County Tipperary

Barne, Clonmel, Tipperary

by jenjunebug

Barne, Clonmel, Tipperary

Barne, County Tipperary, photograph courtesy of Savills, 2023.
Barne, County Tipperary, photograph courtesy of Savills, 2023.

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. 32. “(Thomson-Moore/IFR) A large three storey house of early C18 appearance with a front of 11 bays, the two end bays on either side projecting forwards. Central feature rather similar to that of Furness, Co Kildare, and Clermont, Co Wicklow, consisting of a frontispiece of paired engaged Doric columns and entablature, surmounted by an aedicule of two engaged Ionic columns and a pediment framing the central first floor window. In C19, the house was given a high-pitched roof in the French chateau style, with dormers.” 

Thomas Moore of Barne, courtesy of Adam’s auction 15th Oct 2019. The son of Richard Moore and Henrietta Taylour, the sitter married Charlotte Spencer of Co. Down in 1777 but died in 1780 without issue.
Barne, County Tipperary, photograph courtesy of Savills, 2023.

https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/22207612/barne-park-barn-demesne-innishlounaght-pr-tipperary-south

Detached U-plan eleven-bay three-storey country house, built c. 1730 but possibly incorporating a seventeenth-century house, with advanced two-bay ends, slightly lower central rear two-bay return, and dormer attic storey in French chateau style roof, latter added c. 1870. Rear has slightly lower two-bay three-storey return to west end with bowed rear gable, single-storey pitched roof addition between this and central return, and flat-roofed three-storey addition and single-storey lean-to and pitched roof additions to east end. Steep sprocketed hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, cast-iron finials to front gables of advanced ends, ornate rendered chimneystacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Decorative timber cornice with dentils to front and side elevations. Pebbledashed walls with smooth rendered eaves course. Cut limestone wheel guards to advanced bays. Dormer windows have hipped slate roofs with lead finials, timber dentils and square-headed paired timber casement windows. Square-headed window openings throughout, diminishing in size, blind to inner return walls of advanced ends and to part of west addition, timber sliding sash windows elsewhere, with cut sandstone sills, one-over-one pane to lower floors of front elevation, two-over-two pane to top floor, six-over-six pane to side and rear elevations, with three-over-six pane to top floor of west return to rear. Round spoked timber window to rear wall of main block. Variety of timber sliding sash and replacement uPVC windows to rear additions. Ornate render detail to entrance comprising paired engaged Tuscan columns with high bases and supporting an entablature surmounted by an aedicule of engaged ionic columns and dentillated pediment framing central first floor window. Square-headed timber panelled door to entrance opening. Shutters to interiors of windows. Courtyard of outbuildings to rear and to west, range of former workers’ houses to west and walled garden to north. Random rubble sandstone boundary walls with dressed limestone piers and wrought-iron double leaf gates to site. 

Appraisal 

This impressive country house, the former residence of S. Moore Esq., has many interesting early eighteenth-century and later nineteenth-century features. Of particular interest is the ornate door arrangement, a similar version of which is visible at Furness, Co. Kildare which is attributed to Francis Bindon circa 1731. The roof, a late nineteenth-century addition in the French Chateau style, adds a whimsical grandeur to the otherwise uniform, symmetrical façade. The outbuildings to the rear and west and the walled garden to the east, complete an attractive group, the history of which spans four centuries. 

Barne, County Tipperary, photograph courtesy of Savills, 2023.

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The seat of the Moore family in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. In 1786 Wilson refers to it as the seat of Thomas Moore In 1840 the Ordnance Survey Letter Books note that it had “a garden nursery and ornamental ground”. It was held by Stephen Moore in fee in the mid 19th century and valued at £49+. Randal K. Moore was resident in 1906 and Mr and Mrs Murray Moore in the early 1940s when the house contained a very fine library and antique art collection. Barn is still extant.   

A family who were established in the Clonmel area of county Tipperary from the early 17th century. Richard Moore had two sons, the Earls of Mount Cashell descend from the elder, Stephen, and the Moores of Barne from the younger, Thomas. In 1833 Stephen Charles Moore of Barne married Anna, eldest daughter of Colonel Kingsmill Pennefather and they had three sons and three daughters. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation the Moore estate was mainly located in the parishes of Inishlounaght and Newchapel, barony of Iffa and Offa East. In the 1870s Stephen Moore of Barne owned 1,813 acres in county Tipperary and 167 acres in county Cork. His mother may be the Mrs Anne Moore of Silverspring, Clonmel, who owned 771 acres. The Right Honourable Richard Moore, uncle of Stephen Charles Moore, held land in the parishes of Graystown and St Johnbaptist, barony of Slievardagh, in the mid 19th century. The estate of Richard Roxborough Moore at Roxborough and Chancellorstown, barony of Iffa and Offa and at Graystown, barony of Slievardagh, were advertised for sale in June 1859.  

