Detached T-plan three-bay two-storey house, built c.1850, with long return of equal height to rear. Hipped slate roof, clay ridge tiles, pair of rendered chimneys flanking centre bay, similar chimneystack to centre of return, timber rafters exposed at eaves of front block, cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Two-over-two timber sash windows to front block with stone sills, some remaining in return, stair window to south-west of return replaced by single glass pane. Segmental arch to former main entrance with blind smooth-rendered tympanum over timber entrance screen having glazed double-leaf doors with single-pane overlight, flanked by decorative mullions and one-over-one sashes to side lights. Interior folding shutters to windows, stone flags to ground floor of return. Detached two-storey outbuilding to north with extension to north side. Hipped recent corrugated metal roof, rendered chimneystack, and rubble stone walls with one large segmental arch opening. Recent timber doors and windows. Outbuilding to west of house return attached to rubble stone wall running westwards, stone piers at west end of wall flanking south approach to yard.
Appraisal
A symmetrical, hipped roofed, regularly proportioned house of a prevailing type traditionally used for glebes or substantial farmhouses. The house retains many original features and presents a well composed symmetrical elevation seen across parkland from the road. The house replaced an earlier building some of which may have been integrated into the main front block. Together with its parkland setting the house contributes significantly to the architectural character of the area.
St. Anne’s (also Thornhill), Clontarf, Dublin – ‘lost’
St. Anne’s, Dublin entrance front with garden party 1912, Gillman Collection, 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.
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. 252. “(Guinness, Bt/PB; Plunket, B/PB) The most palatial house to be built in Ireland during second half of C19; on the northern shore of Dublin Bay, approached by a long, straight avenue which crossed over a public road on its way. The original Georgian house here, known as Thornhill, was pulled down ca 1850 by Benjamin Guinness, afterwards the 1st Bt, head of the Guinness Brewery, and an Italianate house by Millard of Dublin built in its stead. Then, ca 1880, Sir Benjamin’s son Arthur, 1st and last Lord Ardilaun, doubled thehouse in size and made it into a palace comparable to the best of the mansions being built at that period in the USA by people such as the Vanderbilts, in taste no less than in grandeur… The architect of the building was James Franklin Fuller, the work being completed by George Ashlin…In the gardens, which were regarded as beautiful even by those who, like Lennox Robinson, thought the ouse too pretentious, there was a lakeside temple and a long clipped alley lined with statues. …When Lady Ardilaun died, 1925, St. Anne’s was inherited by her husband’s nephew, the Most Rev Hon Benjamin Plunket, former Bishop of Meath. Lady Gregory noted how Mrs Plunket was “very anxious to do what is right for Ireland by keeping up the place, 17 labourers paid every Saturday.” In 1939, however, St. Anne’s was acquired by Dublin Corporation, and in 1943, when it was being used as an ARP store – wits said as a store for firelighting equipment – the house was partially gutted by fire. It stood derelict until 1968, when it was completely demolished.”
Arthur Guinness (1768-1855) by Martin Cregan, courtesy of Adam’s auction 13 Oct 2015. Provenance: St. Annes, Clontarf, and by descent in the family. Arthur Guinness of Beaumont, J.P. (1768-1855), courtesy of National Gallery of Ireland.
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. 65. “…Rich interior; entrance hall with Roman Ionic columns leading to a vast top-lit inner hall, wiht a gallery supported on Roman Ionic columns. To the right was the imperial main staircase in marble and on the left a palm court. The house was further enlarged to the design of George Ashlin who also designed the stables…”
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. “(Riall/LGI1958) A High Victorian Tudor-Gothic house by Sir Charles Lanyon and William Henry Lynn, built ca 1860 for Phineas Riall. The house, which has steeply pointed gables and rectangular mullioned windows with trefoil-headed lights, is more Gothic than Tudor, with decidedly ecclesiastical air; in fact the grouping of elements, the rather squashed church porch, the fleche, the odd little buttresses, is rather reminiscent of Lanon’s and Lynn’s Unitarian church on Stephen’s Green in Dublin. The interior of the house is sombrely rich: panelling, carved woodwork, elaborately moulded ceilings and stained glass.”
