Newstown, Tullow, Co Carlow – recently sold
Mark Bence-Jones. A Guide to Irish Country Houses.[originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978; Revised edition 1988 Constable and Company Ltd, London.]
p. 225. “(Eustace-Duckett/IFR) A late-Georgian house with a pillared porch, built 1824-28 to the design of Thomas Alfred Cobden, of Carlow and James Sands, of London; incorporating an earlier house said to date from C17. Sold 1973.”
http://www.igp-web.com/Carlow/Newstown_House_1.htm
Detached five-bay two-storey house, c. 1824, with granite Doric portico and bow windows to sides. Designed by Thomas Cobden, c. 1824. Part remodelled. Designed by James Sands. Interior retains colonnaded hall, chimney pieces and enriched friezes.
Detached five-bay two-storey house, c. 1824, with granite Doric portico and bow windows to sides. Designed by Thomas Cobden, c. 1824. Part remodelled. Designed by James Sands. Interior retains colonnaded hall, chimney pieces and enriched friezes.
Record of Protected Structures:
Newstown House, Tullow. Townland: Newstown.
Detached five-bay, two-storey house c. 1824, with granite Doric portico and bow windows to sides. Designed by Thomas Cobden c. 1824. Part remodelled. Designed by James Sands. Interior retains colonnaded hall, chimney pieces and enriched friezes.
Jimmy O’Toole book, p. 120. [see Eustace of Castlemore]
The Newstown branch of the family was established by Col Robert Eustace, son of Edward Eustace of Castlemore, who purchased the property in 1799 from Ephraim Carroll. The present regency house was built in 1824 and a portion of the earlier house was retained as servants’ quarters. The last member of the family to live there was Edward Arthur Rawlins Eustace, CIE, OBE, born 1899 [p. 121], who served with the 4th Gurka Rifles betwn 1918-1922, and served in the Indian Civil service from 1923-1947. Edward Arthur, who died 1970, had inherited following the death of his cousin Maurice James Eustace, a captain in the Royal Air Force, who was killed in action in Singapore in Feb 1942.
Newstown was subsequently purchased by Paul Byrne, and Allard and Ruth Von Rohr, a German couple. Their daughter, Alexandria, sold the property in the late 1980s and returned to live in Germany.
recently sold €175,000
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