Fuller, James Franklin (1835-1924)

Scart, Castlegrove, Co Kerry 

by jenjunebug

Scart, Castlegrove, Co Kerry 

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. 255. “A house of late-Georgian appearance with gables, but without any gothic or Tudor-Revival touches. Of one storey over a high basement and with an attic. Entrance front with recessed centre between one bay gabled projections; fanlighted entrance door under the eaves of the roof. In the C19, home of the Jermyn family.”

https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/21310701/scart-house-scart-ma-by-co-kerry

Detached H-plan three-bay single-storey over raised basement house with dormer attic, built c. 1825. Comprising single-bay single-storey recessed entrance bay to centre with elliptical-headed door opening approached by flight of steps, single-bay single-storey gabled projecting end bays and pair of single-bay single-storey returns to rear to north-east. Undergoing extensive renovation in 1998. Pitched and hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered rubble stone walls having battered base to some walls. Limestone sills and timber lintels, several replaced in concrete, to timber six-over-six pane sliding sash windows. Semi-elliptical red brick arched doorway with timber doorcase, panelled door, spoked fanlight and sliding sash sidelights. Retaining interior features. Detached three-bay two-storey rubble stone-built outbuilding, built c. 1825, with square-headed integral carriage arch to right ground floor and door opening to first floor of south gable end approached by flight of steps. Set within own grounds.


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

James F. Bland was leasing a house valued at £10 15s to William Jermyn at the time of Griffith’s Valuation. Bary states that Scart house was occupied for several generations of the Jermyn family before being sold in the 1890s. It is still extant and occupied.  

https://search.savills.com/ie/en/property-detail/gbcounduy180094

  • History
    Originally built in 1823 by William Jermyn, Scart House has been merited with national recognition and awards in the late 1990’s for its history of conservation works protecting its architectural and period features.

    It is also famous as being the birthplace of James Franklin Fuller, one of Ireland’s foremost Victorian architects and responsible for some of the country’s finest works of art including Kylemore Abbey, Ashford Castle, Parknasilla, Farmleigh and the Gardener’s Lodge in St Stephens Green.

    Description
    Scart House is a truly wonderful Georgian country and coastal house which is one of the finest restorations for a property of its era in South Kerry. Situated in a sheltered glade just 400m from the shoreline, its unrivalled location directly on the Ring of Kerry enhances its appeal alongside its beautiful example of Georgian architectural design. Built on a H-plan, it is a three-bay, single-storey over raised basement house and the roof is capped with Valentia slate. Extensive restoration works of the property have been undertaken during a thirty-year period, including works to the original roof in 2007.

    Fronted by stone piers, the imposing residence is approached by an impressive avenue with mature trees on each side. A flight of steps leads up to the front door with fan light above, which is at first floor level of the South gable and opens into a wide entrance hall with two of the six reception rooms on either side. On the right is a dining room for entertaining and a drawing room on the left. A central hallway connects to the master bedroom of the house and two further double bedrooms on the first floor with a bathroom.

    The main living accommodation is on the ground floor level with kitchen, pantry, utility room, WC, study, main bathroom and two further bedrooms. The interior over the two floors is characteristic of its Georgian era with ornate cornicing, sash windows and architraves and all renovated to a beautiful contemporary design.

    Gardens and Grounds
    Set within private grounds of about 1.42 acres (0.60 hectares) in total, the grounds are well presented and divided amongst gardens, lawns and paddocks. A range of outbuildings on the grounds include outdoor wood cabin, log shed and a traditional stone cut outhouse. There is also a herb garden, orchard, glasshouse and a pagola covers a stone patio on the western side of the house, ideal for watching the sun set.

