Camla Vale, Monaghan, Co Monaghan
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. 55. (Westenra, Rossmore/B/PB) A late Georgian house of one storey over a high basement… originally belonged to a branch of the Montgomery family. It was bought early in C19 by Lt-Col Henry Westenra, who left it to his nephew, 3rd Lord Rossmore. Post WWII, 6th Lord Rossmore came to live here, having abandoned Rossmore Park.. sold in 1962 and since been demolished.”
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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1780s – Camla Vale, Monaghan, Co. Monaghan
After World War II, when nearby Rossmore Castle developed a severe case of dry rot, the 6th Lord Rossmore and his family were forced to leave the castle and take up residence in Camla Vale, a Georgian house owned by the family. The house was formerly the residence of Lieutenant-Colonel Westenra, brother of Lord Rossmore, A late Georgian house, it was sited outside the demense walls.
It is said that spores of the dry rot fungus were brought to Camla Vale when the wine cellar was transferred from the castle. Apparently it too became infested with dry rot. Camla was sold in 1962 after a contents auction, and has since been demolished. The walled garden and farmyard still exists, but a large ornamental lake dug as a famine project has being filled in.
Described in Lewis: “Camla Vale, of Lieut.- Col. Westenra, brother of Lord Rossmore, a spacious and handsome residence, situated in grounds tastefully laid out and adjoining the demesne of Rossmore Park”.
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