Ardkeen, Waterford, Co Waterford

Ardkeen, Waterford, Co Waterford – hospital 

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. 10. “A two storey early to midC19 house with five bay front and single-storey Doric portico. Built by a member of the Quaker family of Malcolmson, who founded the great cotton mills of Portlaw in early C19. Afterwards owned by the Bromhead family. Now a hospital.”

https://www.archiseek.com/1952-ardkeen-sanatorium-waterford-co-waterford/

“In 1947 Waterford County Council acquired Ardkeen house and fifty acres of surrounding land. Ardkeen was an Italianate design, designed by J.S. Mulvany, and constructed between 1864-1866. The house was flanked by quadrant walls with gates and pavilions….”