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. 87. “A delightful Ruskinian Gothic villa, almost certainly by Sir Thomas Newenham Deane, and possibly designed by his brilliant younger partner, Benjamin Woodward. Built 1860-2 for James Lawson, a lawyer. Of two storeys, or, more precisely, a basement and an attic; the principal rooms being in the attic, which is in fact a piano-nobile, rising into a very high roof, and lit by trefoil-headed windows in the gables; Dr Girouard sees this arrangement as that of the familiar singe-storey-over-basement late-Georgian Dublin villa translated into High-Victorian Gothic. Of stone, with a certain amount of brick polychromy. Main entrance under wooden trellised veranda. Long conservatory with twisted Gothic columns of cast iron. High rooms, with sloping beamed ceilings under the roofs; the walls of the principal rooms frescoed by John Hungerford Pollen 1862, with pre-Raphaelite scenes of a knight and his lady, and The Seven Ages of Woman. Pollen also painted the spaces between the beams with birds, flowers and foliage, with backgrounds of blue and terracotta. Sold by the Lawsons earlier this century, subsequently the home of Judge Quinn.”
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. 265. “(Cleland/LGI1912) An earlier house rebuilt as a large Scottish Baronial castle 1858 by the Belfast architect, Thomas Turner, with a ta tower reminiscent of the Prince Consort’s tower at Balmoral Castle. Classical interior. Subsequently the official residence of the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland; the Northern Ireland Parliament house having been built on the grounds.”
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. 220. “(Craig-Laurie, sub Birney/LG1952; Wallace/LGI1912) A castle built ca 1850s by Rowland Craig-Laurie with plain, rendered walls and none of the pseudo-medieval detail which one would expect in a castellated house of its period; relying for its effect on the skilful grouping of its elements.
Dominated by a tall, four-storey entrance tower, containing nothing but stairs, with a round turret at the other side of the front.
Very simple battlements; rectangular windows, some with unobtrusive mullions.”
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. 93. “(Mulholland, Dunleath, B/PB) A restrained Classical house on the shores of Belfast Lough, built ca 1852 for John Mulholland, afterwards 1st Lord Dunleath, to the design of the Belfast architect Thomas Turner. Top-lit central hall with a circular gallery and a glazed dome. now a golf club.”
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.79. “(Annesley, E/PB; Annesley, sub Sowerby/LG1972) Although the Annesley family bought the Castlewellan estate 1741, they did not build themselves a mansion here until more than a century later; living either in the Grange, a pleasant group of C18 farm and stable buildings around three courtyards; or at Castlewellan Cottage, a single-storey Georgian house with projecting wings and a Venetian doorway. In 1856 the young 4th Earl Annesley began building a castle, to the design of William Burn, which was completed in 1858. It is a large and somewhat austere granite pile; of three storeys plus an attic of dormer-gables, and with a massive four storey tower at one side; at the opposite side there is a rather slender round tower and turret. Plain rectangular windows. The demesne is of great beauty, and contains a famous arboretum. Inherited by Mr Gerald Sowerby (nephew of 6th Earl), who assumed the name of Annesley; sold by him to the Northern Ireland Government ca. 1965. The demesne is now a forest park.”
Castlewellan Castle, Co Down, photograph by Robert French, (between ca. 1865-1914), Lawrence Photograph Collection, National Library of Ireland.Castlewellan Castle, Co Down, photograph by Robert French, (between ca. 1865-1914), Lawrence Photograph Collection, National Library of Ireland.Castlewellan Castle, Co Down, photograph by Robert French, (between ca. 1865-1914), Lawrence Photograph Collection, National Library of Ireland.