Barne, County Tipperary, photograph courtesy of Savills, 2023.

For sale July 2023 

€2,500,000 12 beds1572.8 m2 

Imposing 17th Century house set in a commanding position on about 105 acres Barne House is an impressive period property occupying a commanding and elevated position amongst formal gardens, a feature lake and surrounding parkland.

In eleven bays, the three-storey mansion house, with a dormer attic storey, sits below a French Château-style roof which is believed to have been a late addition to the building in circa 1870 and incorporates a U-shaped design in its layout.

External features of the house include a steep sprocketed hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, ornate rendered chimneystacks, cast iron finials, ornate render detail to the entrance comprising paired engaged columns and a dentillated pediment framing the central first floor window. Accessed off the N24 Waterford to Limerick national road via a stone walled entrance flanked by piers with wrought-iron gates and railings, Barne House is approached along a sweeping driveway with mature parkland on either side and a feature lake to the west before ascending to the formal gardens and a parking area. With a south-facing position, the house has an outstanding outlook over the lake and beyond towards the rolling farmland and the Knockmealdown Mountains on the horizon.

Barne, County Tipperary, photograph courtesy of Savills, 2023.
Barne, County Tipperary, photograph courtesy of Savills, 2023.
Barne, County Tipperary, photograph courtesy of Savills, 2023.

The accommodation adapts to provide contained day to day family living whilst reserving generously proportioned reception rooms for entertaining and guest bedrooms for larger family gatherings. A key characteristic of the house is the extent and flexibility of the accommodation, with the empty rooms on the second and third floors offering the potential to provide further accommodation or be used for another purpose.

The house is entered through the elaborate front door which is attributed to the highly regarded architect Francis Bindon. It opens to a reception hall with a striking central staircase and a mezzanine above. The ground floor is mainly devoted to entertaining with formal reception rooms including a dining room and drawing room (both accessed off the central reception hall) while the west and east wings comprise a games room, morning room and library/study. Notable internal period features include sash windows, shutters, picture rails, architraves, cornicing, decorative fireplaces and hardwood floors. Doors flanking the staircase in the reception hall open to inner passages which provide access to a spacious dining kitchen and a range of service rooms and stores one would expect of a house of this scale and period.

Barne, County Tipperary, photograph courtesy of Savills, 2023.
Barne, County Tipperary, photograph courtesy of Savills, 2023.
Barne, County Tipperary, photograph courtesy of Savills, 2023.
Barne, County Tipperary, photograph courtesy of Savills, 2023.
Barne, County Tipperary, photograph courtesy of Savills, 2023.
Barne, County Tipperary, photograph courtesy of Savills, 2023.

On the first floor are 8 bedrooms, with a further 4 bedrooms and a Lady’s drawing room on the second floor. The third floor/attic level was originally used for accommodating staff and along with the east wing of the second floor requires renovation works to bring it back to its former glory. The internal accommodation extends to approximately 16,930 square feet (1,572 square metres) as shown on the accompanying floorplans.  

Barne, County Tipperary, photograph courtesy of Savills, 2023.
Barne, County Tipperary, photograph courtesy of Savills, 2023.
Barne, County Tipperary, photograph courtesy of Savills, 2023.
Barne, County Tipperary, photograph courtesy of Savills, 2023.
Barne, County Tipperary, photograph courtesy of Savills, 2023.
Barne, County Tipperary, photograph courtesy of Savills, 2023.
Barne, County Tipperary, photograph courtesy of Savills, 2023.

