Glazed timber panelled door with sidelights. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds with gravel forecourt, and landscaped grounds to site. (ii) Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, c.1820, to south-west. Now disused. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on overhanging timber eaves. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings in shallow segmental-headed recessed with stone sills, and louvered timber shutter fittings. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door. (iii) Gateway, c.1820, to south-west comprising pair of ashlar piers with capping, wrought iron double gates, and broken coursed squared rubble stone flanking walls having cut-stone coping.
Appraisal
An attractive, well-proportioned, house forming the centrepiece of a substantially-intact, middle-size land holding. The house is identified by distinctive features characteristic of the Regency period, including the reserved Classically-derived detailing, and the overhanging eaves, all of which enhance the architectural value of the composition. Well maintained, the house presents an early aspect with much of the original form intact, together with a number of important salient features and materials. An attendant gate lodge, although apparently disused, presents an historic aspect, and contributes positively to the group and setting qualities of the site. A pleasant gateway of simple design distinction enhances the visual appeal of the street scene. The estate is of particular importance in the locality, having been occupied by Robert Shaw (n. d.), manager of the nearby industrial complex, in the nineteenth century.
Springfield House, County Waterford for sale 2023, photograph courtesy of Halley Grace.Springfield House, County Waterford for sale 2023, photograph courtesy of Halley Grace.
Springfield House, Coolroe, Portlaw, Waterford
€2,500,000
6 beds4 baths6209 m2
Halley Grace Auctioneers are delighted to present to the market, “Springfield House”, Coolroe, Portlaw, Co. Waterford. X91 NP99- C.12 Acres Zoned Residential. Springfield is a distinguished property consisting of a Georgian residence on C.12 acres of quality land. The imposing two storey house occupies a central elevated site, set back from the road in own grounds with stoned access surrounding the residence. Springfield property is set in pasture and woodland overlooking lawn areas with magnificent rhododendron and azalea areas.
Accommodation
GROUND FLOOR Pillared Porch leading to: Main Entrance Hall Reception – 8.20m x 4.34m (26ft-11in x 14ft-3in) With fireplace, cornice, centerpieces.
Springfield House, County Waterford for sale 2023, photograph courtesy of Halley Grace.Springfield House, County Waterford for sale 2023, photograph courtesy of Halley Grace.
Dining Room – 5.74m x 4.84m (18ft-10in x 15ft-11in) With white marble surround fireplace, ornate architrave, cornice, centerpieces.
Springfield House, County Waterford for sale 2023, photograph courtesy of Halley Grace.
Sitting Room – 6.06m x 4.81m (19ft-11in x 15ft-9in) With black marble fireplace, architrave, cornice, centerpieces, door to outside.
Drawing Room – 8.84m x 4.96m (29ft-0in x 16ft-3in) With pink marble fireplace, cornice, centerpieces, wall lamps.
Springfield House, County Waterford for sale 2023, photograph courtesy of Halley Grace.
Study – 5.04m x 4.24m (16ft-7in x 13ft-11in) With black marble fireplace, cornice, centerpieces, wall lamps.
Springfield House, County Waterford for sale 2023, photograph courtesy of Halley Grace.Springfield House, County Waterford for sale 2023, photograph courtesy of Halley Grace.
Kitchen – 5.68m x 4.98m (18ft-8in x 16ft-4in) With black marble fireplace, fitted kitchen.
Springfield House, County Waterford for sale 2023, photograph courtesy of Halley Grace.Springfield House, County Waterford for sale 2023, photograph courtesy of Halley Grace.
Utility Room – 3.63m x 4.04m (11ft-11in x 13ft-3in) With hot press/airing cupboard, plumbing for laundry appliances, door to outside.
Rear Hall Lobby – 3.63m x 2.08m (11ft-11in x 6ft-10in) With tiled floor. Shower/Toilet Room – 3.47m x 2.08m (11ft-5in x 6ft-10in) With shower, toilet, whb.
Springfield House, County Waterford for sale 2023, photograph courtesy of Halley Grace.Springfield House, County Waterford for sale 2023, photograph courtesy of Halley Grace.Springfield House, County Waterford for sale 2023, photograph courtesy of Halley Grace.
BASEMENT Store – 2.32m x 1.82m (7ft-7in x 6ft-0in) With storage shelving. Workshop – 5.04m x 3.55m (16ft-7in x 11ft-8in) With storage shelving. Games Room – 4.24m x 3.47m (13ft-11in x 11ft-5in) Exercise Room – 4.85m x 4.85m (15ft-11in x 15ft-11in) With storage shelving.
UPPER FLOOR Stairs leading to: Landing – 8.12m x 2.44m (26ft-8in x 8ft-0in) Bedroom 1 – 5.89m x 4.91m (19ft-4in x 16ft-1in) With white marble fireplace. Bedroom 2 – 5.70m x 4.98m (18ft-9in x 16ft-4in) With white marble fireplace. Bedroom 3 – 4.35m x 6.22m (14ft-3in x 20ft-5in) With painted slate fireplace. Bedroom 4 – 4.27m x 5.73m (14ft-0in x 18ft-10in) Bedroom 5 – 4.76m x 4.78m (15ft-8in x 15ft-8in) With fireplace. Bedroom 6 / Dressing Room – 5.00m x 4.08m (16ft-6in x 13ft-5in) With fireplace. Bathroom A – 2.89m x 3.85m (9ft-6in x 12ft-8in) With bath, shower, toilet, whb. Bathroom B – 2.78m x 2.40m (9ft-2in x 7ft-11in) With bath, shower, toilet, whb. Bathroom C – 2.82m x 2.41m (9ft-3in x 7ft-11in) With bath, shower, toilet, whb.
Springfield House, County Waterford for sale 2023, photograph courtesy of Halley Grace.Springfield House, County Waterford for sale 2023, photograph courtesy of Halley Grace.Springfield House, County Waterford for sale 2023, photograph courtesy of Halley Grace.Springfield House, County Waterford for sale 2023, photograph courtesy of Halley Grace.Springfield House, County Waterford for sale 2023, photograph courtesy of Halley Grace.