By the late mediaeval period, the lands now occupied by the Castlewellan estate in County Down had come into the possession of the Magennis family. In 1542 Donal Óg Magennis travelled to London where he received a knighthood from Henry VIII at Greenwich Palace. At the time he was living in the area of Castlewellan, and although the precise location of his residence is unknown, it may have been on one of the islands of the lake lying directly below the present castle. In his account of a journey through this part of Ulster in 1602-3, Captain Josias Bodley wrote ‘We now came to the island of Magennis [Castlewellan] where, alighting from our horses, we met Master Morrison, with many others. They had tarried there, at least three hours, expecting our arrival, and in the meantime drank ale and usquebaugh with the Lady Sara, the daughter of Tyrone, and wife of the aforesaid Magennis, a truly beautiful woman. We also drank twice or thrice, and after we had duly kissed her, we each prepared for our journey.’ The beautiful Lady Sara mentioned here was a daughter of Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone and wife of Sir Arthur Magennis, later created first Viscount Iveagh. During the course of the 17th century and its many upheavals, somehow the Magennises managed to retain their lands at Castlewellan and indeed, descendants of the family remained there until 1741 when penury required that it be offered at public auction, where the freehold was bought by one William Annesley, a Dublin-based barrister and Member of Parliament whose family had already been leasing the property.
Created first Baron Annesley and later Viscount Glerawly, William Annesley was the great-grandson of Francis Annesley, first Viscount Valentia, who had moved to Ireland in the first decade of the 17th century and was involved in the Ulster Plantations. Three years before buying the Castlewellan estate, William had married Lady Anne Beresford, a daughter of the Earl of Tyrone. Mrs Delany, who knew the couple well (her husband, Dr Patrick Delany, being Dean of Down), wrote ‘’they are very rich and know it, and spend their lives in increasing not enjoying their fortune; but he is a very honest man in all his dealings, still would be more agreeable as well as more useful if he thought less of his possessions. His lady suits him exactly; she does not want sense, and is comical enough in a satirical way.’ The couple made Castlewellan their principal country residence, building a house south-west of the present building, as well as the Grange, an extensive series of outbuildings, most of which still survive: while walking around the estate in 1758, Mrs Delany declared them ‘indeed very fine. Three large courts: round the first, which is arched round a kind of’ piazza, are houses for all his carriages and over them his granaries; the next court are stables and cow houses, and over them haylofts; the third court two such barns as I ncver saw, floored with oak and finished in the most convenient manner for all the purposes of winnowing etc and in that court are the stands for hay and corn.’ What form the main house took is unknown, since it was replaced by Annesley’s heir Francis (created first Earl Annesley in 1789), the new residence being called Castlewellan Cottage, a long single-storey (or single-storey over basement) building with shallow end bows. This remained the family’s home until 1851 when the estate was inherited by William Richard Annesley, the fourth earl, who commissioned a new mansion from the Scottish architect William Burn. The latter’s patron did not have long to enjoy his new residence, however, since he died in 1874 at the age of 44 still unmarried and so both the title and Castlewellan estate accordingly passed to his younger brother, Lt-Col Hugh Annesley, who had hitherto had a career in the army but now settled to live in County Down where he was a pioneering photographer and, like his sibling before him, an ardent gardener (see In Circles « The Irish Aesthete). It was during the second half of the 19th century that Castlewellan’s exceptional arboretum became established, its collection of some 3,000 species of rare trees, plants and shrubs being among the finest in Ireland. Unfortunately the sixth earl died in 1914 at the age of 30 and responsibility for Castlewellan passed to his eldest sister Lady Mabel Annesley, who in 1927 transferred it to her son Gerald Francis Sowerby (who took the Annesley surname) at the time of his first marriage. He retained the property until 1967 when it was acquired by the Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture. Two years later the grounds were opened as a forest park, but the house itself remained empty and suffered from a terrorist attack in 1973. It was subsequently leased to a Christian organisation which since then has used the building as a retreat and conference centre
