Port Hall, Lifford, Co Donegal
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. 233. “(Friere Marreco/LG1952) A house by Michael Priestly, built 1746 for John Vaughan, of Buncrana Castle. Of five bays; the entrance front of two storeys over a concealed basement with an attic above the cornice; the garden front, facing the river Foyle, of three storeys with an attic; the basement on this side constituting a full storey owing to the ground falling away. The attic, on both fronts, is blind except for a Diocletian window in the central pediment-gable; which, on the entrance front, is carried on a three bay breakfront; but on the garden front is floating. The entrance front has a fanlighted doorway with a rusticated surround; there are also rusticatinos round the windows and rusticated quoins. The garden front is quite plain; it is flanked by low, gable-ended buildings running back towards the river and forming a deep court; these were used by Vaughan – who was a merchant – as offices and warehouses. Port Hall is now the home of Anthony Marreco, long associated with Amnesty International.”
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