OUTSIDE With boiler house, oil tank, out houses, hayshed, lean-to. Oil Fired Central Heating 3 Phase Electricity Supply – ESB Mains Water, Mains Sewage. Telephone, Broadband – Eir All measurements and dimensions are approximate and provided for illustration purposes only.
Features
The residence was constructed by the Malcolmsons who were an Irish Quaker family active in many business ventures of the 19th Century. Features of the residence include its large entrance hall, with fine cornices and architraves throughout the reception areas. Retained original features include generous ceiling height, coving, roses, 6×6 timber frame sash windows, timber flooring. The house retains the qualities and character of the Georgian era and is surrounded by many trees and attractive shrubs. It is approached by a short avenue to a gravelled forecourt at the front. The gate lodge at the entrance, and outbuildings, stores, barn/lean-to grouped to the rear all have potential for redevelopment. Springfield House enjoys an abundance of privacy, with spacious living accommodation laid out in 2 storeys over basement. The residence consists of 3 reception rooms, dining room, kitchen/breakfast area, utility/laundry room, study, 6 bedrooms, 2 ensuite bathrooms, 1 separate family bathroom, a side entrance lobby with shower/toilet room. Springfield House is a Protected Structure of County Waterford. The land is zoned Residential in Waterford CCC Development Plan 2022-2028. The property is conveniently located only 20km from Waterford City. The property is held freehold. HIMMELREICH Model Railway at SPRINGFIELD HOUSE is on display only. The museum quality Layout is not included in the property sale transaction. HIMMELREICH Layout was designated “Plan of the Month” in the August 2020 edition of “Continental Modeller” Magazine. It also featured in Christmas 2020 edition of “Hollybough” – ’A Cork tradition since 1897’ The Layout operations frequently feature on INSTAGRAM and You Tube.
Springfield House, County Waterford for sale 2023, photograph courtesy of Halley Grace.
BER Details
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Viewing Details
Viewing of this magnificent property comes very highly recommended and Strictly through Sole Selling Agents Halley Grace Auctioneers. Please call 051-875187 to arrange.
Newtown Anner, County Tipperary, photograph by Robert French, (between ca. 1865-1914), Lawrence Photograph Collection, National Library of Ireland.
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. 225. “(Osborne, Bt/PB; Osborne/LG19863; Beauclerk, St Albans, D/PB) A two storey late-Georgian house with a front of nine bays, the three outer bays on either side breaking forwards and rising an extra storey above the centre to form rather wide roof pavilions. Doorway with engaged columns and large semi-circular fanlight over door and sidelights. Two storey curved bow at side. Fine saloon. The seat of the Osborne family; inherited by Catharine (nee Osborne), wife of Ralph Bernal, MP, the C19 Radical politician, who assumed the name of Osborne; passed eventually to their grandson, 2th Duke of St Albans. Recenty sold.”
Newtown Anner, County Tipperary, photograph by Robert French, (between ca. 1865-1914), Lawrence Photograph Collection, National Library of Ireland.
Newtownanner House, NEWTOWNANNER DEMESNE, Tipperary South
Detached country house, built 1829, comprising three-bay two-storey centre block with slightly-projecting three-bay three-storey wings and slightly-lower two-storey T-shaped block to rear comprising central three-bay part flanked by five-bay part to north-west and four-bay to north-east, latter with bowed west end and having single-storey canted-bay to rear. Pitched slate roof to centre block and hipped slate to wings and to east and west gables of rear block. Rendered chimneystacks to rear elevations of wings and to rear block. Decorative carved timber bargeboards to pitched north gable of rear block. U-plan stairwell pierces roof at junction of centre and rear blocks, with curving slate roof. Roughcast rendered walls with cut limestone eaves course. Square-headed window openings with timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Nine-over-six pane windows to ground floor, six-over-six pane windows to first floor and four-over-eight pane to second floor of wings. Six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to bowed east end of south-east rear block, with various timber transomed and mullioned and other casement windows to rear elevations. Oriel window to east elevation of east wing, supported on moulded brackets, having moulded cornice and sill course, with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash window to front and eight-pane casements to sides, all with shouldered and kneed render surrounds. Ornate carved limestone doorcase comprising round-headed opening with carved limestone archivolt with elaborate petal and cobweb fanlight. Entablature with patera and frieze and paired Doric-style cut limestone engaged columns framing sidelights with decorative glazing and timber panel and glazed double-leaf door with cut limestone advance. Cut limestone piers to entrance gates to main road, with carved caps and cast-iron gates and railings.
Appraisal
Formerly the home of the Duke of St Albans and the Osbourne family, this imposing substantially intact country house preserves a skilfully and delicately carved doorway which gives the house an ornate focus. The house is notable for its wings which, unusually, are taller than the central block. The vertical thrust of the wings is emphasised by the diminishing windows. The setting is enhanced by the shell grotto, the well-preserved walled garden and the ruined temple, all of which add context and are fine examples of the activities of this significant former demesne.
Three-bay single-storey rubble limestone masonry shell grotto to north-west of country house, built c.1830. Pointed-arch entrances with rubble limestone voussoirs. Cut limestone steps and rubble limestone masonry well with pointed-arch opening adjacent to shell grotto.
Appraisal
This garden feature is typical of many demesnes in Ireland. The Gothic Revival appearance was regularly favoured for these structures. This well-preserved example, along with the temple, adds significantly to the setting and significance of Newtownanner Demesne.
Remains of garden temple, built c.1830, to west of Newtownanner House, with boathouse to underside, looking onto boating canals and ponds. Flights of cut limestone steps to north and south having rendered brick and rubble limestone piers at landing level and at base. Ruinous remains of stone and brick temple to platform accessed by the flights of steps.