    BER Details – BER Exempt

Local information

  • Castlecove is an idyllic coastal village situated in the Iveragh Peninsula on the famous Ring of Kerry, arguably Irelands most beautiful coastline road. It is an area renowned for its picturesque surroundings of mountains and views across the Kenmare Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. The nearby Castlecove village offers a grocery shop, coffee shop, pub, church and Staigue Fort House & B and B. O’Carroll’s Cove Beach Bar and Seafood Restaurant is located close by and is a renowned award-winning restaurant, while further amenities can be found a short drive away in the picturesque towns of Sneem (14km) and Kenmare (40km).
  • This location on the Ring of Kerry enjoys breath-taking 360-degree views of the Caha mountains on the Beara Peninsula to the East and McGillicuddy Reeks and Staigue Fort to the North. Nearby Castlecove beach is a wonderful sandy beach and as for sailing and fishing enthusiasts, Westcove Harbour (2.5km) offers secure and sheltered anchorage.
  • South Kerry offers a plethora of activities along its scenic coastline, including the magnificent Skellig Michael, whale and dolphin watching, Kerry Geopark in Sneem, Derrynane Historic House and Gardens and Killarney National Park. The Kerry International Dark-Sky Reserve, being one of only two gold tier sky reserves in the Northern Hemisphere, is a rare area of exceptional quality, starry nights and nocturnal environment, a protected place of natural darkness at night.

Additional information

  • Directions: Eircode V93 W6W3

https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/scart-house-scart-castlecove-co-kerry-v93-w6w3/4327320

A magnificent Georgian house set on the scenic Ring of Kerry with sea views History Originally built in 1823 by William Jermyn, Scart House has been merited with national recognition and awards in the late 1990’s for its history of conservation works protecting its architectural and period features. It is also famous as being the birthplace of James Franklin Fuller, one of Ireland’s foremost Victorian architects and responsible for some of the country’s finest works of art including Kylemore Abbey, Ashford Castle, Parknasilla, Farmleigh and the Gardener’s Lodge in St Stephens Green. Description Scart House is a truly wonderful Georgian country and coastal house which is one of the finest restorations for a property of its era in South Kerry. Situated in a sheltered glade just 400m from the shoreline, its unrivalled location directly on the Ring of Kerry enhances its appeal alongside its beautiful example of Georgian architectural design. Built on a H-plan, it is a three-bay, single-storey over raised basement house and the roof is capped with Valentia slate. Extensive restoration works of the property have been undertaken during a thirty-year period, including works to the original roof in 2007. Fronted by stone piers, the imposing residence is approached by an impressive avenue with mature trees on each side.

A flight of steps leads up to the front door with fan light above, which is at first floor level of the South gable and opens into a wide entrance hall with two of the six reception rooms on either side. On the right is a dining room for entertaining and a drawing room on the left. A central hallway connects to the master bedroom of the house and two further double bedrooms on the first floor with a bathroom. The main living accommodation is on the ground floor level with kitchen, pantry, utility room, WC, study, main bathroom and two further bedrooms. The interior over the two floors is characteristic of its Georgian era with ornate cornicing, sash windows and architraves and all renovated to a beautiful contemporary design.

Gardens and Grounds Set within private grounds of about 1.42 acres (0.60 hectares) in total, the grounds are well presented and divided amongst gardens, lawns and paddocks. A range of outbuildings on the grounds include outdoor wood cabin, log shed and a traditional stone cut outhouse. There is also a herb garden, orchard, glasshouse and a pagola covers a stone patio on the western side of the house, ideal for watching the sun set.

Castlecove is an idyllic coastal village situated in the Iveragh Peninsula on the famous Ring of Kerry, arguably Irelands most beautiful coastline road. It is an area renowned for its picturesque surroundings of mountains and views across the Kenmare Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. The nearby Castlecove village offers a grocery shop, coffee shop, pub, church and Staigue Fort House & B and B. O’Carroll’s Cove Beach Bar and Seafood Restaurant is located close by and is a renowned award-winning restaurant, while further amenities can be found a short drive away in the picturesque towns of Sneem (14km) and Kenmare (40km). This location on the Ring of Kerry enjoys breath-taking 360-degree views of the Caha mountains on the Beara Peninsula to the East and McGillicuddy Reeks and Staigue Fort to the North. Nearby Castlecove beach is a wonderful sandy beach and as for sailing and fishing enthusiasts, Westcove Harbour (2.5km) offers secure and sheltered anchorage. South Kerry offers a plethora of activities along its scenic coastline, including the magnificent Skellig Michael, whale and dolphin watching, Kerry Geopark in Sneem, Derrynane Historic House and Gardens and Killarney National Park. The Kerry International Dark-Sky Reserve, being one of only two gold tier sky reserves in the Northern Hemisphere, is a rare area of exceptional quality, starry nights and nocturnal environment, a protected place of natural darkness at night.

