Burke, Thomas (1746-1814) 1st Baronet of Marble Hill Galway

Raford, Athenry, Co Galway 

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Raford, Athenry, Co Galway 

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. 237. “(Daly/IFR and sub Blake/IFR) A three storey house built in late 1750s and attributed by Knight of Glin to Francis Bindon. Breakfront centre with oculus flanked by two small windows above Diocletian window above pedimented and fanlighted tripartite doorway. C19 eaved roof. Hall with staircase and gallery; turned wooden balusters, plasterwork ceiling of a style characteristic of Co Galway, with foliage and trophies; rather similar to the plasterwork at Castle ffrench. Now the home of Mr Charles Bishop.” 

Mount Hazel, Ballymacward, Co Galway – demolished

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Mount Hazel, Ballymacward, Co Galway

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. 213. “(MacEvoy, sub De Stacpoole/IFR) A three storey Georgian house originally belonging to a branch of the Browne family. …Passed to the MacEvoys with the marriage of Teresa Browne to Edward MacEvoy 1850; their daughter and heiress, Pauline, married 4th Duke de Stacpoole. Demolished 1945.” 

Nicholas Browne (d. 1816) m. Ellen daughter of Thomas Burke, 1st Baronet, and they had a son, Andrew. Andrew’s daughter Eliza Teresa Browne (d. 1904) married Edward Francis MacEvoy (1826-1899) from Tobertynan, County Meath.

Not in national inventory 

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.

Marble Hill House, Balynakill, Co Galway – ruin

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Marble Hill House, Balynakill, Co Galway – ‘lost’

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. 201. “(Burke, Bt/PB) A house built ca 1775 by John Burke, and enlarged post 1813 by Sir John Burke, 2nd Bt. Of three storeys over a high basement; entrance front with one bay on either side of a three-sided bow; doorcase with rusticated pilasters. Side elevation of two bays and a further two bays projecting forwards. Now a ruin.” 

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.

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