By the time he was commissioned to design Castlewellan, William Burn had already worked for a number of Irish clients, being responsible for the likes of Muckross House, County Kerry (see Institutionalised « The Irish Aesthete) and Bangor Castle, County Down (see Uncertain Future II « The Irish Aesthete). Built at a cost of just over £18,000 and standing on a terrace above the lake with dense woodland to the rear, granite-faced Castlewellan has, as noted by Philip Smith, a somewhat institutional air. The potentially monotonous south-facing five-bay garden front, of three storeys with dormer attic windows, is relieved at either end by a four-stage square tower to the east and a five-stage circular tower to the west, both these carrying bartizans. The west front side shows more variety, with a four-storey gabled bay at the northern end and, attached to this, a slender round turret with pitched roof. There was formerly a conservatory on this side, which may explain the rather odd first-floor bow window found here. The main entrance is on the east side, another stocky square tower with bartizans and battlements. Directly above the doorcase of dressed stone is a tablet carrying the Annesley armorials. Immediately inside the door is a steep flight of stairs, not unlike that found in the Brownslow House, Lurgan (see This Beautiful Mansion « The Irish Aesthete). Unlike the latter property, however, in this instance and stairs lead to a galleried central hall, this space lit by a series of windows on the north side. Off the hall and facing south are the principal reception rooms – drawing room, library and dining room – all with the same Jacobethan ceilings. The library still has its elaborately carved bookcases but otherwise almost all the original decoration, and furnishings, are no longer in the building. The main staircase, located off the west end of the hall, was badly damaged when Castlewellan was bombed in 1973 with the loss of its window’s armorial glass. Upstairs, most of the bedrooms are now used as dormitories for the religious organisation’s retreats. While the present decor may not be to everyone’s taste, it is important to appreciate that the building is being well maintained and kept in good repair, ensuring, unlike so many other such properties in Ireland, that Castlewellan survives into the future.
Carrigrohane, County Cork, 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. 59. “[Wallis, Hoare, Bt of Annabella] A C19 castellated house incorporating part of an old castle of the Barrett family on a crag above the River Lee. The estate was subsequently owned by the Wallis family, from whom it passed by marriage to the Hoares in late C18; the castle was a ruin for many years before it was built into the present house; which has a front of 3 storeys behind the battlements; and large mullioned windows with round-headed lights. Carrigrohane Castle features in a recent book of highly evocative reminiscences, The Road to Glenamore, by M. Jesse Hoare.”
The Buildings of Ireland. Cork City and County. Frank Keohane. Yale University Press: New Haven and London. 2020.
The fortified houses of the late C16 and early C17 constitute a bridge between the medieval tower house and the modern mansion. They were built by old Norman families, at Castle Lyons and Ightermurragh (Ladysbridge); by city merchants, such as the Archdeacons at Monkstown; by English settlers, at Baltimore, Coppinger’s Court (Rosscarbery) and Mallow; and by Gaelic chiefs, at Coolnalong (Durrus), Mount Long (Oysterhaven), Kanturk, Dromaneen (Mallow) and Reendiseart (Ballylickey). Twenty-two such houses survive in Cork.
In comparison to tower houses, these houses are better lit, have thinner walls, lack vaults, and feature timber floors and staircases as well as integral fireplaces. They are also notably symmetrical in plan and elevation, and some, such as Kanturk, incorporate proto-classical features. They generally retain some defensive features, such as door yetts, gunloops, bartizans and crenellated parapets, [p. 18] although their wall-walks were not all continuous, and in cases such as Mount Long and Monkstown were barely accessible. The other notable feature is the use of towers or turrets, influenced no doubt by the Elizabethan fashion for a quasi-military appearance derived from an earlier chivalric age. The arrangement of the towers gives rise to distinctive plan-forms: U plan (Coolnalong), Y-plan (Mallow and Coppinger’s court), L-plan (Dromaneen (Mallow) and Mossgrove (Templemartin), cross-plan (Kilmaclenine, Ightermurragh), X-plan (Kanturk, Monkstown, Mount Long, Aghadown), Z-plan (Ballyannan (Midleton), and T-Plan (Reendiseart). Baltimore, Carrigrohane, Castle Lyons, Myrtle Grove (Youghal) and Castlemartyr aer simple rectangular blocks. A number of Jacobean bawns with circular corner towers also survive, at Ballinterry (Rathcormac), Dromiscane (Millstreet), Dromagh, Clonmeen (Banteer) and Mossgrove.”