Features

  • Imposing Georgian house on the Ring of Kerry
  • 5 bedrooms with master ensuite
  • Approx. 3, 057 sq ft
  • About 1.42 acres (0.60 hectares) 
  • Magnificent setting with sea views

BER Details

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Directions

Eircode V93 W6W3

Baronston House (or Baronstown), Ballinacargy, Co Westmeath – demolished

by jenjunebug

Baronston House (or Baronstown), Ballinacargy, Co Westmeath

Baronstown , County Westmeath entrance front, collection: Geoffrey Brooke, Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland by The Knight of Glin, David J. Griffin and Nicholas K. Robinson, published by The Irish Architectural Archive and The Irish Georgian Society, 1988.

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. 33. “(Malone, Sunderlin, B/DEP; Malone/LGI1912) A late C18 house consisting of a three storey centre block joined to two storey wings by curved sweeps; largely built by Richard Malone, 1st and last Lord Sunderlin, who is immortalised in Sir John Betjeman’s poem, Sir John Piers: 

“And from the North, lest you, Malone, should spy me 

You, Sunderlin of Baronstown, the peer, 

I’ll fill your eye with all the stone that’s by me 

And live four-square protected in my fear.” 

The centre block had a seven bay front with a pedimented breakfront; oeil de boeuf window in pediment; three bay projecting porch. The wings were of five bays. After suffering two successive fires, the centre block was replaced 1903 by a large gabled Edwardian villa to the design of James Franklin Fuller; The original eighteenth century curved sweeps and wings remaining on either side, to produce an effect of grotesque incongruity. Sold ca 1929, afterwards demolished.” 

And from the Nonrth, lest you, Malone, should spy me,

You, Sunderlin of Baronstown, the peer,

I’ll fill your eye with all the stone that’s by me

And live four-square protected in my fear.

The centre block had a seven bay front with a pedimented breakfront, oeil de boeuf window in pediment; three bay projecting porch. The wings were of five bays. After suffering two successive fires, the centre block was replaced 1903 by a large gabled Edwardian villa to the design of James Franklin Fuller; the original C18 curved sweeps and wings remaining on either side, to produce an effect of grotesque incongruity. Sold ca 1929, afterwards demolished.”

Richard Malone (d. 1816) had no children. He had a brother, Edmond Malone (1741-1812) who was a barrister and Shakespearean scholar.

Listed in Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland by The Knight of Glin, David J. Griffin and Nicholas K. Robinson, published by The Irish Architectural Archive and The Irish Georgian Society, 1988. 

p. 141. A large three storey pedimented house built in 1755 for Richard Malone 1st Lord Sunderlin, with flanking pavilions joined to the main block by quadrants. The house was rebuilt in 1889, following a fire. Following another fire in 1903 the main block was completely rebuit to the design of James Franklin Fuller in the Tudor manor house style. Demolished.

https://archiseek.com/2012/1780s-baronston-house-ballynacargy-co-westmeath

Baronston also known as Baronstown, was a three-storey centre block joined to two-storey wings by curved sweeps. In 1903, a large, gabled, Edwardian villa was constructed on the site of the central block, with the sweeps and wings remaining on either side. This replacement was built twice by James Franklin Fuller, rebuilt first ‘for the late Col Malone’ and second on a smaller scale for ‘the present Col. Malone’ after successive fires. Baronston was sold in 1929. 

1780s – Baronston House, Ballynacargy, Co. Westmeath 

http://lordbelmontinnorthernireland.blogspot.com/2014/02/baronston-house.html

THE MALONES WERE MAJOR LANDOWNERS IN COUNTY WESTMEATH, WITH 13,715 ACRES 

EDMOND MALONE, of Ballynahown, married, in 1569, Margaret, daughter of Richard Dalton, of Milltown, by whom he had issue, one son,

EDMOND MALONE, of Ballynahown, who wedded firstly, in 1599, Rose, daughter of John Coghlan (The Maw); and secondly, Catherine Pettyt.

By the latter he had a son, John, who was settled at Cartrons, County Westmeath, in the neighbourhood of his father, and a daughter, Mary; and by the former he was father of a son and heir,

EDMOND MALONE, of Ballynahown, who espoused, in 1617, a daughter of Garrett Byrne, and left a son and successor,

EDMOND MALONE, of Ballynahown, who married, in 1644, Mary, daughter of Brazel Fox, of Kilcoursy, and had two sons,

EDMOND, his heir; 
ANTHONY, ancestor of BARON SUNDERLIN.