Outbuildings To the rear of the house is a historic courtyard, which would have originally been the coaching yard. The range of traditional outbuildings surrounding the courtyard provided staff accommodation, cobbled floor stabling, tack room, butchery and dairy buttery. The back avenue, accessed via the L3205 road, includes a further range of attractive outbuildings including stables, accommodation, bathroom, hayloft and storage. In total, the traditional outbuildings extend to approximately 9,942 square feet (924 square metres). Gardens & Grounds The impressive estate grounds surrounding Barne House include extensive formal gardens to the front which are laid to lawn and overlook the striking feature lake. The historic parkland beyond comprises outstanding specimen trees and mature woodland which provide privacy, colour and amenity. There is also a walled garden located to the rear of Barne House which is believed to date from circa 1870. The wall remains intact and is characterised by a stone outer leaf and brick inner leaf. To the rear of the house and adjacent to the walled garden is a tennis court, set amongst parkland laid with rhododendron, camellia and rose gardens. Farm Buildings A range of farm buildings are situated beyond the traditional outbuildings and are entered from the L3205 road, adjacent to the west entrance to Barne House. The farm buildings provide a workshop, machinery storage and include a former grain dryer store. Substantial traditional stone walls surrounding the entrance provide privacy and security. Please refer to the floorplans for a layout of the farm buildings. The estate benefits from a three-phase electricity supply. Land Lot 1 comprises a combination of tillage, parkland and woodland, extending to about 105 acres in total. The tillage land is in two divisions situated to the north and east of the house, separated by an area of parkland. The estate is located in an area known as the Golden Vale, given it has some of the most renowned land in Ireland for farming and being rich in agricultural diversity, with fertile light loam soil that lies over limestone. As such, the area is well served by grain merchants, agricultural machinery suppliers, milk processors and livestock markets. The estate is located close to the medieval town of Clonmel(6 km) which overlooks the River Suir, acting as the boundary between the counties of Tipperary and Waterford. The town offers an array of amenities including several shopping centres, excellent restaurants, hotels, traditional pubs, shops, boutique stores and a hospital. The historic town of Cashel, located 20 km north-west of the property, is home to the famous Rock of Cashel, one of Ireland’s most visited tourist attractions and the recently opened five-star Cashel Palace Hotel. Cashel provides a further range of amenities including restaurants, bars, supermarkets, professional services, schools and a hospital. There are few places in the world with a bloodstock breeding and racing tradition as rich as that in County Tipperary. It is home to some of the most iconic stud farms and training establishments in Europe, while the county features popular racecourses at Thurles, Tipperary and Clonmel. Tipperary is one of the leading economic contributors to the Irish breeding and racing industry with all core industry sectors well represented including the thoroughbred breeding industry for which Tipperary is best known. The estate is served by excellent transport links nearby including the M8 motorway (Junction 10) which is only 10 kilometres distant and connects Dublin to Cork via the M7 interchange. The area is also well-located for airports, including Cork Airport (95 km), Shannon Airport (101 km) and Dublin Airport (189 km). There is no shortage of exceptional golf courses nearby including Clonmel Golf Club (11 kilometres) and Cahir Park Golf Club (13 kilometres). The Championship Dundrum House Hotel Golf Club designed by 1995 Ryder Cup hero Philip Walton is located 30 kilometres from the property. The Jack Nicklaus designed Mount Juliet Estate is 50 kilometres from Barne Estate. There is excellent trout and salmon fishing nearby on the River Suir and the Blackwater River, while hill walkers will enjoy the range of peaks in the Galtee Mountains and nearby Slievenamon. Both national and secondary education is available in Clonmel. The area is also well served for private education including Rockwell College, Glenstal Abbey, Presentation Secondary School and Ursuline Secondary School, which offers education for both day pupils and full-time boarding. 

Features  

  • Imposing 17th century house set in a commanding position 
  • 4 principal reception rooms, 12 bedrooms and extensive ancillary accommodation 
  • Formal gardens, tennis court, walled garden and tree-lined driveway 
  • Idyllic parkland surroundings, including a feature lake 
  • Range of modern and traditional farm buildings 
  • 48 acres tillage, 26 acres pasture, 15 acres woods 

BER Details  

BER: Exempt BER No: Performance Indicator: 

Directions  

The Eircode is E91 CX96. 

Negotiator Details  

James Butler 

Viewing Information  

Strictly by appointment with Savills Dublin – Country on + 353 (0) 1 618 1300 

Ballyowen (formerly New Park), Cashel, Co Tipperary

by jenjunebug

Ballyowen (formerly New Park), Cashel, Co Tipperary – tours 

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. 27. “(Pennefather, sub Freese-Pennefeather/LGI1958); McCan, sub Power and O’Connell/IFR) A house of three storeys over basement built ca 1750 by the Pennefather family. Six bay front; two bay pedimented breakfront; Venetian doorway framed by frontispiece of four engaged Corinthian columns and entablature with a Venetian window on either side. Prominent roof; lunette window in pediment. Two bay side. Main staircase rising to top storey. Plaster ceiling in drawing room similar to one at Glin Castle. Pedimented stable block at side of house. Sold after the Famine to the Davies family. Resold 1864 to the McCan family” 

https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/22205316/ballyowen-house-newpark-ballysheehan-pr-tipperary-south

