County Tipperary

Noan, Thurles, Co Tipperary 

by jenjunebug

Noan, Thurles, Co Tipperary 

Mark Bence-Jones. A Guide to Irish Country Houses (originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978); Revised edition 1988 Constable and Company Ltd, London.

p. 226. “Taylor/LGI1912; Armitage/IFR) A two storey five bay late-Georgian house. Doorway with large fanlight above 4 engaged Doric columns of stone.” 

https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/22205409/noan-house-noan-tipperary-south

Detached five-bay two-storey country house, built c. 1810, having slightly projecting central breakfront, to front of multiple-bay three-storey earlier block with four-bay three-storey earliest possibly seventeenth-century block at right angles to latter and having one-bay two-storey lean-to addition and further multiple-bay two-storey block at right angles to four-bay block. Hipped slate roof to front block with overhanging sheeted eaves. Pitched slate roofs to earlier blocks, slate cat slide roof to lean-to addition. Rendered chimneys throughout, earliest block having stout stack. Painted rendered walls, with moulded rendered eaves course to front block. Square-headed openings throughout with timber sliding sash windows and tooled limestone sills. Front block has six-over-six pane to first floor, nine-over-six pane to ground floor and tripartite to gables. Six-over-six pane to rear blocks, with three-over-three pane to top floor of earliest block. Entrance comprising round-headed opening with elaborate beaded cobweb fanlight, timber panelled double doors with flanking Doric pilasters having fluted frieze and ashlar limestone entablature, two-over-two pane flanking timber sidelights, accessed by flight of limestone steps. Courtyard of fine outbuildings to south and gates and gate lodge to north. 

Appraisal 

The form and structure of this house is typical of classically inspired Georgian buildings, with its regular façade and rhythmically spaced bays. The breakfront gives the house a central focus whilst adding further interest to the façade. The overhanging eaves gives the house an air of grandeur and emphasises the horizontal, whilst the diminishing windows accentuate the vertical thrust. The house is especially notable for its highly ornate doorway with skilfully carved limestone steps. The decorative spoked fanlight with delicate beading has an unusually broad span which is balanced by the finely carved Doric pilasters and fluted entablature. The multi-period nature of this house makes it a building of considerable historic and archaeological as well as architectural interest. Detached five-bay two-storey country house, built c. 1810, having slightly projecting central breakfront, to front of multiple-bay three-storey earlier block with four-bay three-storey earliest possibly seventeenth-century block at right angles to latter and having one-bay two-storey lean-to addition and further multiple-bay two-storey block at right angles to four-bay block. Hipped slate roof to front block with overhanging sheeted eaves. Pitched slate roofs to earlier blocks, slate cat slide roof to lean-to addition. Rendered chimneys throughout, earliest block having stout stack. Painted rendered walls, with moulded rendered eaves course to front block. Square-headed openings throughout with timber sliding sash windows and tooled limestone sills. Front block has six-over-six pane to first floor, nine-over-six pane to ground floor and tripartite to gables. Six-over-six pane to rear blocks, with three-over-three pane to top floor of earliest block. Entrance comprising round-headed opening with elaborate beaded cobweb fanlight, timber panelled double doors with flanking Doric pilasters having fluted frieze and ashlar limestone entablature, two-over-two pane flanking timber sidelights, accessed by flight of limestone steps. Courtyard of fine outbuildings to south and gates and gate lodge to north. 

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

Originally the home of the Taylor family, Wilson refers to Noan as the seat of Godfrey Taylor in 1786. It was occupied by Natt. Taylor in 1814 and recorded by Lewis as the seat of the Taylor family. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey Name Books refer to Mary Phelps as the proprietor of Noan House. By the mid 19th century it was occupied by the representatives of John Bagwell and held in fee. The buildings were valued at almost £30. The sale rental of 1853 records James Chadwick as tenant on a seven year lease. A lithograph of the house is included. Occupied by Dr Armitage in the 1870s who owned over 2,000 acres in the county. It is still extant and occupied.  

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Armitage of Farnley Hall and Noan House 

During the 18th century, James Armitage (1730-1803) built a substantial fortune as a wool merchant in Leeds. He lived most of his life at Hunslet, in the suburbs of the city, but by the 1790s he was looking round for a country estate. He considered several properties, and was outbid for an estate in the North Riding, before settling on the acquisition of Farnley Hall, south-west of Leeds (not to be confused with Farnley Hall near Otley, home of the Fawkes family) for which he paid £49,500 in 1799. The house was then a modest but relatively recent building of the 1750s, and James seems not to have made any changes before he died in 1803. He was succeeded by his son, Edward Armitage (1764-1829), who apparently built a large and much grander new south range onto the house, and in 1806, when this was completed, he sold his house in South Parade, Leeds and moved in. Edward was no doubt also responsible for landscaping the existing park in the first years of his ownership.