Appraisal
This now ruinous garden feature formerly consisted of a temple with a pediment supported on eight columns, accessed by the surviving flights of steps. It forms a significant feature of Newtownanner Demesne and overlooked intricately-laid out boating watercourses in a well-conceived demesne landscape.
The seat of the Osborne family, held by R.B. Osborne MP in fee in the mid 19th century when the buildings were valued at £56+. Inherited by 12th Duke of St Albans, grandson of R.B. Osborne. Occupied by the Duchess of St Albans in 1906 and still in this family’s possession in the early 1940s. The Irish Tourist Association survey states that the Osbornes bought the property from Clonmel Corporation in 1774. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage dates this house 1829. It continues to be in use as a residence.
Featured in Mark Bence Jones, Life in an Irish Country House. Constable, London. 1996.
THE OSBORNE BARONETS OWNED 12,242 ACRES OF LAND IN COUNTY WATERFORD AND 942 ACRES IN COUNTY TIPPERARY
This family claims to be an elder branch of the house of OSBORNE, from which the DUKES OF LEEDS descended.
The Osbornes of Newtown Anner first settled in Ireland in 1558, and were raised to the degree of baronets in the person ofSIR RICHARD OSBORNE (1593-1667), of Ballintaylor, and of Ballylemon, in County Waterford, in 1629, having been appointed by JAMES I, in 1616, with Henry Osborne, Clerk of The King’s Courts, and prothonotary within the city and county of Limerick; and in Tipperary, Clerk of the Crown and Peace, and Clerk of the Assizes in the said counties.
During the Civil Wars, taking the side of the usurper Cromwell, he was attacked in his castle of Knockmoan, by the Earl of Castlehaven, in 1645, and compelled to surrender at discretion. Sir Richard, MP for Waterford County, 1639-49, 1661-66, was succeeded by his eldest son,
SIR RICHARD OSBORNE, 2nd Baronet (1618-85), High Sheriff of County Waterford, 1671, MP for Dungarvan, 1639-48, who wedded Elizabeth Carew, and had issue,
JOHN, his successor; Richard (c1662-1713); Grace; Elizabeth; Anne.
Sir Richard was succeeded by his eldest son,
SIR JOHN OSBORNE (c1645-1713), 3rd Baronet, who wedded, in 1699, Elizabeth, fourth daughter of Thomas Walsingham, and granddaughter, maternally, of Theophilus, 2nd Earl of Suffolk; but dying without issue in 1713, the title devolved upon his kinsman,
SIR THOMAS OSBORNE(1639-1715), (grandson of 1st Baronet, through his 2nd son, Nicholas Osborne), 5th Baronet, who married twice.
By his first wife, Katherine Butler, he had issue,
Nicholas, who predeceased him; father of NICHOLAS.
Sir Thomas wedded secondly, in 1704, Anne, youngest daughter of Beverley Usher, but by that lady had no issue.
He died was succeeded by his grandson,
SIR NICHOLAS OSBORNE (1685-1719), 6th Baronet, who married Mary, daughter of the Rt Rev Dr Thomas Smith, Lord Bishop of Limerick.
Dying in 1718 without male issue, the title devolved upon his brother,
SIR JOHN OSBORNE, 7th Baronet (1697-1743), Barrister, MP for Lismore, 1719-27, County Waterford, 1727-43, who wedded Editha, only daughter of William Proby MP, sometime governor of Fort St George, in the East Indies, by whom he had six sons and four daughters.
Sir John was succeeded by his eldest son,
THE RT HON SIR WILLIAM OSBORNE, 8th Baronet (1722-83), MP for Carysfort, 1761-83, Dungarvan, 1768-83, who married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of of Thomas Christmas, of Whitfield, County Waterford, and had issue,
THOMAS, his successor; Charles, a judge; HENRY, succeeded his brother; Elizabeth.
Sir William died in 1783, and was succeeded by his eldest son,
SIR THOMAS OSBORNE (1757-1821), 9th Baronet, MP for Carysfort, 1776-97, who espoused Catherine Rebecca, daughter of Major Robert Smith.
The heir apparent is the present holder’s eldest son George Gideon Oliver Osborne (b 1971). The heir apparent’s heir apparent is his only son Luke Benedict Osborne.
Ralph B Osborne owned 942 acres in County Tipperary; and her cousin, Sir Charles Stanley Osborne, 13th Baronet, of Beechwood Park, Nenagh, owned 940 acres in County Tipperary.
Sir Peter George Osborne, 17th and present Baronet (b 1943) co-founded the wallpaper company,Osborne & Little.
NEWTOWN ANNER HOUSE (above), near Clonmel, County Tipperary, is a two-storey late-Georgian house with a nine-bay front, the three outer bays breaking forwards and elevated an extra storey above the centre block.
Newtown Anner was formerly a seat of the Osborne Baronets; as was Beechwood Park in County Tipperary.
The doorway has engaged columns and a large semi-circular fanlight over the door and side-lights; with a curved two-storey bow at the side.
The Osbornes purchased the Newtown Anner estate from Clonmel Corporation in 1774, though the present house dates from 1829.
Newtown Anner passed eventually to the 12th Duke of St Albans, grandson of Ralph and Catherine Bernal (nee Osborne).
It was occupied by the Duchess of St Albans in 1906 and was still in that family’s possession in the early 1940s.
It is now thought to be the home of Nigel Cathcart.
Mobarnane, Knockbritt, Fethard, Co Tipperary – accommodation
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. 300. “Hussey de Burgh/IFR) A three storey five bay house of early to mid-C18 appearance to which has been added a two storey five bay early C19 front with an eaved roof and a one bay breakfront centre. The new front has a doorway with Doric columns, sidelights and. segmented fanlight, leading into a hall with a cantilevered staircase. In the earlier part of the house there is a staircase of sturdy C18 joinery. The home of Mr and Mrs Charles Hazel.”