The younger son,


ANTHONY MALONE, of Baronston, married, in 1673, Mary, daughter of John Reilly, of Lismore, County Cavan, and granddaughter of the Earl of Roscommon, and was father of


RICHARD MALONE (1674-), of Baronston, the celebrated lawyer and orator, who wedded, in 1698, Marcella, daughter of Richard Molady, by Mary his wife, daughter of John Malone, of Cartrons, and had issue,

ANTHONY (Rt Hon), MP;
Edmond, MP; father of RICHARD, 1st BARON SUNDERLIN;
Richard, MP;
Anne Jane Frances; Mary; Margaret; Marcella.

The elder son of Edmond Malone and Mary Fox his wife,


EDMOND MALONE, of Ballynahown, High Sheriff of County Westmeath, 1756-7, wedded, in 1674, Anne, daughter of Henry L’Estrange, of Moystown, King’s County, and had (with a daughter) three sons,

RICHARD, of Ballynahown;
Henry;
Anthony (1700-76).

The eldest son,

RICHARD MALONE (1706-59), of Ballynahown, espoused, in 1717, Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Crosbie, of Ballyheigue, County Kerry, and had issue,

Edmond, MP for Ardfert; dsp 1759;
HENRY, his heir;
Anthony (Rev);
Elizabeth.

The second son,

HENRY MALONE, of Ballynahown, married Anne, daughter of Henry Morres Jones, of Moneyglass, County Antrim, and had a son,

EDMOND MALONE, of Ballynahown, who wedded, in 1774, his cousin Mary, eldest daughter of John O’Connor, of Mount Pleasant, King’s County, and had issue,

EDMOND, of whom presently;
John;
Henry;
Maria; Anne.

His eldest son,

EDMOND MALONE, of Ballynahown, Captain, Black Horse Regiment, espoused, in 1813, Henrietta, daughter of John Chomley, of Belcamp, County Dublin.

He died in 1818, and left issue,

Edmond, died unmarried, 1836;
JOHN RICHARD, of whom hereafter;
Harriette.

The only surviving son,

JOHN RICHARD MALONE JP DL (1817-94), of Baronston, High Sheriff of County Westmeath, 1852, married firstly, in 1844, Elizabeth, daughter of Colonel Henry Peisley L’Estrange, of Moystown, King’s County, and by her had issue,

JOHN RICHARD, his successor;
Henry L’Estrange.

He wedded secondly, in 1868, Anna Jane, youngest daughter of Robert William Lowry DL, of Pomeroy, County Tyrone, and Belmore, County Westmeath.

His eldest son,

JOHN RICHARD MALONE JP DL (1846-), High Sheriff of County Westmeath, 1896, Colonel Commanding 6th Battalion, Rifle Brigade, espoused firstly, in 1872, Charlotte Mildred, daughter of the Hon John Yarde Buller, and sister of John, 2nd Baron Churston, and had issue,

JOHN RICHARD MORDRED HENRY L’ESTRANGE;
Roderick O’Connor Vivian Henry Vere;
Victor Mildred Charles.

Colonel Malone wedded secondly, in 1893, Catherine Cecil, daughter of Major J W Percy, and had further issue,

Henry Anthony Percy;
Richard Maurice Fitzgerald;
Barbara Grace Maria Patricia.

BARONSTON HOUSE, Ballynacargy, County Westmeath, was a late 18th century house consisting of a three-storey centre block joined to two-storey wings by curved sweeps.

The centre block had a seven-bay front with a pedimented breakfront; a three-bay projecting porch; wings of five bays.

Having suffered a series of fires, the centre block was replaced, in 1903, by a large, gabled, Edwardian villa, with the sweeps and wings remaining on either side.

Baronston was sold in 1929 and subsequently demolished.

Sunderlin arms courtesy of European Heraldry.  First published in January, 2012.

https://theirishaesthete.com/2025/07/25/kilbixy-church/

Death is the Door of Life

by theirishaesthete

The Malone Mausoleum in the graveyard of Kilbixy, County Westmeath, photograph by Robert O’Byrne.
The Malone Mausoleum in the graveyard of Kilbixy, County Westmeath, photograph by Robert O’Byrne.