Although brought up to be a wool merchant like his father, Edward withdrew from his partnership with Neriah and Joseph Gomersall in 1804 and devoted himself to farming and agricultural improvement. He became a Vice-President of the Wharfedale Agricultural Society and won several prizes at the Society’s shows for his livestock. He also fought a constant battle with poachers on his estate, which being so close to a large city was especially vulnerable. In 1829, at the relatively young age of 65, Edward died suddenly while visiting his eldest son, who was then living at Breckenborough Place near Thirsk. By his will, he left his estate to his widow, Sarah Armitage (1768-1847) for life, and gave her power to determine how it should be apportioned between their four surviving sons. Until 1843 she let Farnley Hall to her husband’s nephew, John William Rhodes, and when she died she established an unusual arrangement by which her four sons were tenants in common of the Farnley estate.  

In 1844 the four brothers, who appear to have recovered possession of the Hall in that year, came together as partners in the Farnley Iron Works to exploit the coal, iron and fireclay resources found on the estate; the iron ore found on their property was thought to be some of the highest quality in the country. It was probably James Armitage (1793-1872) and his brother William (1798-1883), who after their mother’s death occupied Farnley Hall, who were the active partners in the firm. John Leathley Armitage (1792-1870) and Edward Armitage (1796-1878) were partners in the Cheltenham & Gloucestershire Bank from 1836 and lived in Cheltenham. The Farnley Iron Works expanded rapidly and from 1850 they family developed a new village to house their workers at New Farnley. The Armitages saw themselves as having the paternalistic responsibilities of rural gentry to all the inhabitants of their estate. They supported the establishment of a new national school in 1845 and built their own factory school in 1850 when the growth of New Farnley expanded the population. This had a cricket club, a reading room and library, a penny savings bank and a sickness and burial society associated with it. The family thus made a conscious effort to create a thriving community at Farnley.

… 
During the years when Farnley Hall was let in the 1830s and 1840s, James Armitage (1793-1872) lived abroad, first in France and later in Germany. His children were educated on the Continent, and his eldest son, Edward Armitage (1817-96) attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and became an artist, finding recognition in the respected genre of history painting.

He returned to England in 1848 and became a Royal Academician in 1872. He married a fellow-artist, and the couple set up a slightly unconventional household in St John’s Wood; they had no children but adopted several old ladies who came to live in their household and were known as ‘Armitage’s mothers’. Edward’s younger brother, Thomas Rhodes Armitage (1824-90), was educated at the Sorbonne in Paris and later graduated from Kings College, London as a doctor of medicine. After working in field hospitals in the Crimea in the 1850s, he returned home and established a fashionable West End practice in London, but by 1866 his sight had deteriorated to the point where he could no longer continue to work in the profession. He devoted the rest of his life to improving the lot of the blind and partially sighted, promoting the adoption of Braille and the provision of employment opportunities (including piano tuning) for the blind, and founding the Royal National College for the Blind, which he supported for many years with his own money. His wife, Harriet Black, brought him the Noan estate in Co. Tipperary, and the couple divided their time between London and Noan. Of their three children, the elder son, Walter Stanley Armitage (1860-1902) became a doctor like his father, and the daughter, Alice Stanley Armitage (1869-1949) continued her father’s work as a promoter and supporter of charities for the blind, but it was the younger son, Frederick Rhodes Armitage (1867-1952) who inherited the Noan estate and farmed there throughout the troubled years of the early 20th century. Although obliged to part with his tenanted lands in 1922 under the land reforms of the Irish government, much of the estate was always kept in hand, and Noan remained a viable estate throughout the 20th century. In 1952, both of his surviving sons having been killed in the Second World War, it passed to his unmarried daughter, Doris Mary Rhodes Armitage (1900-79), who continued to live at Noan with her spinster sister until her death, when the estate was sold….

Noan House:

A complex house, with an elegant white stuccoed five bay, two-storey front range built in about 1810, presumably for Nathaniel Taylor, with an older three-storey range behind and parallel to it, and a yet older four bay, three-storey range at right-angles to the latter. The front range has sash windows, a hipped slate roof with broad overhanging eaves, and a fine central doorcase with an elaborate cobweb fanlight. The oldest part of the house could date from the 17th century, but has few remaining original features as the fenestration has all been renewed in the early 19th century.  