Detached T-plan six-bay three-storey over half-basement country house, built c. 1760, with two-bay pedimented breakfront. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks having square pots, hexagonal lantern over stairs, carved limestone eaves course and cornice, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Lantern has leaded sides and glazed roof. Painted rendered walls with cut limestone plinth course. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills, having timber sliding sash windows, three-over-three pane to second floor and three-over-six pane to first floor. Venetian window openings to ground floor comprising round-headed six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with fanlights having decorative ogee detailing and flanked by detached four-over-four pane timber sliding sash side-lights. Lunette-shaped timber-framed window to pediment. Some rear basement windows barred. Entrance comprises engaged Corinthian columns with entablature and dentillated cornice inset with round-headed door opening having moulded render surround and keystone, decorative spandrels, sunburst fanlight and timber panelled double doors, flanked by decorative leaded sidelights. Flight of limestone steps to front elevation with cast-iron railings. Yard to rear of house comprises three ranges of outbuildings and cut limestone segmental-arched carriage arch. Multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to south range has pitched slate roof, rendered and red brick chimneystacks, and cut limestone bellcote. Painted rendered walls, slate-hung east gable, square-headed openings with three-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows with limestone sills to upper floor and timber battened doors. Nine-bay single-storey outbuilding to south range has pitched slate roof, rendered rubble stone walls and square-headed openings with timber fittings. Eight-bay two-storey outbuilding to west of yard has hipped slate roof with brick chimneystack, painted rendered walls, two-bay pedimented breakfront with lunette window openings and depressed three-centred headed carriage arches with double-leaf timber battened doors, and square-headed door openings and window openings with timber louvred fittings to upper floor and three-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to lower floor. Seven-bay single-storey outbuilding, formerly pair of workers’ houses, to north of yard has lean-to sheet metal roof, painted rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings with cut limestone voussoirs and timber replacement windows and timber battened doors. Outbuildings to yard to north have pitched and hipped slate roofs, rendered walls and square-headed openings with timber fittings, one with elliptical-headed carriage arch with cut limestone voussoirs and keystone. Walled garden to south-west of house. Entrance to avenue has rendered piers and decorative cast-iron double-leaf gates. 

Built by the Pennef(e)ather family in the eighteenth century, the burgeoning interest of the time in classical antiquity is evident in its use of Serlian window motifs, and a Corinthian order with capitals like those of the Pantheon in Rome. The diminishing windows, pedimented breakfront, decorative restraint, and fanlighted door are also evidence of classical influence. The sculpted door surround, and the leaded fanlights to the windows as well as doors are evidence of the craftsmanship used and the status accorded to this building. Retaining much of its demesne and set in a mature landscape, it makes an interesting group with the outbuildings, gate lodge, walled garden and gates and railings. 

https://www.ballyowenhouse.ie/

Ballyowen House is situated close to one of Ireland’s leading historical heritage site ‘The Rock of Cashel’. Whilst in this beautiful part of Ireland why not pay a visit to historic Ballyowen House. You will get a first hand account of this other historic gem which is located only 4 miles from Cashel.  

  • At Ballyowen House we offer tour groups a wonderful opportunity to experience life in a beautiful old Country House which dates back to 1750. We offer a tour of approx 1 hour, and we will invite you to the dining room of the main house for coffees, teas and scones etc. at the end. 
  • Over the centuries this old place has accumulated a fascinating history and we will share interesting and colourful events from it’s past with you. Ranging from ancient times up to the Irish War of Independence, with lots of colourful details! 
  • We will show you around the Main Rooms of the house, and give a talk on it’s several fine features, many with amusing stories to tell  
  • We will also give you a tour of Ballyowen’s grounds where you can see the beautiful centuries old stable block and barns brought back to life as an active horse showjumping training facility today, where horses are kept in the same stables used centuries ago to keep horses for the Ballyowen’s horse drawn carriages. 
  • The beautiful grounds also include a walled garden which we are restoring. It includes an unusual woodfire heated “vine” wall to help the growing of grapes! It also has an ornamental lake and beautiful old specimen trees and woods, ideal for a lazy Summer stroll… 
  • The big difference with Ballyowen is that it is the fully lived in family home of the hosts and their young family and the grounds, stable yard and farm are active and functioning, this is where we live!  

Ballyowen is set in a well chosen, elevated site and surrounded by acres of fine, mature parkland including an ancient hillside woodland to the rear. Lines of elegant beech trees also add to the natural tranquility  

  

“To quote Yeats, Peace certainly “comes dripping slow” at Ballyowen.” 

Tour Package involves a guided tour of approx 1 hour conducted by the owners both in the main rooms of the beautiful Ballyowen House and of the Stableyard and grounds outside. The visit will be hosted by the owners and visitors will also be treated to teas, coffees and freshly baked scones in Ballyowen House’s elegant main dining room at the end.  

The tour will include very lively and interesting talks and will cover the following: 

  • History – Ballyowen House has fascinating political links to Ireland’s turbulent past from Cromwellian times to the Irish War of Independence, with plenty of intrigue included. 
  • Architecture – outstanding classical Georgian country house built in 1750 with numerous curious details, and a window into life in the past, and many odd stories! 
  • Grounds and Stable Yard – Ballyowen is set in an elegant parkland setting with a beautiful restored stable yard and fully active horse training facility for showjumping horses, and a few surprises? 
  • Woodland Walks – The landscaped parkland grounds around Ballyowen House include a fascinating walled garden, ornamental lake, ancient specimen trees and beautiful walks through old adjoining hillside woodlands, fairies have been seen there too… 

Extra  

Attractions 

Extra Attractions – The hosts also intend to provide additional interesting attractions or activities for visitors and will gladly respond to feedback or preferences from our visitors. Such attractions or activities can include:  

  • Vintage car on site to experience life in the past.  
  • Archery (by arrangement). 
  • Clay Pigeon Shooting (by arrangement). 
  • Meet some newborn lambs (early season) 

Ballyknockane Lodge, Ballypatrick, Co. Tipperary 

by jenjunebug

Ballyknockane Lodge, Ballypatrick, 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.