The Malone Mausoleum in the graveyard of Kilbixy, County Westmeath was erected in the late 18th century, its design attributed to James Wyatt who is thought also to have been responsible for the adjacent St Bigseach’ church. The building was commissioned by Richard Malone, first (and last) Baron Sunderlin who lived nearby in the long-lost Baronston House. Faced with ashlar limestone, it takes the form of a weighty square block on a stepped base plinth above which rises a pyramidal roof. Comparisons have been made with the mausolea of Halicarnassus and Knidos, and, with regard to the north-east elevation, the fourth century BC Choragic Monument of Thrasyllos on the south face of Athens’ Acropolis. The building’s Greek cross interior contains three sarcophagi, one for Malone, one for his late uncle Anthony Malone (whose extensive estates he had inherited) and one for his brother Edmond, a well-known Shakespearean scholar of the period. Access to the interior is via double doors, above which is an inscription reading ‘Mors Janua Vitae’ (Death is the Door of Life) while on the south-west can be seen the Malone coat of arms with the inscription ‘Fidelis at Urnam’ (Faithful until Death). Thanks to the Follies Trust, the mausoleum underwent extensive restoration in 2023 but recently a tree in the graveyard came down beside it and while this does not appear to have damaged the main structure, the cast-iron railings may have suffered. 

The Malone Mausoleum in the graveyard of Kilbixy, County Westmeath, photograph by Robert O’Byrne.
The Malone Mausoleum in the graveyard of Kilbixy, County Westmeath, photograph by Robert O’Byrne.

Ballyburly, Edenderry, Co Offaly

by jenjunebug

Ballyburly, Edenderry, Co Offaly – does not survive

Ballyburly, County Offaly, entrance front, Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland by The Knight of Glin, David J. Griffin and Nicholas K. Robinson, published by The Irish Architectural Archive and The Irish Georgian Society, 1988.

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. “(Wakely;LGI1912) Of late C17 or early C18, probably built either by John Wakely who was MP for Kilbeggan in 1692 and died ca. 1713, or by his son Thomas….Burnt 1888; afterwards rebuilt to the design of James Franklin Fuller.”

Listed in Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland by The Knight of Glin, David J. Griffin and Nicholas K. Robinson, published by The Irish Architectural Archive and The Irish Georgian Society, 1988. 

p. 121. “An important two storey late 17C or early 18C house built for John Wakely or his son Thomas. Burnt in 1888.”

https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/14904007/ballyburly-house-ballyburly-county-offaly

Outbuildings, entrance gates, walled garden and graveyard of the former Ballyburly House, built c.1800. Ballyburly House and church do not survive. Two-storey outbuildings with pitched slate roofs, pebbledashed walls and replacement windows and doors, now in use as houses. The main entrance gates to the estate comprises ashlar limestone piers flanked by rock-faced ashlar limestone walls. 

Though the main house and church do not survive, two ranges of the former outbuildings have been converted into houses and are still in occupation. The graveyard to Ballyburly Church survives in a neglected and overgrown state. 

Callinafercy House, Milltown, Co Kerry 

by jenjunebug

Callinafercy House, Milltown, Co Kerry 

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. 293. “(Leeson-Marshall, sub Milltown, E/PB) A Victorian Tudor house of 1861, built for Robert Leeson, grandson of 1st Earl of Milltown. Symmetrical front of three steep gables with a gabled enclosed porch; tall chimneystacks, single-storey three sided bow at end. Spacious rooms, attractive drawing room. The house was enlarged ca 1909, to the design of James Franklin Fuller. Now the home of Prof and Mrs B McK. Bary, having come to Mrs Bary from her cousin Mrs Ruth, nee Leeson-Marshall.” 

https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/21305601/callanafercy-house-callanafersy-west-co-kerry

Callinafercy House, Co Kerry courtesy National Inventory.