The grounds were landscaped in the early 19th century, and the planting broadly survives, although the layout has been somewhat simplified. The estate was expanded in the 19th century, and in 1876 amounted to some 2,019 acres; this was reduced again by the sale of the tenanted farms in 1922. 
 
Descent: Granted 1666 to Nathaniel Taylor (1611-75); to son, Robert Taylor; to son, Lovelace Taylor (d. 1760); to son, Nathaniel Taylor (d. 1775); to brother, Godfrey Taylor (1723-99); to son Edward Taylor (d. 1801); to son, Nathaniel Taylor (d. 1828); to sister, Anne, wife of John Bagwell (later Taylor) of Kilmore; sold by Incumbered Estates Court 1853 to Stanley Black; to daughter, Harriet (d. 1901), wife of Thomas Rhodes Armitage (1824-90); to son, Frederick Rhodes Armitage (1867-1952); to daughter, Doris Mary Rhodes Armitage (1900-79); sold after her death to Eddie Grant…sold c.2010 to Mr. Hanley.

Oaklands, Clonmel, Co Tipperary 

Mark Bence-Jones. A Guide to Irish Country Houses (originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978); Revised edition 1988 Constable and Company Ltd, London.

Old Castle House, Dungar, Roscrea, Co Tipperary https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/08/24/old-castle-house-dungar-roscrea-co-tipperary/

Ormonde Castle, Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2024/09/05/ormond-castle-carrick-on-suir-county-tipperary-an-opw-property/

Parkstown House, Parkstown, Tipperary North 

Peterfield, (see Johnstown), Co Tipperary 

Portland Park, Lorrha, Co Tipperary https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/02/21/portland-park-lorrha-co-tipperary-ruin/ 

Poulakerry, Co Tipperary 

Prior Park, Borrisokane, Co Tipperary 

Mark Bence-Jones. A Guide to Irish Country Houses (originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978); Revised edition 1988 Constable and Company Ltd, London.

Racecourse Hall, Cashel, Co Tipperary 

Mark Bence-Jones. A Guide to Irish Country Houses (originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978); Revised edition 1988 Constable and Company Ltd, London.

Rapla, Nenagh, Co Tipperary https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/02/21/rapla-nenagh-co-tipperary-ruin/

Rathcoole Castle, Rathcool, County Tipperary 

Rathurles House, Nenagh, Co Tipperary 

Mark Bence-Jones. A Guide to Irish Country Houses (originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978); Revised edition 1988 Constable and Company Ltd, London.

The Rectory, Cahir, Co Tipperary – section 482 https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2024/10/19/the-rectory-cashel-road-cahir-co-tipperary-section-482-accommodation/

Redwood Castle, Lorrha, Co Tipperary E45 HT38 – section 482 https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2024/10/19/redwood-castle-redwood-lorrha-nenagh-north-tipperary-e45-ht38/

Richmond (formerly Killashalloe), Nenagh , Co Tipperary https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/02/21/richmond-formerly-killashalloe-nenagh-co-tipperary/

Riverston House, Nenagh,County Tipperary, E45CD92 

Rochestown House, Cahir, Co Tipperary – lost 

Rockford, Co Tipperary 

Roesborough, Co Tipperary – lost 

Roosca Castle, Co Tipperary – ruin 

Roscrea Castle, Roscrea, Co Tipperary https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2024/10/03/damer-house-and-roscrea-castle-county-tipperary-office-of-public-works-properties/

Rynskaheen, Nenagh, Co Tipperary 

Mark Bence-Jones. A Guide to Irish Country Houses (originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978); Revised edition 1988 Constable and Company Ltd, London.

St. Johnstown Castle, Co Tipperary – demolished 

St. Kierans, Rathcabban, Co. Tipperary 

Salisbury, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary 

Mark Bence-Jones. A Guide to Irish Country Houses (originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978); Revised edition 1988 Constable and Company Ltd, London.

Shanbally Castle, Clogheen, County Tipperary https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/02/21/shanbally-castle-clogheen-county-tipperary/

Shronell House, County Tipperary 

Silversprings House, Clonmel, Co Tipperary – section 482 https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2024/10/19/silversprings-house-clonmel-co-tipperary/

Slevyre (or Slevoir), Borrisokane, Co Tipperary 

Mark Bence-Jones. A Guide to Irish Country Houses (originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978); Revised edition 1988 Constable and Company Ltd, London.