[Butler, Ormonde) 

p. 23. “A shooting lodge of the Marquesses of Ormonde at the foot of Slievenaman on the lands of Kilcash Castle; built 1867 to the design of Sir Thomas Newenham Deane. Of stone, wiht gables, overhanging roofs and bargeboards. Now a residence of Mr and Mrs Kenneth O’Reilly-Hyland.” 

https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/22207805/ballyknockane-house-ballyknockane-ballymackey-pr-tipperary-south

Detached L-plan three-bay two-storey country house, built c. 1810, with remains of gabled porch to front, full-height lean-to extension to rear and pitched sheet metal roofed single-storey extension to north-east. Hipped and pitched slate roofs with ridge tiles, overhanging rendered eaves, rendered chimneystacks with decorative clay pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pebbledashed walls with smooth render plinth and eaves course. Square-headed window openings with timber sliding sash windows. Façade and east gable have three-over-six pane to first floor and six-over-six pane to ground floor and other elevations have two-over-two pane and three-over-six pane to first floor and six-over-six pane to ground floor, all with tooled cut limestone sills. Square headed door opening with timber panelled door and overlight with glazing bars, having timber panelling to surround, latter formerly interior wall of once extant pitched roof porch. Raised area incorporating uppermost cut limestone step and having enclosing wall to entrance. Yard of outbuildings to north having pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks and roughcast rendered walls. Multiple-bay two-storey buildings to east and west, south gable of former having round-headed window and ashlar limestone bellcote with string course and round-arched opening with projecting keystone. Building to west has square-headed timber sliding sash three-over-six pane and three-over-three pane windows. Building to north is single-storey with square-headed and segmental-headed carriage entrances. Walls of former walled garden to north-east of site. Cut limestone piers with cast-iron gates to newly-formed entrance. 

Appraisal 

This elegant, classically-proportioned house is attractively situated in landscaped surrounds. It retains its timber sliding sash windows and its external form and character have changed little since the early nineteenth century. The associated outbuildings add to the context of the house and the ashlar limestone bellcote is evidence of good quality stonecraft. 

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Marked on the first Ordnance Survey map as Ballyknockane Cottage, valued at £21 and occupied by Walter Asper at the time of Griffith’s Valuation. He held the property from the Marquess of Ormonde. In 1894 Slater noted it as part of the latter estate. This building no longer exists.   

Ballycarron House, Golden, Co Tipperary 

by jenjunebug

Ballycarron House, Golden, Co Tipperary 

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

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

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

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

Appraisal 

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

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

Ballingarrane (formerly known as Summerville), Clonmel, Co. Tipperary 

by jenjunebug

Ballingarrane (formerly known as Summerville), 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.

p. 18. “Watson/IFR) A house of ca. 1797, possibly an early work of Richard Morrison, who was living in Clonmel at the time; of two storeys over basement in front and three storeys behind. Front of five bays, doorcase with baseless pediment and Doric columns; steps with elegant wrought-iron railings; good quoins. Small two storey one bay wings set back; gateway with tall piers and pineapple finials at side, leading to yard. Slightly curving stairs with slender wooden balusters at back of hall; drawing room with Adamesque frieze; dining room with black marble chimneypiece which probably came out of an earlier C18 huse, as did another black marble chimneypiece in a bedroom. Very attractive gardens laid out by present owners, Col Sidney Watson, the historical biographer, and his wife, with vistas of lawns, flowers and shrubs extending in several directions; garden gate made from the doorcase of a demolished house in Clonmel.” 

https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/22208307/ballingarrane-house-ballingarrane-tipperary-south