Section 482 in 2000, Richard V. Craik-White, 052 31962
Detached country house, comprising five-bay two-storey front block built c.1820, with shallow single-bay breakfront, and five-bay three-storey earlier block to rear, possibly built 1734. Earlier block has medieval tower house within eastern half and possibly late seventeenth-century block within western, and lower single-bay three-storey central pedimented projection with two-storey pitched slate roof addition to front of same, and having L-plan multiple-bay two-storey addition to northwest with pitched artificial slate roof. Later block has skirt slate roof with wide overhanging sheeted eaves, rendered moulded eaves course and eaves plat-band, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Earlier has hipped slate roof, formerly pitched and steeper, with rendered eaves course, eaves plat-band and rendered chimneystacks with panel detailing. Pebble-dashed walls to both blocks, having quoin plat-bands and cut limestone plinth to later block. north elevation of older block has continuous base batter to lower two storeys. Square-headed window openings throughout, with timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to first floor and nine-over-six pane to ground floor of later block and six-over-six pane to lower floors of earlier block, with three-over-six pane to second floor of same and round-headed six-over-six pane to upper part of pedimented projection, all with tooled cut limestone sills. Segmental-headed doorway to front of later block, with replacement glazed timber door set into cut limestone doorcase and flanked by paned sidelights, all recessed from face of elevation and having advanced fluted Doric columns and plain pilasters supporting entablature bearing wreath motifs, carved cornice and decorative fanlight having render surround, approached by flight of cement rendered steps to entrance. Interior of older block has plaster cornice, lugged and kneed architraves to doors, and staircase to ground floor. Yards to east side of house, accessed through dressed limestone elliptical archway with two-storey outbuildings having pitched slate roofs and rendered walls, some with segmental and round-headed carriage entrances. One group is L-plan and another has building with bell-cote to gable end. Rubble limestone boundary walls with dressed limestone piers and cast-iron gates. Extensive gardens to rear of house. Appraisal This country house is a complex structure with three or four distinct phases, medieval, possibly late seventeenth-century, early eighteenth-century and early nineteenth century, charting the progress of domestic architecture over five hundred years. The relatively modest exteriors are enhanced by the widely overhanging eaves and fine, if restrained, carved limestone doorcase to the latest block and the pediment to the eighteenth-century one. The retention of timber sash windows throughout preserves the external architectural quality, and a host of internal features, including cornices, doors and fine staircases, ensures that a rich legacy has been meticulously maintained. The setting is very pleasant, with fine gardens and a lake and a variety of good farm buildings, one of them a watermill that once provided electrical power to the property. The building was a seat of the Jacob family, a member of which was a juror in the trial of Father Nicholas Sheehy in 1766, the jury convicting the priest. Thereafter the house was said to be cursed, with the crows fleeing and never nesting there again.
Mobarnan was the seat of the Jacob family in the 18th and 19th centuries. Occupied by Samuel Jacob in 1814, M. Jacob in 1837 and by Samuel Jacob at the time of Griffith’s Valuation. He held the property in fee and the buildings were valued at £37+. Later the home of the Tennant family. This house was enlarged in the early 19th century and is still in use as a residence. In the 1970s it was owned by Major Marcus William Keane, formerly of Beech Park, and his wife, Anne R. Armitage of Noan, Co Tipperary.
Quite unlike any typical Hotel, Guesthouse or B&B in Ireland, Mobarnane is a historic 18th Century Georgian Country House formerly owned by the Jacobs and de Burgh families. Located in the heart of the Golden Vale in South Tipperary, just 7 miles from the Rock of Cashel, it is a large rural family home hidden away in its own tranquil parkland setting.
Here you will be personally welcomed on arrival and looked after by your hosts Richard and Sandra Craik-White who provide understated luxury bed and breakfast accommodation with dinner if you would like it.
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. 189. “Lloyd/IFR) a two storey late-Georgian house with an eaved roof, thee bay entrance front; single-storey Ionic portico with acroteria; front prolonged by a three storey wing set a little back, four bay side, prolonged by an elegant polygonal conservatory with pilasters.”
Lloydsborough House, LLOYDSBOROUGH (KILLEA PR), Tipperary North
Detached three-bay two-storey house over half basement, built c. 1820, with projecting cut limestone Ionic portico with flight of steps to entrance and with slightly-recessed three-bay three-storey wing to north-west. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and paired eaves brackets. Roughcast rendered walls to main block, dressed limestone to basement, with cut limestone sting course, render quoins and with moulded render surrounds to window openings, shouldered to ground floor. Exposed rubble limestone walls to later block, with brick voussoirs to openings. Square-headed openings with timber sash windows, six-over-six pane to ground floor and eight-over-eight to first floor, of main block, two-over-two pane to later block and replacement elsewhere, with limestone sills. Square-headed door opening having timber panelled double doors with render surround. Bow windows to south elevation with carved limestone surrounds. Decorative cast- and wrought-iron balcony to west elevation. Multiple-bay single- and two-storey outbuildings to west, having rubble limestone walls with dressed limestone voussoirs to segmental-arched carriage openings and lunette windows. Rubble limestone boundary walls to yard with wrought-iron gates.
Appraisal
This imposing house is an interesting and notable example of late Georgian architecture in Ireland. The house retains its form and structure, which is enhanced by original features such as the carved limestone decorative window surrounds, and the ornate cast- and wrought-iron balcony. The highly decorative portico adds artistic interest to the building, and is clearly the work of skilled craftsmen. The house, together with the outbuildings form a notable group of demesne structures.
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. 177. “Butler, Dunboyne, B/Pb; Cooke, sub Cooke-Collis/IFR; de Sales la Terriere/LG1969) A castle of the Butlers, Lords Dunboyne, romantically situated on a rock high above the Clashawley River, originally with four square corner towers of which three remain; two of them having been altered and added to during C18 and C19 by the Cooke family, to form the present house.”