Detached three-bay two-storey triple-gable-fronted Jacobean Revival style house, dated 1861, with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to centre and single-bay side elevations having single-storey flat-roofed projecting canted bay window to south elevation. Extended to south-west, c. 1910, comprising three-bay two-storey Jacobean Revival style parallel block with dormer attic and three-bay two-storey return with dormer attic on a T-shaped plan comprising three-bay two-storey staggered parallel range and two-bay two-storey projecting bay with dormer attic at right angles to south west. Steeply pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, gable copings, grouped chimneystacks, ball finials to springers, profiled cast-iron gutters and square downpipes. Roughcast rendered walls with render moulded plinth. Exposed rubble stone walls with ashlar quoins to part of north wing and including blocked openings. Render shield to central gable of facade. Paired or tripled timber one-over-one pane sliding sash windows with limestone sills, render architraves and hood mouldings on lion-head bosses. Projecting gabled porch with square-headed door openings having timber four-panel doors to either side of porch. Stable complex, built c. 1865, to south-west about a courtyard comprising: Detached four-bay single-storey range retaining original fenestration. Detached two-bay single-storey stone-built outbuilding. Detached four-bay single-storey rubble stone-built range with corrugated-iron roof. Detached two-bay two-storey house with two-bay single-storey wing to south. Detached two-bay single-storey outbuilding with pair of square-headed integral carriage arches. Gateway to courtyard comprising pair of rubble stone piers with cast-iron gates. Gateway, built c. 1865, to north-east comprising four cut-stone piers with cast-iron gates and railings. 

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

Robert Leeson was leasing Callanafersy House to Ephraim Williams at the time of Griffith’s Valuation, when it was valued at £12 5s. Bary indicates that this house was leased by the Williams family and probably had been built by them earlier in the nineteenth century. It is still extant and occupied.   

Burnham House, near Dingle, Co Kerry 

by jenjunebug

Burnham House, near Dingle, Co Kerry 

Burnham Manor, Dingle, County Kerry, photograph by Robert French, Lawrence Photographic 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. 50. “(Eveleigh de Moleyns, sub Ventry, B.PB) From its appearance, a three story seven bay Georgian block enlarged by the addition of two storey wings, refaced and embellished in the late C19. Entrance front with central feature of engaged Doric columns supporting sections of entablature and a steep pediment above a balustraded and pedimented Doric porte-cochere; tympana of pediments decorated with acanthus carving. Eaved roof on centre and wings; that of the centre being on a modillion cornice. Garden front with two storey rectangular projections in the centre and three sided bows at the ends of wings. Now an institution.” 

https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/21305304/colaiste-ide-burnham-demesne-burnham-demesne-burnham-east-co-kerry

Burnham House, Co Kerry courtesy National Inventory.

Detached seven-bay three-storey late-Georgian house, built c. 1800, with six-bay elevation to rear to north-east having pair of two-bay two-storey flat-roofed advanced bays. Extensively reconstructed and extended, c. 1890, with prostyle tetrastyle granite Doric porte cochere inserted to ground floor having pedimented two-storey granite Doric frontis over. Five-bay two-storey lateral wings added to north-west and to south-east comprising three-bay two-storey links with two-bay two-storey advanced pavilion blocks having three-bay two-storey canted projecting bays to north-east elevations. Extended to south-east, c. 1925, on a U-shaped plan comprising nine-bay two-storey wing with two-bay two-storey gabled advanced end bay to south-east and pair of six-bay two-storey returns to rear to north-west. Attached five-bay double-height chapel, built c. 1925, to south-east with round-headed window openings and single-bay double-height polygonal apse to south-east gable end having bellcote to gable; now in use as school. Pitched and hipped slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, cast-iron profiled gutters forming corona of eaves cornice, rendered chimneystacks with cornices and modillion cornice at eaves. Painted and rendered walls with projecting and incised string courses, recessed plaques between first and second floors having festoons, and having render architrave with keystones at ground floor. Prostyle tetrastyle Doric portico with tetrastyle pedimented centrepiece above – all in limestone. Timber one-over-one pane sliding sash windows to centre block, two-over-two pane sliding sash windows to north west wing and six-over-six sliding sash windows to south wing having limestone sills. Timber double-leaf doors to entrance flanked by pilaster strips with consoles. Interiors are predominantly late-Victorian in style. Stable complex, built c. 1850, to north about a courtyard comprising; detached thirteen-bay two-storey stone-built building on an L-shaped plan with seven-bay two-storey range having series of segmental-headed integral carriage arches to ground floor and six-bay two-storey wing at right angle to south having single-bay single-storey lean-to recessed end bay to south gable end, wing now derelict. Detached five-bay two-storey building retaining early fenestration, now disused and partly derelict. Pair of semi-detached three-bay single-storey buildings retaining original fenestration with square-headed shared integral carriage arch to centre. Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c. 1850, to west retaining original aspect with single-bay single-storey gabled advanced entrance bay to centre and single-storey canted bay window to north elevation. 