Solsborough (or Solsboro) House, Co Tipperary  https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2024/12/09/solsborough-or-solsboro-house-county-tipperary/

Sopwell Hall, Cloughjordan, Co Tipperary http://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/01/13/sopwell-hall-cloughjordan-co-tipperary/

Suirvale, Cahir, Co Tipperary 

Mark Bence-Jones. A Guide to Irish Country Houses (originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978); Revised edition 1988 Constable and Company Ltd, London.

Summerville, (see Ballingarrane), Co Tipperary 

Swiss Cottage, Cahir, Co. Tipperary – open to public https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/09/07/swiss-cottage-ardfinnan-road-cahir-county-tipperary-office-of-public-works/

Synone Castle, Co Tipperary – ruin 

Templemore Abbey, Co Tipperary https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/02/21/templemore-abbey-co-tipperary/

see https://lordbelmontinnorthernireland.blogspot.com/2018/08/templemore-abbey.html

Templemore House, Co Tipperary – lost 

Thomastown Castle, Golden, Co Tipperary  – ruin https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/02/21/thomastown-castle-golden-co-tipperary-ruin/

Timoney Park, Roscrea, Co Tipperary 

Tinvane, Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary 

Tombrickane Castle, Co Tipperary – ruin 

Traverston, Nenagh, Co Tipperary – lost 

Tullamaine Castle, Fethard,Co Tipperary 

Twomileborris Castle, Co Tipperary – ruin 

Woodruff, Co Tipperary https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/02/21/woodruff-co-tipperary/

Woodville, Templemore, Co Tipperary https://aguidetoirishcountryhouses.com/2025/08/28/woodville-house-templemore-co-tipperary/

Newtown Anner, Clonmel, Co Tipperary 

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Newtown Anner, Clonmel, Co Tipperary 

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.

https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/22207718/newtownanner-house-newtownanner-demesne-tipperary-south

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. 

https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/22207721/newtownanner-house-newtownanner-demesne-tipperary-south

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. 

https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/22207722/newtownanner-house-newtownanner-demesne-tipperary-south

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. 

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

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. 

https://lordbelmontinnorthernireland.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-osborne-baronets.html

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 of  SIR 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.

The Rt Hon George Gideon Oliver Osborne CH, Chancellor of the Exchequer, 2010-16, First Secretary of State, 2015-16, is heir apparent to the baronetcy.

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.

First published in October, 2011.

Mobarnane, Knockbritt, Fethard, Co Tipperary 

by jenjunebug

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 
 
https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/22206207/mobarnan-house-mobarnan-tipperary-south 

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. 

 
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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.   

http://www.mobarnanehouse.com 

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. 

Mount Falcon, Borrisokane, Co Tipperary 

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Mount Falcon, Borrisokane, Co Tipperary 

Mark Bence-Jones. A Guide to Irish Country Houses (originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978); Revised edition 1988 Constable and Company Ltd, London.

p. 213. “(Falkiner/LGI1912) An early C18 house of two storeys over a basement, built 1720 by Richard Falkiner. Five bay front, small floating pediment with ball-finial on peak, round-headed window in tympanum. Partly balustraded roof parapet. Pedimented doorcase with blocking.” 

https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/22401013/mount-falcon-mountfalcon-tipperary-north

Detached T-plan five-bay two-storey over basement house, built in 1720, having dormer attic and three-bay three-storey with attic return, and single- and two-storey additions. Pitched slate main roof and monopitch additions, having cut stone chimneystacks. Ornamented limestone ashlar pediment with marigold paterae and incised date and initials of builder. Partly balustraded parapet having cut stone cornices and ball finials. Front façade rendered in nineteenth century with quoins and hood moulding to windows added. Remainder of walls have lime render. Six-over-six pane timber sash windows with limestone sills, having three-over-three pane round-headed window to pediment, some four-over-eight timber sash windows to return, small-pane casements to gables and to lower floors of return and additions, with some pivoted round windows and some uPVC windows also to return. Cut stone Gibbsian door surround to front entrance with limestone steps over basement, timber panelled door and margined overlight. Partly rendered limestone wall attached to north gable of house, screening farmyard and has castellations, turret, decorative gable to outbuilding and pointed doorway. Farmyard has single- and two-storey stone outbuildings, one having slate roof, and rear screen wall with castellated round-arched gateway. Ruined gate lodge located to main road south-west of house. 