Multi-period country house comprising five-bay block of c.1600, modified c.1820, with three-storey south, garden, elevation and three- and four-storey north, entrance, elevation and flanked to east and west by projecting four-stage towers of c.1500. Garden elevation of later block projects beyond face of towers. Roof of house not visible. Crenellated parapets to all elevations, having decorative cut-stone copings and dentil course to south elevation and pinnacles with ball finials to corners of towers. Roughly dressed limestone walls. String course and crowsteps to west parapet of west tower. Timber sliding sash windows throughout. Brick surrounds to windows of entrance elevation, segmental-arched three-over-three pane to top floor with pointed arch lights to upper lifts of windows, pointed arched with traceried fanlights elsewhere, six-over-none pane to tall centre-bay windows and six-over-six pane elsewhere. Dressed limestone surrounds to windows of garden elevation, with pointed arch lights to upper lifts of windows, three-over-three pane to top floor, nine-over-six pane to middle floor and six-over-six pane to ground floor. West tower has traceried 15th c. window to first floor of west elevation, pointed arched windows and single- and two-light ogee-headed windows and oculus windows elsewhere. Replacement timber entrance doorway set into four-centred dressed limestone surround, in turn recessed into four-centred opening with brick surround. Five-bay two-storey return of c.1500 to rear of east tower. Return has pitched slate roof with brick chimneystack, rubble walls and 15th c. two-light windows, some with label-mouldings. Crenellated screen wall returns to rear of west tower to enclose courtyard to north of house and has 19th c. limestone armorial plaque over round-headed archway with timber battened double-leaf door. East-west range of outbuildings with integral segmental carriageway terminates north end of screen wall at right angles and leads into second courtyard which is curtain wall of 13th c. castle. Range is multiple-bay two-storey with pitched slate roof, brick chimneys and rubble walls, dressed to south side of archway. South elevation has timber sliding sash windows with limestone sills and dressed voussoirs, six-over-six pane with four-over-four pane flanking archway and some oculi to first floor with pivoted windows. Blocked carriage arch and replacement timber sliding sash windows to north elevation. Wall curving from north-east corner of range connects with donjon. Multiple-bay two-storey range along north-west curtain wall with pitched corrugated asbestos roof, rubble walls and has pointed arch doorways to ground floor and slit vents to first floor. Four-bay two-storey outbuilding in middle of north courtyard has pitched artificial slate roof, rubble limestone walls, square-headed timber sliding sash windows and some arched openings to ground floor with dressed voussoirs. Pointed archway in castle curtain wall, to south of donjon, has sculpted plaque of two-tailed cat and date 1821. Archway leads to rock-cut passage descending to two-storey fortified 16th c. wellhouse. House sited on eminence overlooking Clashawley River. Grounds contain 15th c. dovecote, medieval church and graveyard, remains of deserted medieval settlement. Gate lodges to west and south.
Kiltinan Castle, a of the Butlers, was substantially remodelled by the Cooke family during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The main block, said to be built by E. Cooke Esq., incorporates the 15th c. towers. At the rear is the donjon and curtain wall of a 13th c. castle. The overall form of the house presents an imposing façade, complemented by crenellations and pinnacles. The inclusion of the 15th c. towers and return has resulted in a multi-period residence with the fabric of at least five centuries contained within it. The variety of windows with pointed arch detailing is noteworthy. The courtyards of buildings behind the house add considerably to its setting. The demesne contains a myriad of features of archaeological, historic and scenic interest, including the site of a medieval village, a ruined medieval church, a medieval dovecote and imposing 19th. gatehouses.
Detached circular-plan single-storey dovecote, built c. 1500. Coursed rubble limestone walls and domed roof with limestone coping to top of wall. Square-headed opening to north-west side with roughly dressed limestone lintel.
Appraisal
This dovecote, situated in a prominent location within the grounds of Kiltinan Castle, retains its original form and materials. It is a valuable document and fine example of the extent and activities of this demesne in previous centuries.
Detached three-bay two-storey gateway, built 1842, with gable-fronted end bays and slightly recessed entrance bay. Crenellations with cut-stone copings to parapet. Coursed rubble sandstone walls with croix pommées to ground floor. Square-headed window openings, now blocked up, with limestone sills and label mouldings. Carved limestone date plaque over window above entrance arch. Tudor-arch archway with cut-stone voussoirs and double-leaf cast-iron gates. Sweeping rubble sandstone walls flanking gatehouse and terminated by roughly dressed sandstone piers having rough crenellations. Post box with crown and royal insignia of Queen Victoria to west sweep wall.
Appraisal
The southern entrance to Kiltinan Castle, prominently situated at a junction, presents a commanding and imposing façade to the roadway. Once the seat of the Butlers, Kiltinan Castle was substantially remodelled by the Cooke family during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The architecture of the gateway is modelled on that of the castle hence the crenellations and medieval motifs such as the croix pommées. The gateway is notable for its large size and decorative detailing such as the label mouldings.
Quadrant entrance gateway, built c. 1840, comprising pointed archway flanked by crenellated two-stage towers presenting V-plan to roadside. Coursed roughly dressed sandstone walls with cut-stone string course and eaves course. Square-headed arrow slit openings to towers and carved sandstone oculi to spandrels of archway. Double-leaf cast-iron gates. Crenellated screen walls to each side of gateway, with pointed arch pedestrian entrances, one blocked. Sweep walls terminated by crenellated dressed sandstone piers.
Appraisal
This imposing gateway, a fine example of castellated architecture, forms the west, main, entrance to Kiltinan Castle. The architecture of the gateway is modelled on that of the castle hence the use of medieval motifs such as the crenellations and the skilfully-made arrow slits. The gateway represents a striking roadside feature.
Kiltinane Castle was the seat of the Cooke family in the 18th and 19th centuries. Lewis describes the castle as the seat of R. Cooke, it “consists of an ancient circular tower …. and a residence erected on the old site by the late E. Cooke”. In the mid 19th century the buildings were valued at £38+ and held by Robert Cooke in fee. Noted by Slater in 1894 as the seat of Robert Cooke. Sold by the Cookes in the 1920s to Mrs le Terrier, Kiltinan Castle now belongs to Andrew Lloyd Webber.