[no image] Detached four-bay three-storey over basement and with dormer attic house, built c.1850, incorporating fabric of an earlier building. Five-bay north elevation. Pitched slate roofs with battlements, gabled dormers, gablets and rendered chimneystacks. Ashlar limestone and rendered walls having string courses and corner bartizans to south-west and north-east corners. Square-headed openings with carved limestone tracery and label mouldings. Pair of timber panelled doors with strap hinges, approached by flight of limestone steps.
Appraisal
Dramatically sited on a rocky outcrop overlooking the Lee Valley, this building is an eye-catching addition to the surrounding landscape. Built on the site of an early seventeenth century fortified house built by the Barrett family, Windele noted in the early 1840s that only its walls remained. It is thought to have been restored by Deane and Woodward from 1849-50. It was occupied at the time by the McSwiney family, a local mill owning family who due to financial constraints, were soon forced to return the fully restored castle to the owners, the Hoare family.
A fortified house that came into the possession of the Hoare family through marriage with a member of the Baker family in the 1770s. In 1786 Wilson refers to Carrigrohan as the seat of Mr. Colthurst. Reconstructed in the 1830s by Augustus Robert McSweeny, a corn merchant, who also leased the floor mills nearby. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation Jane McSweeny was resident. The Castle later reverted back to the Hoares who owned it until the 1940s. They are mentioned by the Irish Tourist Association survey as resident there. It is still extant and was sold in 2017.
Carrigrohane Castle, the Co Cork former childhood family home of convicted fraudster Breifne O’Brien, has been put up for sale, ending more than 40 years of occupation by the O’Brien family.
The 400-year-old Tudor-style castle at the end of the Carrigrohane Road appeared without fanfare on a property website at the weekend, with a ‘price on application’ legend attached to its briefest of descriptions.
It is likely to be floated at about €2.5m, according to sources, though its named selling agent Michael Burns yesterday declined to comment publicly on the family’s plans for its sale.
It has been owned since the early 1970s by businessman and property investor Leo O’Brien and his wife Mary, who reared their children — including sons Breifne and broadcaster/journalist Daire O’Brien — within its walls and around its woodland walks.
Mr O’Brien owned valuable building investments on South Mall and Academy Street (now part of Opera Lane).
It’s understood that disgraced investor Breifne O’Brien held his wedding at Carrigrohane Castle to Dublin PR adviser and society figure Fiona Nagle in the in the mid-2000s, just before he was exposed in 2008 as having conned friends and family out of millions of euro to fund his extravagant lifestyle and run his own mansion homes.
Historic Carrigrohane Castle was brought back from a ruin in the 1830s and was largely rebuilt and maintained since. It is possibly the most dramatically-sited home in and around Cork City, on a high cliff overlooking the River Lee, between Ballincollig and the city.
For centuries, it dominated the skyline, looking out towards Muskerry, imperial over all it surveyed. At one stage, the demesne lands associated with the castle would have run to 1,500 acres, from the Model Farm Road to the eastern end of Ballincollig.
Now, the castle stands on a still-impressive and private 16 acres, half of it shielding woodland, and half in pasture and let out for farming use. The land and property offered for sale includes an entrance lodge by St Peter’s Church on Churchill Hill, and a guest house by a tennis court within the grounds.
The daft.ie property web listing says the castellated home has 6,500sq ft, with six bedrooms, and three bathrooms, and has all of the sort of features one would expect in a proper castle, with battlements, stone carvings, enormous fireplaces (but also oil central heating), gabled dormers, hefty internal beams and dark timbers, slate roof and look-out vantage points.
At one stage, the Muskerry tram would have passed under this craggily-set Corkleo castle, and a rockfall about 35 years ago on a section of cliff face caused the closure of the Carrigrohane Road for a period.
Annaly Lodge, Drimmeen, Broadford, County Clare for sale Oct 2022, photographs courtesy Michael Dorgan Auctioneers & Valuers
V94 XC9P €1,200,000 6 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms
Annaly Lodge, Drimmeen, Broadford, County Clare for sale Oct 2022, photographs courtesy Michael Dorgan Auctioneers & Valuers.Annaly Lodge, Drimmeen, Broadford, County Clare for sale Oct 2022, photographs courtesy Michael Dorgan Auctioneers & Valuers.