Detached five-bay two-storey over half-basement country house, built c. 1795, having three-storey elevation to rear with slightly lower three-storey central return. Lower single-bay two-storey wings to north and south ends, set back from front elevation. Two-bay single-storey lean-to extension to north elevation of north wing and recent flat-roofed single-storey extension to return of main house. Hipped slate roof to main block, with rendered chimneystacks, limestone eaves course, moulded to front and side elevations and cut stone to rear elevation, with cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched slate roof to return and hipped artificial slate roofs to wings, with gablets to front elevations. Smooth rendered walls with raised cut limestone quoins and plinth course. Square-headed window openings, segmental-headed to basement and round-headed to gablets of wings, with limestone sills. Replacement uPVC windows to ground and first floor of front, to gable elevations and to first floor of wings. Timber sliding sash windows elsewhere, barred three-over-three pane to basement, three-over-six pane to top floor rear, six-over-six pane to middle floor rear, and two-over-two pane to ground floor of wings. Timber casement windows to ground floor rear. Round-headed six-over-six pane window to return with traceried fanlight. Carved limestone doorcase to main entrance, having engaged Doric columns and open-bed pediment with ornate petal fanlight and flanked by square-headed paned timber sidelights with cut limestone surrounds and sills. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door, with moulded lintel. Flight of splayed cut limestone steps to entrance, with wrought-iron railings. Range of single-storey outbuildings to rear of house has pitched slate roof, rendered walls, square-headed openings with timber sliding sash three-over-three pane windows with limestone sills, timber battened doors, and round-headed carriage archway. Yard to north side of house entered through gateway having square-profile cut limestone piers with moulded copings and carved limestone pineapples, flanked to south by segmental-arched pedestrian entrance set into cut stone wall. Yard has three ranges of outbuildings. Three-bay single-storey outbuilding to south has lean-to slate roof, rendered rubble stone and concrete block walls, and square-headed door openings with timber battened half-doors with strap hinges. Six-bay single-storey with loft outbuilding to south with pitched slate roof, dormer loft window, rendered walls, and square-headed openings with timber sliding sash eight-over-eight pane windows with stone sills, timber battened doors. Four-bay single-storey outbuilding to west has pitched slate roof, rubble stone walls, elliptical-arched carriage entrance with sandstone voussoirs and timber battened double-leaf doors, and square-headed openings with timber sliding sash and casement windows. Five-bay two-storey outbuilding to north has hipped slate roof, rendered rubble stone walls, external staircase, and square-headed openings, with timber louvres to first floor. Walled garden to west has rubble stone walls, and carved limestone doorcase to east elevation of east wall with fluted archivolt and frieze, with paterae and engaged columns with moulded capitals, and square-headed entrance with ornate cast-iron pedestrian gate. 

This house shows the conceit common in Ireland of having the lowest level appearing as a half-basement to the front elevation, and appearing as the ground floor of three floors to the rear. The quoins, doorcase, eaves course and plinth course, as well as being finely crafted in their own right, serve to emphasise and enhance the form and structure of the building. The reuse of a carved limestone doorcase as the frame for a gate into the walled garden provides an interesting contrast to the utilitarian rubble stone walls. The house is set in context, with mature grounds and retaining its outbuildings and walled garden. 

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Ballingarrane was originally leased and then purchased in the late 18th century by Solomon Watson, banker of Clonmel. He built Summerville House which later became known as Ballingarrane. W. H. Bradshaw occupied the house in 1837 and John Mulcahy in the mid 19th century when the buildings were valued at £25+ and held from Solomon Watson. The Watsons occupied the house again in the second half of the 19th century and family members were still resident in the late 20th century.

Ballinamona, Cashel, Co Tipperary 

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Ballinamona, 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.

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.” 

https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/22206022/ballinamona-house-ballinamona-horeabbey-pr-tipperary-south

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. 

https://tipperarystudies.ie/murphy-photographic-collection-ballinamona-house-cashel-co-tipperary-online-now/

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.  

Ballinacourty (or Ballynacourty) House, Co Tipperary

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Ballinacourty (or Ballynacourty) House, Co Tipperary – lost, guest house and restaurant 

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. 25. Ballynacourty, Tipperary, Co Tipperary. (Massy-Dawson, sub Massy, B/PB) A plain two storey cut-stone house with a polygonal pyramidal roofed tower. Now demolished.” 

https://lordbelmontinnorthernireland.blogspot.com/2014/05/ballyinacourty-house.html

THE MASSY-DAWSONS WERE MAJOR LANDOWNERS IN COUNTY TIPPERARY, WITH 19,093 ACRES 

 
The first of this noble family that settled in Ireland was  
  
GENERAL HUGH MASSY, who had a military command to repress the rebellion of 1641. 

The family of Massy derive their name from the town and ancient lordship of Massy, in Normandy, their place of residence at the time Normandy was conquered by Rollo, 1st Duke of Normandy, in the year 876, at which period they were styled lords of Massy. 

HAMON DE MASSEY was created one of the eight temporal peers of Chester, by the title of Baron of  Dunham Massey, by Hugh Lupus, earl palatine of that county. 

The General married Margaret Percy, and had a son, 

HUGH MASSY, of Duntrileague, County Limerick, who wedded Amy, daughter of John Benson, and had issue, 

HUGH, his heir; 

John; 

William; 

CHARLES (Very Rev), Dean of Limerick, ancestor of the Massy Baronets; 

Margaret; Amy. 

The eldest son, 

 
COLONEL HUGH MASSY, of Duntrileague, born in 1685, married Elizabeth, daughter of the Rt Hon George Evans, and had issue, 

HUGH, of whom we treat; 

George (Ven), Archdeacon of Ardfert; 

John, killed in a duel; 

Godfrey, in holy orders; 

William, m Mary, daughter of Eyre Evans, of Portrane; 

EYRE, 1st BARON CLARINA; 

Charles; 

Mary; Amy; Elizabeth; Catherine. 