Appraisal 

A large example of an early eighteenth-century T-plan house which, although the appearance of the front façade was altered in the nineteenth century, retains most of its original fabric, form and character. Built by Richard Faulkner, the initials and date ‘RFM 1720’ are carved in the stonework of the pediment to the front façade. Many important features are retained including small-pane timber sash windows, fine cut stone details, and a large rear yard with outbuildings and high stone wall. Significant interior elements survive also. 

 
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Bence Jones writes that this house was built in 1720 by Richard Falkiner. It was the seat of the Falkiner family in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Ordnance Survey Name Books refer to it as the seat of Richard Fitzpatrick Falkiner (a minor) in 1840 and that it was occupied by Obediah Holan. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation the house was valued at £15. It is still extant.   

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

“Relatively few early eighteenth-century houses have survived and remain occupied in Ireland, which makes Mount Falcon all the more precious. It appears to have been built for one Richard Falkiner (b. 1691) whose Yorkshire born father had moved to Ireland. In the pediment of the house’s facade are carved the initials RFM and the date 1720: the latter is the year Richard Falkiner married Maria Rogers whose parents were settled nearby in Ballynavin, County Tipperary. Thus Mount Falcon is presumed to have been built at the time of the Falkiner marraige, although Richard would died just thirteen years later leaving the estate to his twelve-year old heir, also called Richard. Mount Falcon is relatively unsophisticaed in design while showing awareness of contemporary trends in architecture. Of two storeys over semiraised basement and with five bays, it is a relatively shallow house (there is an extension to the rear in a T shape) with broad gables carrying chimneys at either end. The facade is distinguished by a Gibbsian door reached by a flight of limestone steps and at the top of the building a pediment wiht an arched attic window flanked by a shallow paterae, the whole topped by a ball finial (with two more at either frontage). The balustrade and window ornamentation look to be later additions but othersie Mount Falcon is an excellent example of the kind of residence built by members of the Irish gentry once peace settled over the country in the eighteenth century.” 

Mooresfort House, Lattin, County Tipperary 

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Mooresfort House, Lattin, County Tipperary 

Mark Bence-Jones. A Guide to Irish Country Houses (originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978); Revised edition 1988 Constable and Company Ltd, London.

p. 211. “(Moore/IFR) Originally a three storey C18 house, seat of the Moores, which was sold ca 1850 to Charles Moore, MP, a member of a different branch of the family, who completely remodelled it; making it two storeys instead of three, in order to have higher rooms, and giving it a predominantly Victorian character. Five bay entrance front with pediment and porte-cochere; five bay adjoining garden front with single-storey bow. Hall with floor of encaustic tiles open to Victorian staircase of wood. Drawing room with elaborate and graceful plasterwork on flat of ceiling and on frieze; which stylistically seems to belong more to 1820s or 1830s than 1850s. Library with very large architectural bookcase which was probably in the house before it was remodelled, having on it the arms of the branch of the Moores who formerly owned the house. Charming little Victorian chapel, with altar supported by four Archangels. The house stands on one corner of a large and handsome office courtyard. The son of Charles Moore who remodelled the house was Count Arthur Moore, MP, who founded Mount St Joseph Cistercian Abby at Mount Heaton.” 

https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/22206609/mooresfort-house-mooresfort-tipperary-south

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Detached country house, built 1725, having five-bay two-storey front and south-east elevations, five-bay three-storey rear elevation and multiple-bay three-storey north-east elevation. Pedimented breakfront and porte-cochere, canted-bays added c.1855 to south-east elevation and one-, two- and three-storey flat roof extensions added to rear. Hipped slate roof with red brick chimneystacks having carved limestone detailing, cast-iron rainwater goods, overhanging eaves with carved limestone brackets and moulded render band to eaves. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls with decorative render string courses. Front and south-east elevations have square-headed windows to ground and segmental-headed to first floor, all with decorative render surrounds with pilasters and replacement uPVC windows. North-east, yard, elevation has one traceried pointed arch window to centre of second floor with margined lights and square-headed elsewhere with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and one six-over-three pane window to second floor, replacement uPVC elsewhere. with decorative render surrounds. Round-headed window to south-west elevation and pointed arch stained glass window to north-west elevation, all having tooled limestone sills. Doric render pilasters to canted-bays. Segmental-headed door opening with double-leaf timber and glazed door flanked by side lights and timber pilasters, having a fanlight and limestone steps set in a cut and carved limestone portico to entrance. Square-headed door opening with render surround and cornice to south-west elevation with timber panelled door. Ranges of outbuildings adjoining house to north-west, having pitched artificial slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods with bell and weathervane to south-west range. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed door and window openings with mixed timber sash, replacement metal and battened fittings to openings. Segmental-arched openings to north-west range with battened fittings. Round-headed entrance arch to south-west range, entrance gates to north-east of yard with dressed limestone gate piers. Freestanding cast-iron water pump to yard. 