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. 158. “A simple two storey early to mid-C19 Tudor-Revival house…Impressive Georgian stables with pedimented archways facing the house across a forecourt, in the centre of which is a large and elaborate Neptune fountain. The seat of the Jackson family.”
Detached seven-bay two-storey house, built c. 1825, with slightly advanced gabled end bays flanking arcaded central bays and with earlier nine-bay two-storey dwelling to west, c. 1730. Pitched slate roofs with cut limestone chimneystacks, decorative eaves course with carved basal corbels. Smooth rendered and lined-and-ruled rendered walls, having decorative croix pommées and shields to front elevation and cut stone plinths. Double trefoil-headed leaded one-over-one pane timber sash windows in square-headed openings with label mouldings, cut limestone sills, and with render panels below to first floor. Narrower four-over-four pane timber sash windows to rear block. Pseudo four-centred arches separated by panelled pilasters to arcade. Decorative traceried windows throughout, with decorative spandrels to square-headed openings. Segmental-headed timber panelled double doors in limestone doorcase flanked by pseudo four-center-arched windows.
Appraisal
The contrast between the simple façade and narrow windows of the earlier east block and the more decorative Tudor Revival M-profile of the north elevation is evidence of the gradual growth of this building and the change in architectural styles. The form and scale of this house are further enhanced by the retention of features such as its slate roof, timber sash windows and studded panelled door.
Nine-bay two-storey house built c. 1730 to north of later house. Slated roof, half-hipped to south end and gabled to north. Rendered and cut stone chimneys and cast-iron rainwater goods. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls. Narrow square-headed openings throughout. Timber margined casement windows to southernmost bay and timber sash windows with exposed boxes elsewhere, all with cut stone sills. Replacement glazed timber door.
Appraisal
This house, built more than a century earlier than the main Inane House, is notable for its narrow timber sash windows and steeply-pitched slate roof. It is unusually long and is one of the oldest houses in the county.
Stable blocks added in 1826 to form south-west and north-west ranges of courtyard, with later extensions to house to south. Seven-bay two-storey ranges of former stables, having slightly advanced pedimented bay to each, with pseudo four-centred carriage arches. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with limestone string course and plinth. Double trefoil-headed traceried timber sash windows in square-headed openings with limestone sills and circular metal pivoted windows to first floor, and casement windows to ground floor, all with lattice glazing. Square-headed door openings glazed timber doors with traceried overlights. Cut limestone lantern to north-west range. Rendered fountain to centre of courtyard. Further outbuildings to north. Sandstone demesne wall to site boundary.
Appraisal
The high level of detailing in the windows, in the stable blocks as well as the house, is evidence of the high quality craftsmanship of the early nineteenth century. The apparent architectural design of the impressive stable blocks belies their functional purpose. The central fountain provides an artistic focus to the courtyard.
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. 72. “(Parker/LG1894) A two storey five bay Georgian house with a high roof.”
Detached three-bay two-storey two-pile country house. Front block, built c. 1820, has canted bay windows flanking open projecting flat-roofed porch. Earlier rear block is four-bay and three-storey with dormer attic and has single- and two-storey additions to rear. Hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods and with moulded render parapet except to rear elevation of rear block. Rendered walls, with cut limestone quoins and plinth to front block. Timber sash windows throughout, with cut stone sills. Later block has one-over-one pane windows and earlier block has exposed sash boxes with wide variety of small-pane window, including horizontally-sliding timber sash windows to ground floor, some double sash windows and narrow single lights to west elevation. Brackets and render cornices to bay windows and with render surrounds to all other windows of front block. Tripartite window over porch has render pilasters, frieze, cornice and brackets to mullions. Canted bay window to west gable of front block. Square-headed opening with replacement timber panelled door, overlight and sidelights. Yard of outbuildings to north-west with stone belfry, pitched, hipped and half-hipped artificial slate roofs, rendered and rubble stone walls and with square-headed and segmental arched openings having timber sash and casement windows.
Appraisal
Architectural quality and refinement are apparent in the design, execution and detailing of Castlelough House. The house is enhanced by the distinctive porch and elegant front windows, which exhibit fine detailing, and also by the survival of many original features and materials. The earlier block attached to the rear is a particularly interesting part of the house, and retains small-pane timber sash windows. The outbuildings form an interesting group of ancillary structures to the main house.
Castle Grace, Clogheen, Co Tipperary, photograph Michael Daniels and Shelley and Purcell estate agents 2019.
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. 70. “(Grubb/IFR) A Georgian house, constructed ca 1825.”
Castle Grace, Clogheen, Co Tipperary, photograph Michael Daniels and Shelley and Purcell estate agents 2019.Castle Grace, Clogheen, Co Tipperary, photograph Michael Daniels and Shelley and Purcell estate agents 2019.
Detached complex irregular-plan house, built c. 1860, oriented north-south and comprising three-bay two-storey over basement main block, having lower single-bay two-storey return to centre of north side elevation, single-bay single-storey porch to east of return. Attached to north is lower three-bay two-storey over basement middle block, further north is block which projects beyond west elevation of rest of building, is same height as main house and is three-bay two-storey over basement to east and north and two-bay two-storey over basement to west. Single-storey over basement further block to north-west corner of complex, with three-bay west elevation. Hipped slate roofs to larger blocks, skirt plan and with oversailing sheeted eaves to main block, pitched slate elsewhere, with rendered chimneystacks, H-plan arrangement to main block. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window timber sliding sash windows throughout, with limestone sills and mainly six-over-six pane, except for middle block and return which have three-over-three pane windows to east and north elevations respectively. North elevation of return also has round-headed fixed paned timber window with spoked fanlight. Segmental-headed doorway to main block, with rendered doorcase having decoratively-glazed sidelights, cobweb fanlight and timber panelled door, approached by flight of cut limestone steps. Round-headed door opening to west, garden, front of middle block, with has cut limestone doorcase with plinths, impost lintel, carved archivolt and raised keystone, with spoked timber fanlight and timber panelled door, approached by cut limestone steps. Square-headed timber panelled door with paned overlight to porch to east elevation of middle block. Building retains interior features. Quadrant entrance gateway with vehicular entrance flanked by pedestrian entrances, set to tooled cut limestone octagonal-profile piers with plinths and caps, having cast-iron single- and double-leaf gates, and similar railings to cut limestone plinth walls.