The eldest son, 

HUGH MASSY, born in 1700, having represented County Limerick in several parliaments, was elevated to the peerage, in 1776, as BARON MASSY, of Duntrileague, County Limerick. 

His lordship espoused firstly, Mary, daughter and heir of James Dawson, of Ballinacourty, County Tipperary, and had issue, 

Hugh, his heir; 

JAMES, of whom we treat; 

John; 

Elizabeth. 

His lordship’s second son, 

THE HON JAMES MASSY, born in 1736, assumed the additional surname of DAWSON after that of MASSY. 

This gentleman married Mary, daughter of John Leonard, and left a son and two daughters, namely, 

JAMES HEWITT, of whom presently; 

Elizabeth; 

Maria. 

Mr Massy-Dawson’s only son, 

 
JAMES HEWITT MASSY-DAWSON (1779-1834), of Ballinacourty, MP for Clonmel, 1820-30, married, in 1800, Eliza Jane, daughter of Francis Dennis, and had issue, 

JAMES, (1802-37), died unmarried; 

FRANCIS DENNIS (1803-70); 

John, in holy orders; 

Charles, in the army; 

GEORGE STAUNTON KING, of whom hereafter; 

Mary; Anna; Elizabeth; Isabella; Louisa; Adelaide; Helena. 

Mr Massy-Dawson’s youngest son, 

 
GEORGE STAUNTON KING MASSY-DAWSON JP DL (1816-97), of Ballinacourty, High Sheriff of County Tipperary, 1854, espoused firstly, in 1854, Grace Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Edward Leeson, and had issue, 

JAMES, his heir; 

GEORGE HENRY EDWARD, succeeded his brother; 

Maira; Grace; Louisa. 

He married secondly, in 1869, Harriett Sophia, daughter of Walter Steele; and thirdly, in 1893, Eliza, daughter of the Rev James Rynd. 
 
Mr Massy-Dawson was succeeded by his eldest son, 
 
JAMES MASSY-DAWSON (1857-91), who wedded, in 1886, Alice Matilda Jones, though the marriage was without issue, and he was succeeded by his brother, 

 
GEORGE HENRY EDWARD MASSY-DAWSON JP (1864-1916), of Ballinacourty, who wedded, in 1894, Rosalie Margaretta, daughter of Jean Hunziker, though the marriage was without issue. 

 
 
LINEAGE OF DAWSON 

 
JOHN DAWSON, of Sutterby, Lincolnshire, at the time of the Rebellion, actively employed himself in the service of CHARLES I, and therein raised a troop of horse, under the command of William, Marquess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (afterwards 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne). 
 
This gentleman later followed the fortunes of CHARLES II and eventually retired into Ireland, applying himself to the practice of the Law, wherein he omitted no fit opportunity to advance the interest and restoration of his royal master. 
 
The services of Mr Dawson were not unrewarded: 

On the re-establishment of the monarchy, he received from the crown, in 1666, a grant of land in County Tipperary exceeding 2,900 acres, including the castle of Ballinacourty. 

In 1703, James Dawson, of Ballinacourty, purchased land in the baronies of Coonagh and Clanwilliam, County Limerick, and Clanwilliam, County Tipperary, part of the confiscated estate of JAMES II.  

BALLINACOURTY HOUSE, at the Glen of Aherlow, County Tipperary, originally the home of the Dawson family, passed by marriage to the Massy family, thereby becoming the seat of the Massy-Dawsons in the 18th and 19th centuries. 
 
This was a plain, two-storey, cut-stone house with a polygonal, pyramidal-roofed tower; since demolished. 
 
The Rev John Massy-Dawson occupied Ballinacourty from his father’s death until his own death in 1850. 
 
The original house was destroyed during the troubles in 1922, and became ruinous by the mid 20th century. 
 
The old stable block has been converted into a guest-house and restaurant.  

https://www.ballinacourtyhouse.com/bed-breakfast
Massy arms courtesy of European Heraldry.    First published in April, 2012. 

Ballinaclough House, Nenagh, Co Tipperary 

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Ballinaclough House, Nenagh, Co Tipperary 

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

p. 16. “(Bayley/IFR) A two storey gable ended house with irregular fenestration; round-headed windows, with simple fanlights in all of them; fanlighted entrance doorway, which is not central to the front. Ogee headed windows in gable end.” 

https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/22402702/ballynaclough-house-ballynaclogh-tipperary-north

Detached four-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820, with extension to north. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Trefoil-headed window openings to gables and round-headed elsewhere, some paired, all with replacement windows. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber glazed door. Remains of a seventeenth-century house and ruins of thirteenth-century hall and towerhouse to north of site. Four-bay two-storey outbuilding to north of house with rubble limestone walls, pitched slate roof, square-headed openings to first floor, segmental to ground. Adjoining two-storey building to north is possible bastle house, with rendered stone walls, projecting chimneystack and flight of steps to first floor doorway. Cobbled courtyard. 