Appraisal 

Built in 1725 as a three-storey structure the house was remodelled in the 1850s by Charles Moore M.P converting the house to a two-storey building in order to have higher rooms. The Italianate remodelling of the house included the addition of an ornate portico and pediment to the front elevation and canted-bay windows flanked by classically influenced pilasters giving the building an overall Victorian character. The decorative stained glass window is due to the addition of a chapel designed by George Ashlin also added about this time. The house retains notable interior features including timber shutters and graceful plasterwork to the drawing room depicting musical instruments. The extensive ranges of outbuildings adjoining the house are still used to serve a working farm, and contribute positively to the over all setting of the house. 

https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/22206610/mooresfort-house-mooresfort-tipperary-south

Detached two-pile three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c. 1855, rear pile being addition, with pedimented breakfront and having single-storey lean-to extension to rear. Pitched slate roof with cut limestone chimneystack to front block and rendered chimneystack to rear, with cast-iron rainwater goods. Ashlar limestone walls with plinth and having carved decorative detail set in recessed panels over windows. Roughcast rendered to gables and painted rubble limestone to rear wall. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone surrounds and sills and replacement aluminium windows. Round-headed door opening with timber battened door and plain fanlight, set into ashlar walling flanked by Doric columns, all supporting entablature and portico. Dressed limestone gate piers and flanking walls with carved limestone capping stones to piers and walls. 

Appraisal 

The Doric columns and pediment creates an imposing entrance to this well-executed gate lodge. This fine gate lodge and gate piers form part of an interesting group of structures on Mooresfort Demesne. 

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The home of the Crosbie Moore family in the 18th and early 19th century, Wilson refers to Moore’s-fort as “the handsome seat of Edward Moore” in 1786. Lewis records Maurice Crosbie Moore as resident in 1837. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation Edward C. Moore was still in possession of Mooresfort. However it was advertised for sale in 1852 and sold to Charles Moore of county Antrim, who altered and remodelled the house, reducing it from a 3 storey to a 2 storey house. The house remained in the possession of this family into the 20th century. It is now the main residence on a working farm.

http://lordbelmontinnorthernireland.blogspot.com/2013/08/mooresfort-house.html

THE MOORES, OF MOORESFORT, WERE MAJOR LANDOWNERS IN COUNTY TIPPERARY, WITH 10,199 ACRES
CHARLES MOORE JP (1804-69), MP for Tipperary, 1865-9, son of Arthur Moore, of Crookedstone, County Antrim, by Mary O’Hara his wife, purchased Mooresfort, County Tipperary.

He married, in 1835, Marian Elizabeth, daughter of John Story, and had issue,

Charles Henry O’Hara, deceased; 
ARTHUR JOHN, of Mooresfort; 
Marian Edith;
Helena Blanche, a nun;
Laura Mary, m  G A Vaughan, nephew of 3rd Earl of Lisburne.

Mr Moore’s younger son,

COUNT ARTHUR JOHN MOORE JP DL (1849-1904), of Mooresfort, MP for Clonmel, 1874-85, Londonderry, 1899-1900, High Sheriff of County Tipperary, 1877, wedded, in 1877, Mary Lucy, daughter of Sir Charles Clifford, 1st Baronet, of Hatherton Hall, Staffordshire, and had issue,

Arthur Joseph Clifford, 1878-1900;
CHARLES JOSEPH HENRY O’HARA, his heir;
Edith Mary.

Mr Moore, Commander of the Order of St Gregory, Chamberlain to Pope LEO XIII, was created a Count by His Holiness in 1879.

His younger son,

CHARLES JOSEPH HENRY O’HARA MOORE MC JP (1880-1965), of Mooresfort, and Aherlow Castle, Captain, Irish Guards, married, in 1917, the Lady Dorothie Mary Evelyn Feilding MM, daughter of 9th Earl of Denbigh.

MOORESFORT HOUSE, near Lattin, County Tipperary, was built in 1725 as a three-storey block.

The house was remodelled in the 1850s by Charles Moore MP, converting the house to a two-storey building in order to have higher rooms.

The Italianate remodelling of the house included the addition of an ornate portico and pediment to the front elevation and canted-bay windows flanked by classically influenced pilasters giving the building an overall Victorian character.