4 Bedroom Victorian Hunting Lodge & additional Coach House and Guest Cottage on C.22acres of Land – C.8.88ha Michael Dorgan Auctioneers & Valuers are privileged to present this magnificent opportunity to purchase this spectacular Victorian Hunting Lodge in magnificent grounds in a magical and tranquil woodland setting. Annaly Lodge is a delightful late 19th century two storey cut stone Gothic style home completely restored throughout. It is situated in the beautiful rural countryside, between the Slieve Aughty and Slieve Barnagh mountains in a totally unspoilt area surrounded by many lakes. The property was designed as a gentleman’s hunting residence by Lieutenant Col. Charles William White (Lord Annaly), who was a very popular MP for Tipperary. It stands on approx. 22 acres of grounds with sweeping lawns all surrounded by a marvellous variety of broad leafed and evergreen trees with a huge variety of shrubs, mainly rhododendron azaleas etc. The property is surrounded by approx.1800 acres of natural forest which attracts wild deer and a variety of flora and fauna. It is an ideal place to get away from it all yet it is within easy driving distance of airport and cities. The property has absolute peace and privacy and all this together with the spectacular surrounding countryside makes Annaly Lodge a very appealing place to live. It is located 2 miles from Broadford village (R465), 15 miles from Limerick City and 38 min drive from Shannon airport.
Annaly Lodge, Drimmeen, Broadford, County Clare for sale Oct 2022, photographs courtesy Michael Dorgan Auctioneers & Valuers.Annaly Lodge, Drimmeen, Broadford, County Clare for sale Oct 2022, photographs courtesy Michael Dorgan Auctioneers & Valuers.Annaly Lodge, Drimmeen, Broadford, County Clare for sale Oct 2022, photographs courtesy Michael Dorgan Auctioneers & Valuers.Annaly Lodge, Drimmeen, Broadford, County Clare for sale Oct 2022, photographs courtesy Michael Dorgan Auctioneers & Valuers.Annaly Lodge, Drimmeen, Broadford, County Clare for sale Oct 2022, photographs courtesy Michael Dorgan Auctioneers & Valuers.Annaly Lodge, Drimmeen, Broadford, County Clare for sale Oct 2022, photographs courtesy Michael Dorgan Auctioneers & Valuers.Annaly Lodge, Drimmeen, Broadford, County Clare for sale Oct 2022, photographs courtesy Michael Dorgan Auctioneers & Valuers.Annaly Lodge, Drimmeen, Broadford, County Clare for sale Oct 2022, photographs courtesy Michael Dorgan Auctioneers & Valuers.Annaly Lodge, Drimmeen, Broadford, County Clare for sale Oct 2022, photographs courtesy Michael Dorgan Auctioneers & Valuers.Annaly Lodge, Drimmeen, Broadford, County Clare for sale Oct 2022, photographs courtesy Michael Dorgan Auctioneers & Valuers.Annaly Lodge, Drimmeen, Broadford, County Clare for sale Oct 2022, photographs courtesy Michael Dorgan Auctioneers & Valuers.
Accommodation
Accommodation Approximately 515.7 m2 (5,551 sq ft) The Victorian property was built in the 1850s as a hunting lodge for the White family. Today, the stone-cut house has been extended, restored and modified to suit 21st century tastes while being mindful to retain the integrity and spirit of the original period features throughout. The house presents itself as a wonderful family home with superb bright spacious reception rooms, decorated with taste to enhance period features and take in the exceptional outdoors. Numerous bay windows and glass door lead to gardens and grounds from almost every room The kitchen is modern and airy, and a large sunroom has replaced a yard to the side of the house and links it to a renovated coach yard building. The layout at Annaly Lodge is wonderful for everyday family living or entertaining on a large scale. The property includes Ground floor: • Porch • Hall • WC • Drawing Room • Study • Family Dining Room • Pantry area • Reception/ Family Room • Modern fitted Kitchen • Rear hall • Laundry/ Utility Room • Very large conservatory that leads to a two-storey converted Coach House First floor: • Master bedroom with ensuite bathroom • Bedroom 2 with ensuite shower room • Bedroom 3 • Bedroom 4 • Bedroom 3 and 4 with shared bathroom • Rear staircase • Linen room Throughout the gardens are fine features including a stone fountain, gazebo, natural pond with decking, BBQ hut, fire pit, numerous sunny terraces and seating area dotted throughout the grounds. Amazing natural playgrounds for children or just to sit, relax and watch the ever-changing vistas or the extensive wildlife that pop in to visit. Coach House off Sunroom • Living Room. • Bedroom. • Ensuite. Guest Cottage • Living Room. • Kitchen. • Bedroom. • Bathroom.