Set in mature gardens, this house has retained much of its original form and structure, despite additions and alterations. The house retains its round-headed and unusual trefoil-pointed window openings which enliven the façade. Also to the site are the remains of thirteenth-, fifteenth- and seventeenth-century dwellings which add archaeological interest to the site. 

http://irishantiquities.bravehost.com/tipperary/ballinaclogh/ballinaclogh.html

Ballinaclough Castle 

Map Reference: R983406 (1983, 1406)  

 
This round castle is intact to second floor level. About half the original doorway remains and it is protected by a murder-hole. There is a large rectangular room at each level and a mural stairway rises to the upper levels. No smaller chambers were noted. There are fireplaces at the first and second floors and the first floor is lit by two windows, the smaller one having an ogee head. At the roadside nearby is a boulder with a possible bullaun.  

Ardsallagh, Fethard, Co Tipperary 

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Ardsallagh, Fethard, 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. 11. “(Farquhar, Bt,PB) A gable-ended double bow-fronted C18 house of two storeys over a basement; the bows being three sided and having between them a Venetian window over a pedimented and fanlighted tripartite doorway. Broad flight of steps with railings up to hall door. Hall open to spacious staircase; drawing room and dining room with modern plasterwork friezes in late C18 style. Originally the seat of the Frend family; bought after WWII by Mrs Reginald Farquhar who has made a noteable garden her with a series of walled enclosers, one of which is laid out as an Italian garden with a pool, also a wild garden planted with many rare trees and shrubs.” 

Ardsallagh House, County Tipperary, courtesy of myhome.ie

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

The home of George Gough in the first half of the 19th century. It is described in the Ordnance Survey Name Books in 1840 as “a gentleman’s residence with garden’s attached and surrounded with ornamental grounds”. It was valued at £37.12 shillings in 1850 and held from George Fennel. In the 1870s Colonel George Frend of Ardsullagh owned 100 acres in county Tipperary. Still in use as a country house.   

https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/22206215/ardsallagh-house-ardsallagh-tipperary-south

Detached three-bay two-storey with attic over half-basement country house, built c. 1780, having canted end bays to front elevation. L-plan three-bay two-storey addition to north end of rear, two-storey with attic central return to rear of main block, flanked by single-bay two-storey returns projecting further to give E-plan to main block. Further single-storey with attic return to north return of main block. Pitched slate roofs throughout except for hipped roof to L-plan addition, hipped slate roofs to canted bays, with rendered chimneystacks. Painted rendered walls, having rendered plinth course to front façade. Square-headed openings with timber sliding sash windows, six-over-three pane first floor of façade, six-over-six pane elsewhere, all with limestone sills. Round-headed window over entrance flanked by separate sidelights, all with continuous limestone sill. Twelve-over-eight pane window to middle return of main block. Panelled shuttering to interior of windows. Entrance has panelled timber door with ornate cobweb fanlight flanked by carved Doric engaged columns on limestone plinths supporting open-bed pediment and flanked by sidelights with limestone sills over sandstone plinth walls. Flight of limestone steps to entrance having cast-iron railings. Round-headed doorcase to northern return of main block, having timber panelled door flanked by panelled pilasters, with moulded entablature and archivolt with keystone and having ornate cobweb fanlight. Three-bay single-storey gate lodge to east having lower recessed single-bay wings and flat-roofed extension to rear. Hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, painted rendered walls and having square-headed openings with timber casement windows, tripartite to main block and single to wings, having lattice glazing and limestone sills. Four-pane timber casement windows to side and rear elevations. Entrance to east wing having square-headed opening with replacement glazed timber door. Square-profile ashlar limestone piers with moulded caps having double-leaf cast-iron gates with spearhead points. Roughcast rendered piers with spearhead-pointed cast-iron railings terminating in second pair of similar piers. 

This country house, set in a mature landscape, is of apparent architectural design. This Georgian building has the regular rhythm of this classically-inspired style with canted end bays which add interest to and enhance the façade. The slightly diminishing windows are a typical feature of high status homes of this period in South Tipperary, emphasising the vertical thrust of the structure. Ornamentation is focused on the highly ornate doorway which is further emphasised by the finely carved limestone steps. The skilfully sculpted Doric pilasters carry the pedimented surround which frames the delicate cobweb fanlight. The building is obviously of several builds, the various returns highlighting its evoultion. The house retains its fine outbuildings arranged around a central courtyard with intact cobbles. The gate lodge is of apparent architectural design and reflects the regular architecture of the main house. 

Archerstown, Thurles, Co Tipperary 

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Archerstown, Thurles, Co Tipperary  – ruin 

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

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

and supplement: 

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

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

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

Appraisal 

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

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

Langley of Coalbrook, Brittas Castle and Archerstown 

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

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

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