https://archiseek.com/2017/1874-burnham-house-dingle-co-kerry/

1874 – Burnham House, Dingle, Co. Kerry 

Architect: J.F. Fuller 

Burnham House, Co Kerry courtesy Archiseek.
Burnham House, Co Kerry courtesy Archiseek.

Originally a three-storey, seven bay Georgian block of around 1790. It was later enlarged by the addition of two-storey wings. Later the house was re-faced by J.F. Fuller and the portico and porte-cochère added creating the house we see today. The garden front has two-storey, rectangular projections in the centre, with three-sided bows at the ends of the wings. 

Burnham House was seat of Barons Ventry, the family sold it soon after 1922 to the Irish Land Commission with later internal alterations and extensions by Office of Public Works. It is now Coláiste Ide, an Irish-language secondary boarding school for girls. 

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Lord Ventry held a house valued at £49 at Burnham East, barony of Corkaguiny, at the time of Griffith’s Valuation. Lewis mentions that the family lived for much of the time in England and the house was occupied by their agent, David Thompson. The Ordnance Survey Name Books indicate that the house had been built c.1790 at a cost of £4000. Wilson, however, refers to Burnham as the seat of Thomas Mullins in 1786. Later, members of Lord Ventry’s family resided there. It was still owned by Lord Ventry in 1906 when the house was valued at £80 and ancillary buildings at Burnham West valued at £28. The property was sold to the Land Commission in the 1920s and the house became an Irish speaking secondary school for girls, Coláiste Íde, which is still in operation.   

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THE BARONS VENTRY WERE THE SECOND LARGEST LANDOWNERS IN COUNTY KERRY, WITH 93,629 ACRES 

This noble family derives from a common ancestor with that of Molyneux, Earls of Sefton, namely, 

SIR RICHARD MOLYNEUX, Knight, of Sefton, Lancashire, from whom descended 

WILLIAM MOLYNS, of Burnham, Norfolk, descended from the ancient family of MOLYNS of Sandhill, Hampshire, itself a scion of the old baronial house of DE MOLEYNS OF HENLEY, whose heiress of line, ELEANOR MOLEYNS, married Sir Robert Hungerford, Knight. 

Mr Molyns married firstly, the daughter and heir of William Montague; and secondly, Emily, daughter William Walrond, of Bovey, Devon, by whom he had a younger son, 

RICHARD MOLEYNS or MOLINS, of Mitford, Norfolk, who wedded Jane, eldest daughter of Sir Alexander Culpeper, Knight, of Bedgebury, and was father of 

FREDERICK WILLIAM MULLINS, a colonel in the army, who settled in Ireland, and obtained considerable grants in the province of Ulster, which he sold, and purchased estates in County Kerry. 

Mr Mullins sat in two successive parliaments in the reign of WILLIAM III. 

He wedded Jane, daughter and co-heiress of the Very Rev John Eveleigh, Dean of Cork, and by had issue, 

FREDERICK; 
Richard; 
Edward; 
Samuel. 

The eldest son, 

FREDERICK MULLINS (1663-95), wedded, in 1685, Martha, eldest daughter of Thomas Blennerhassett, and granddaughter maternally of Dermot, 5th Baron Inchiquin, and by her had issue, an only son, 

 
WILLIAM MULLINS, of Burnham, County Kerry, who espoused, in 1716, Mary, daughter of George Rowan. 

Mr Mullins died in 1761, and left, with a daughter, Anne, an only son, 

THOMAS MULLINS (1736-1824) who was created a baronet, 1797; and elevated to the peerage, in 1800, as BARON VENTRY, of Ventry, County Kerry. 

He wedded, in 1775, Elizabeth, daughter of Townsend Gunn, of Rattoo, in the same county, and had issue, 

WILLIAM TOWNSEND, his successor; 
Townsend, father of THOMAS TOWNSEND AREMBERG, 3rd Baron; 
Thomas; 
Richard; 
Edward, a major in the army; 
Frederick, in holy orders; 
Theodora; Elizabeth; Arabella; Charlotte; Catherine; Helena Jane. 

