Clonyquin (or Clooneyquin), Elphin, Co Roscommon

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. 88. “(French/IFR) A plain two storey three bay Georgian house, originally a shooting lodge but occupied permanently by the Frenches after their original house, about a mile away, was burnt. ..The boyhood home of Percy French, entertainer, writer of immortal Irish songs and watercolourist. Sold ca 1955 by Mr H. A. St G. French; afterwards demolished.

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.