Annaly Lodge, Drimmeen, Broadford, County Clare for sale Oct 2022, photographs courtesy Michael Dorgan Auctioneers & Valuers.Annaly Lodge, Drimmeen, Broadford, County Clare for sale Oct 2022, photographs courtesy Michael Dorgan Auctioneers & Valuers.Annaly Lodge, Drimmeen, Broadford, County Clare for sale Oct 2022, photographs courtesy Michael Dorgan Auctioneers & Valuers.Annaly Lodge, Drimmeen, Broadford, County Clare for sale Oct 2022, photographs courtesy Michael Dorgan Auctioneers & Valuers.Annaly Lodge, Drimmeen, Broadford, County Clare for sale Oct 2022, photographs courtesy Michael Dorgan Auctioneers & Valuers.
Features
• This property is not listed with Heritage society. • OFCH. • Broadband. • Septic tank. • Well Water. • CCTV Viewing monitor & Alarm. • Stone pier entrance with electric gates. • Large natural pond with decking and BBQ hut. • Broadford 3km. • Limerick 23km. • Ennis 29km. • Shannon Airport 30km. • Galway 87 km • Dublin 202km • Cork 131km
Annaly Lodge, Drimmeen, Broadford, County Clare for sale Oct 2022, photographs courtesy Michael Dorgan Auctioneers & Valuers.Annaly Lodge, Drimmeen, Broadford, County Clare for sale Oct 2022, photographs courtesy Michael Dorgan Auctioneers & Valuers.Annaly Lodge, Drimmeen, Broadford, County Clare for sale Oct 2022, photographs courtesy Michael Dorgan Auctioneers & Valuers.Annaly Lodge, Drimmeen, Broadford, County Clare for sale Oct 2022, photographs courtesy Michael Dorgan Auctioneers & Valuers.Annaly Lodge, Drimmeen, Broadford, County Clare for sale Oct 2022, photographs courtesy Michael Dorgan Auctioneers & Valuers.Annaly Lodge, Drimmeen, Broadford, County Clare for sale Oct 2022, photographs courtesy Michael Dorgan Auctioneers & Valuers.
BER Details
BER: Exempt
Directions
Annaly Lodge is located near the village of Broadford a picturesque village in the verdant Glenomra Valley tucked in at the foot of Slieve Bearnagh and Slieve Aughty mountains on the majestic Lough Doon. The village is situated on the R466 the road from Killaloe to Ennis. The village has schools, a church, 2 pubs and a shop for daily needs. The local primary school is excellent and is one of a few rural schools in Ireland to have been awarded a grant to improve play and sport facilities for the children. The numerous rivers and lakes to include the famous Lough Derg are an angler’s paradise. Clare is home to some beautiful scenery and natural beauty, which include the Burren, the Cliffs of Moher and the attractive Heritage Town o Killaloe situated at the mouth of Lough Derg on the River Shannon. Ennis the county town to Clare, is just a 20-minute drive away and offers a wide range of shops, amenities and restaurants that will cater for all. The M18 motorway to Limerick or Galway is within 15 minutes’ drive, and Shannon Airport can be reached in 25 minutes. There are several good primary and secondary schools within easy reach and less than an hour away is the renowned Glenstal Abbey School.
This property is being offered for Sale by private treaty. Terms are available and to be negotiated on application with agents: Michael Dorgan Auctioneers & Valuers Baldwin Street Mitchelstown Co. Cork (025) 85700
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