His lordship was succeeded by his eldest son, 

WILLIAM TOWNSEND, 2nd Baron (1761-1827), who espoused firstly, in 1784, Sarah Anne, daughter of Sir Riggs Falkiner Bt, and had issue, 

ANNA; 

Elizabeth. 

His lordship wedded secondly, in 1790, Frances Elizabeth, only daughter of Isaac Sage, which marriage was dissolved, 1796; and thirdly, in 1797, Clara, daughter of Benjamin Jones, and had issue, 

THOMAS (1798-1817). 

The 2nd Baron died without male issue, when the honours devolved upon his nephew, 

THOMAS TOWNSEND, 3rd Baron (1786-1868). 

The heir apparent is the present holder’s only son Hon. Francis Wesley Daubeney de Moleyns (born 1965). 

BURNHAM HOUSE (or Manor), near Dingle, County Kerry, comprises a three-storey, seven bay Georgian block enlarged by the addition of two-storey wings, which were re-faced during the late 19th century.

The entrance front boasts engaged Doric columns which support sections of entablature and a steep pediment above a porte-cochère.

The roof is eaved on the centre and wings; while the centre has a modillion cornice.

The garden front has two-storey, rectangular projections in the centre; with three-sided bows at the ends of the wings.

Burnham House was sold to the Irish Land Commission in the 1920s and is now a girls’ boarding school. 

Other former residence ~ Lindsay Hall, Branksome, Dorset.

First published in April, 2011.

St. Anne’s (also Thornhill), Clontarf, Dublin – ‘lost’ 

by jenjunebug

St. Anne’s (also Thornhill), Clontarf, Dublin – ‘lost’ 

St. Anne’s, Dublin entrance front with garden party 1912, Gillman Collection, Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland by The Knight of Glin, David J. Griffin and Nicholas K. Robinson, published by The Irish Architectural Archive and The Irish Georgian Society, 1988.

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

p. 252. “(Guinness, Bt/PB; Plunket, B/PB) The most palatial house to be built in Ireland during second half of C19; on the northern shore of Dublin Bay, approached by a long, straight avenue which crossed over a public road on its way. The original Georgian house here, known as Thornhill, was pulled down ca 1850 by Benjamin Guinness, afterwards the 1st Bt, head of the Guinness Brewery, and an Italianate house by Millard of Dublin built in its stead. Then, ca 1880, Sir Benjamin’s son Arthur, 1st and last Lord Ardilaun, doubled thehouse in size and made it into a palace comparable to the best of the mansions being built at that period in the USA by people such as the Vanderbilts, in taste no less than in grandeur… The architect of the building was James Franklin Fuller, the work being completed by George Ashlin…In the gardens, which were regarded as beautiful even by those who, like Lennox Robinson, thought the ouse too pretentious, there was a lakeside temple and a long clipped alley lined with statues. …When Lady Ardilaun died, 1925, St. Anne’s was inherited by her husband’s nephew, the Most Rev Hon Benjamin Plunket, former Bishop of Meath. Lady Gregory noted how Mrs Plunket was “very anxious to do what is right for Ireland by keeping up the place, 17 labourers paid every Saturday.” In 1939, however, St. Anne’s was acquired by Dublin Corporation, and in 1943, when it was being used as an ARP store – wits said as a store for firelighting equipment – the house was partially gutted by fire. It stood derelict until 1968, when it was completely demolished.” 

Arthur Guinness (1768-1855) by Martin Cregan, courtesy of Adam’s auction 13 Oct 2015. Provenance: St. Annes, Clontarf, and by descent in the family.
Arthur Guinness of Beaumont, J.P. (1768-1855), courtesy of National Gallery of Ireland.

Listed in Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland. by The Knight of Glin, David J. Griffin and Nicholas K. Robinson, published by The Irish Architectural Archive and The Irish Georgian Society, 1988.

p. 65. “…Rich interior; entrance hall with Roman Ionic columns leading to a vast top-lit inner hall, wiht a gallery supported on Roman Ionic columns. To the right was the imperial main staircase in marble and on the left a palm court. The house was further enlarged to the design of George Ashlin who also designed the stables…”