The decorative stained glass window is due to the addition of a chapel designed by George Ashlin also added about this time.

The house retains notable interior features including timber shutters and graceful plasterwork to the drawing room depicting musical instruments.

The extensive ranges of outbuildings adjoining the house are still used to serve a working farm, and contribute positively to the over all setting of the house.

AHERLOW CASTLE, near Bansha, County Tipperary, was also a seat of Arthur Moore MP.

This small castle stands in the Glen of Aherlow.

It has a polygonal tower with loops at one end; a square tower at the other.

Former town residences ~ 64 Prince’s Gate, London; 10 Grafton Street, Dublin.

First published in August, 2013.

Modreeny House, Cloughjordan, Co Tipperary 

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Modreeny House, Cloughjordan, Co Tipperary 

Mark Bence-Jones. A Guide to Irish Country Houses (originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978); Revised edition 1988 Constable and Company Ltd, London.

p. 208. “(Dancer, Bt/PB1933) A two storey Georgian house with a small central pediment; high polygonal addition to the left, low addition with Venetian window to the right. Doric gate lodge.” 

https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/22401023/modreeny-modreeny-tipperary-north

Detached seven-bay two-storey over basement house, built c. 1790, comprising five-bay block to centre with pedimented breakfront and having advanced nineteenth-century single-bay wings, two-storey with canted-bay front to south-west and single-storey to south-east. Hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks. Balustraded parapet to south-east wing. Ruled-and-lined render to walls. Timber sash windows with limestone sills, two-over-two pane to centre five-bay block and one-over-one pane elsewhere. Cut stone Venetian window to south-east wing. Cut stone doorcase to front door having pediment supported on engaged columns, decorative fanlight and replacement timber double leaf doors. Flight of limestone steps up to front door over basement. Extensive stone outbuildings to rear having pitched slate roofs, some with brick chimneystacks. Three-bay dormered single-storey gate lodge to north having canted west end, hipped slate roof with decorative brick chimney, ruled-and-lined render walls, timber sash windows and brick-walled porch. Carved stone gate piers to north gateway with cast-iron railings. 

Appraisal 

A well-maintained house displaying several phases of construction and retaining many important architectural features such as slate roofs, the majority of the timber sash windows, fine cut stone Venetian window and elegant fanlight to the main entrance. The outbuildings, extended in the nineteenth century, are of high quality, in good condition and retain their original character. Other features in the grounds include a stone bridge with cut stone plinth and cast-iron railings to the front avenue and two gate lodges and cut stone gateways. 

https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/22401028/modreeny-modreeny-tipperary-north

Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge to Modreeny, built c. 1850, having pedimented entrance portico. Hipped slate roof with cut stone chimneystack. Dressed limestone walls with ashlar limestone portico in antis. Timber margined mullioned casement windows with replacement uPVC windows to west elevation. Timber panelled doors. Quadrant gateway with onamental cast-iron gates flanked by railings on cut stone plinth. 

Appraisal 

This impressive classical gate lodge is likely to have replaced a simpler Georgian lodge and to date from the extension of the existing house at Modreeny carried out in the mid-nineteenth century. The ashlar stonework of the breakfront is of a high standard and the original character of the building remains, despite the replacement of several windows with uPVC. 

 
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In 1786 Wilson refers to “Moderenny” as the seat of Sir Amyrald Dancer. The Ordnance Survey Name Books refer to the house as Eminisky House in 1841 but it is marked on the first edition map as Modreeny House and was the home of the Dancer family. It was replaced by a new house circa 1920s. The outbuildings, gates and gatelodge of the original house still remain. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation Sir Thomas B. Dancer held this property in fee. The buildings were valued at £21. Hussey gives Modreeny House as the address of Sir Thomas Dancer in 1878.  

Charity Dancer (baptised 1718), married Samuel Eyre in 1741, mother of Thomas Dancer Eyre, Elizabeth Eyre, Chichester Eyre, Anchorette Eyre and Mary Eyre. Courtesy Purcell Auctioneer Feb 2016.
Thomas Dancer Eyre (d. 1799) courtesy Purcells Auctioneer Feb 2016.
Captain Thomas Dancer Eyre (1742-1799) of 4th Dragoon Guards, m. Letitia Cole in 1788, courtesy Purcell Auctioneers 2016.

Mountfrisco, Co Tipperary – lost 

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Mountfrisco, Roscrea, Co Tipperary – lost 

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.