Appraisal
The regular fenestration and symmetrical façades provide a sense of order and coherence to what is a complex irregular plan, creating complex principal elevations. The house is obviously the result of several building phases, the middle block perhaps being older than the main house. The retention of timber sash windows add texture and depth to the elevations. The irregular roofline, overhanging eaves, and mature planting to the front and rear anchor this building in the landscape. The property has a fine cast-iron and cut limestone gateway and forms part of an interesting group with the nearby mill, manager’s house, the matching house across the road, and the bridge to the south.
Castle Grace, Clogheen, Co Tipperary, photograph Michael Daniels and Shelley and Purcell estate agents 2019.
For sale 4/11/2019
7 bed, four bath, Price on asking, €2,650,000
651 sq m
Shelley & Purcell
Tel: 051 649 992
PSRA Licence No. 002203
In the same family since the Georgian main house was built in the early 1800s, there is also the ruins of a Norman castle, a three-bedroom mill house, mill building with its own hydroelectrics, and an additional three-bed cottage which is in walk-in condition.
Castle Grace, Clogheen, Co Tipperary, photograph Michael Daniels and Shelley and Purcell estate agents 2019.Castle Grace, Clogheen, Co Tipperary, photograph Michael Daniels and Shelley and Purcell estate agents 2019.
Set on 120 acres of pasture with orchards (yes, there is a cider press), Castlegrace has always earned its keep. The mill ground corn and wheat grown on the surrounding fertile soil. More recently the estate became the centre of Limousin cattle breeding in Ireland, according to Nicholas Grubb, descendent of the first Samuel Grubb, who originally leased the lands in 1800.
In 1939, another Grubb family descendant, Nicolas’s father, set up Tipperary Products, using the mill to process, as Nicholas puts it, “pretty much everything you could find: blackberries, sloes, honey, rabbits, old hens: they all went by train to London”. Post-war, while rationing was still being imposed in Britain, boxes of sugar were exported, hidden under a layer of fruity mincemeat, for sale on the black market.
Castle Grace, Clogheen, Co Tipperary, photograph Michael Daniels and Shelley and Purcell estate agents 2019.
A delightful country Estate property in a most scenic rural setting with the handsome Georgian Castlegrace House commanding spectacular views of the Knockmealdown Mountains.
Castle Grace, Clogheen, Co Tipperary, photograph Michael Daniels and Shelley and Purcell estate agents 2019.Castle Grace, Clogheen, Co Tipperary, photograph Michael Daniels and Shelley and Purcell estate agents 2019.Castle Grace, Clogheen, Co Tipperary, photograph Michael Daniels and Shelley and Purcell estate agents 2019.Castle Grace, Clogheen, Co Tipperary, photograph Michael Daniels and Shelley and Purcell estate agents 2019.Castle Grace, Clogheen, Co Tipperary, photograph Michael Daniels and Shelley and Purcell estate agents 2019.Castle Grace, Clogheen, Co Tipperary, photograph Michael Daniels and Shelley and Purcell estate agents 2019.Castle Grace, Clogheen, Co Tipperary, photograph Michael Daniels and Shelley and Purcell estate agents 2019.Castle Grace, Clogheen, Co Tipperary, photograph Michael Daniels and Shelley and Purcell estate agents 2019.Castle Grace, Clogheen, Co Tipperary, photograph Michael Daniels and Shelley and Purcell estate agents 2019.Castle Grace, Clogheen, Co Tipperary, photograph Michael Daniels and Shelley and Purcell estate agents 2019.
Lying in the shadow of the Knockmealdown Mountains, Castle Grace, County Tipperary is believed to have been built by the de Bermingham family around the mid-13th century. Its substantial square keep originally had a tower at each corner but only two circular ones remain. The castle’s ruins now serve as a walled garden for an adjacent Georgian house, the upper sections of stone and brick interior at present smothered in cascades of wisteria.
Lying in the shadow of the Knockmealdown Mountains, Castle Grace, County Tipperary is believed to have been built by the de Bermingham family around the mid-13th century. Its substantial square keep originally had a tower at each corner but only the two seen here remain. Today the ruins serve as a walled garden for an adjacent mid-19th century house, about which more later in the spring. If Castle Grace looks familiar, this is because it appeared in Stanley Kubrick’s incomparably beautiful 1975 film Barry Lyndon. The relevant scene: after our eponymous anti-hero has fled his home, been robbed at gunpoint and forced by penury to join the army, he camps here and engages in a bare-knuckle fight with one of his fellow soldiers.
Georgian estate with Norman castle, mill and film star credentials for €2.65m
Atmospheric estate was the setting for a Stanley Kubrick movie, while the mill boasts a firefighting friendly ghost
Set in the foothills of the Knockmealdown Mountains, and just over the Vee from Lismore, Castlegrace is one of those rare yet quintessentially Irish country estates.
Accommodation
Castlegrace House with Reception Hall • Drawing Room • Dining Room • Billiard Room Sitting Room • Office • Two Kitchens • Seven Bedrooms • Four Bathrooms • Lower Ground Floor with Seven Rooms and Wine Cellar • Gardens and Pleasure Grounds with Medieval Castle Ruins • Frontage and Fishing to the River Tar • Wonderful Views Mill House with three Bedrooms • Bridge Cottage with three Bedrooms • Historic C19th 5-storey stone Mill • Farmyard • Excellent land in tillage, pasture and cider orchards • Hydro-electric scheme FOR SALE FREEHOLD BY PRIVATE TREATY AS A WHOLE OR IN LOTS AS DESCRIBED: Lot 1: Castlegrace House with 31.74 Hectares (78.42 Acres) Lot 2: Lands comprising 16.88 Hectares (41.70 Acres) Lot 3: The Entire – 48.61 Hectares (120.1 Acres)
Directions
From Clogheen, proceed east taking the R665. After approx. 3.5km turn right at the crossroads where the entrance gates to the property will be seen to the right a short distance along this road. Please note that no signboards are erected at the property.