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p. 300. “(Butler-Lloyd, sub Lloyd/IFR; and sub Dunboyne, B/PB 1970) A three storey five bay C18 house, of which the ground floor is treated as a basement and is vaulted. Quoins and bold string courses, large central window above entrance doorway with entablature. First floor drawing room with plaster panelling. Once the home of the Butler-Lloyd family, now a ruin.” 

Marlow, Goold’s Cross, Co Tipperary 

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Marlow, Goold’s Cross, Co Tipperary 

Mark Bence-Jones. A Guide to Irish Country Houses (originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978); Revised edition 1988 Constable and Company Ltd, London.

p. 203. “(Pennefather/LGI1958) A two storey five bay early C18 house with a gabled C19 addition at one end. The C18 house has a fanlighted doorway with an entablature and a dormered attic in its high-pitched roof; the gable of C19 addition has a bargeboard.” 

https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/22204604/marlow-house-marlow-tipperary-south

Detached five-bay two-storey house with half basement and dormer attic, built c.1730, with slightly projecting gable-fronted addition of 1912 to west end having canted-bay window to ground floor, two-bay first floor, single-bay attic floor and two-bay side elevation. Recent single-storey glazed conservatory to east gable. Pitched slate roofs, having decoratively carved bargeboards to over-sailing gables, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls with square-headed one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, barred to basement, all windows having limestone sills. Cut limestone date plaque to gable-front with inscription ‘Except the Lord build the house they labour in vain that built it 1912’. Entrance doorway has square-headed opening with rendered surround and cornice with slated rooflet, timber panelled door with spoked fanlight in rectangular opening, and limestone steps. Yard of outbuildings to rear and avenue to south. Cast-iron double-leaf gates to road. 

Appraisal 

This fine early eighteenth-century house bears evidence of having built in phases, this giving much visual, architectural and historical interest to the building. The fine doorcase to the earlier part, reached by a flight of steps, and the decorative bargeboards to the later provide decorative foci to the front facade. The retention of timber sash windows and timber panelled door enhance the architectural heritage value, and the date plaque to the later block, with the biblical inscription, adds further interest, and the various outbuildings add context. 

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An early 18th century house, the seat of a branch of the Pennefather family, with some early 20th century additions. Still extant, this house was the residence of Thomas Pennefather in 1814 and Edward Pennefather in the mid 19th century. He held the property in fee and the buildings were valued at £14. The Pennefathers were still resident at Marlow in the mid 20th century. 

Mantle Hill, Golden, Co Tipperary (also Castlepark) 

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Mantle Hill, Golden, Co Tipperary (also Castlepark or Scully House) 

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. 200. (Scully/LGI 1912) A house built ca. 1815-20 by the lawyer Denys Scully, consisting of a square main block of two storeys over a basement, with a lower two storey service wing at the back. Three bay front; single-storey Ionic portico with die; ground floor windows in arched recesses. Three bay side. Wide-eaved roof, chimneys gathered together in single central stack. Unusual polychrome voussoirs over all windows.”

Long Orchard, Templemore, Co Tipperary 

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Long Orchard, Templemore, Co Tipperary 

Mark Bence-Jones. A Guide to Irish Country Houses (originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978); Revised edition 1988 Constable and Company Ltd, London.

p. 299. “(Power-Lalor/LGI1912) A C18 house of three storeys over basement. Staircase of fine joinery with barleysugar bannisters. Seat of the Lalors; inherited 1852 by Edmond James Power-Lalor, second son of Edmond Power of Gurteen and Anastatia, nee Lalor, who married as her second husband the politician Richard Lalor Shiel. Long Orchard is the setting of Beatrice Coogan’s novel, The Big Wind.” 

Mrs. Mary Power Lalor (nee Ryan) (1840-1913) of Long Orchard, Co. Tipperary by G. Canavari 1859 courtesy Fonsie Mealy auction 2013. She was daughter of George Ryan of Inch, County Tipperary and Catherine Whyte of Loughbrickland. She married Edmond James Power-Lalor of Long Orchard, County Tipperary.

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The Lalors were resident at Long Orchard from the mid 18th century. A relative, Edmund Dogherty, was the occupier in 1814. In 1837 Lewis records Richard Lalor Sheil as the proprietor. The Ordnance Survey Name Books in 1840 refer to the house as the residence of the local clergyman, Mr. Thomson. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation he held the property from Richard Lalor Shiel when it was valued at £11. The Power Lalor family were still resident at Long Orchard in the early 20th century. Mrs Stella Power Lalor was the occupant in the early 1940s but the grounds and gardens had gone “wild” (Irish Tourist Association Survey).This house is now demolished.