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.
Grubb of Castle Grace and Cahir Abbey.
p. 91. The Grubbs were of European origin, but the John Grubb who came to Ireland was a Cromwellian grantee. He was settled at Annis Castle on 1000 acres in South Kilkenny, near New Ross. The castle was a ruin and John and his wife, Mary, had to settle in a nearby house. He set up a linen business in an existing mill on the property and in 1676 the family became Quakers. John and Mary had one son, Samuel, and five daughters. John got married a second time after his wife died. He was in his sixties and the children of his first family were already adults. John and his second wife moved from Annis Castle to Meylerspark, in Co Wexford, near New Ross.
Samuel himself got married and had two sons, William and John. William went to America with William Penn, the founder of the state of Pennsylvania. …The younger son, John, inherited Annis Castle, He had four daughters and when he died in the mid 18th C the lands passed out of Grubb ownership.
Meanwhile John the elder and his second wife found life at Meylerspark difficult and when John died his son, also caleld John, a boy of 16, continued to work in the family linen business with the help of his mother’s family. He got married and had ten children. A downturn in the linen trade led to a period of extreme hardship. John was forced to sell whatever he had and move to County Tipperary where a fellow Quaker rented him a small farm, at Magorban, halfway between Fethard and Cashel.
[John went to America to earn money, was falsely accused of stealing, went to jail for a year then Quaker friends gave him money to return to Ireland to his wife and family]
[p. 92. His son Joseph] Joseph’s first job was in a mill in Clonmel. There he learned everything about the milling industry. His marriage to Anne Greer, a wealthy heiress, the daughter of a succesful Quaker merchatn, proved to be the turning point in his life.
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. 17. (Gilbey, Bt/PB) A two storey late-Georgian house. Three bay front, fanlighted doorway obscured by later two bayside-entered porch with simple pilasters and corner-pilasters; roundheaded tripartite windows in lower storey on either sideof centre. Three bay side. Internal fanlight between hall and stairs. The seat of the Murphy family; passed by inheritance to Mrs. Ralph Gilbey.”
Detached L-plan three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820, with rear return to one side, lower two-bay two-storey addition to return, and having two-bay lean-to addition to rear of other side. Later projecting hipped slate roofed porch to front. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Pitched slate roof to addition. Painted lined-and-ruled rendered walls, slate-hung to gable of lean-to addition. Segmental-headed tripartite window openings to ground floor front, square-headed elsewhere, with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, all with limestone sills. Variety of timber sliding sash windows to rear elevation of return. Round-headed door opening to porch interior having spoked fanlight and timber panelled door. Glazed timber door and windows to porch. Segmental-arched carriage gateway to yard to rear of house. Multiple-bay double-height outbuildings having pitched and lean-to slate roofs and painted rendered walls. West range has bellcote to north gable, wide windbreak to segmental-arched entrance and having spoked diocletian window above. Snecked rubble limestone piers with carved caps and decorative double-leaf cast-iron gates.
The regular and symmetrical form of this house is typical of the larger farm houses of the era. However, the round-headed tripartite windows are an unusual feature which serve to enliven the façade and the large chimneystacks add a sense of grandeur to the building. The site is enhanced by the retention of interesting outbuildings, one with an ornate bellcote and carriage arch which provides context to the site. The piers and cast-iron gates are decorative and form an attractive roadside feature.
In late autumn 2016 Tipperary Studies received a donation of family papers from the present owners of Ballinamona House, Cashel, the Clifton-Browne family. The papers relate to the Murphy family, previous owners of Ballinamona House. The collection contained 1,251 negative images.
While most are of Ballinamona House, grounds and family there are images from various parts of Tipperary, Ireland and England, with a lot of varied images of social life, farm animals, horses and families in and around Ballinamona. There are also several images of the Galtee mountains.
At the time the images were taken, the owner of Ballinamona was Lt. Col. Edmond William Murphy (died 6 February 1947) and his wife Mary Ellen Murphy (died early 1931). They were married on 11 April 1883 at Bavarian Chapel, Westminster. The first lot of negatives, based on age profile, are believed to date from the late 1890s to around 1912. These were taken by brother and sister Edmond William Montague Murphy (born 10 October 1886) and Mary Kathleen Murphy (born 1888). In this there are 101 items. There are also fourteen sleeves of undated and unnamed negatives of which there are 163 items. The next lot dating from August 1913 to September 1932 were taken by Edmond W.M. Murphy. In this there are 983 items. In the Edmond Murphy files there are 4 items which could not be matched with the writing on the negative sleeve. Based on the writing on the sleeve and numbering sequence which Edmond used there are 114 negatives missing.
In the images taken by Mary Kathleen there are several which include Alfred Durham “Durrie” Murphy, DSO, MC (born 30 April 1890), brother to Edmond and Kathleen. He was a Lieut-Colonel with the Leinster Regiment in World War I. He was killed in action on 6 November 1917, aged 27 years.
Edmond was Hon. Secretary of the Irish Rainfall Association. He died on 20 March 1965, aged 78 years. Kathleen died on the 16th of February 1975, at Ballinamona House.
The text of Edmond’s images are as he has indexed them on the negative sleeves. While the contrast and exposure on several images was adjusted to enhance the finished image, there are several which were could not be enhanced and the quality is therefore somewhat duller.
A few minutes spent browsing these fascinating images will give wonderful insight into the social history of early 20th Century Tipperary, and beyond.
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