Aggard, Craughwell, County 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. 2. “(Lambert/IFR) A house of mid to late C18 appearance of two storeys over a high basement. Front of two bay on either side of a central three sided bow incorporating a fanlighted doorcased with rustications, pylons and a keystone surmounted by a pedestal.”
Detached L-plan three-bay two-storey country house with raised basement, built c.1780, with slightly lower canted entrance bay to front (west) elevation, and having one-bay full-height addition to rear to give two-bay north and three-bay south elevations. Now in use as house. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with cut limestone plinth course. Square-headed window openings, round-headed staircase window to rear elevation, all having tooled limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed door opening with cut and carved limestone doorcase with channelled pilasters, moulded lintel, moulded archivolt with fluting, fluted keystone and having finials, with replacement uPVC door and fanlight, approached by flight of cut limestone steps with cut-stone retaining walls and steel railings. Round arched dressed limestone gateway to yard to south of house, having gable with bellcote. Ranges of multiple-bay two-storey outbuildings to yard, having pitched slate roofs and rendered walls, square-headed window and door openings with timber fittings and segmental-headed carriage arches, some with timber battened fittings. Site entrance to road has cast-iron double-leaf gate with cut limestone piers, flanked by rendered quadrant walls. Set within own grounds.
Appraisal
A middle-size country house with a canted bay adding interest. Ornamentation is focused on the fine limestone doorcase with its unusual finials, the entrance being further emphasised by the splayed flight of cut-stone steps. The diminishing windows are a typical feature of high status homes of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The setting of the house is enhanced by its yard of outbuildings.
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In 1786 Wilson refers to Aggard as the seat of Mr. Lambert. In 1837 Lewis recorded Aggard as the seat of J. Lambert. The property at Aggard was being leased by the Lambert family from Reverend Thomas Kelly, at the time of Griffith’s Valuation. Reverend Kelly’s estate, including Aggard, was offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates court in February 1857. In 1894 the seat of J.W.H. Lambert. Aggard House is still extant and occupied.
The Lamberts of Aggard and Kilquaine
Walter Lambert of Creg Clare married Miss Martin of Tullyra and had
John Lambert of Milford.
Peter Lambert of Castle Ellen.
Thomas Lambert.
John Lambert of Milford, Co. Galway, married Mary, daughter of Sir Henry Burke, [9th] Bart. of Glinsk and died 1787 leaving:
Walter of Kilquaine: born after 1750, died without children.
Henry of Aggard – born after 1750, married his first cousin Anne. (Daughter of Thomas Lambert and Elizabeth Wood.) Died 1820 and was succeeded by his nephew:
John Walter Henry (2) [1811-1899]
Thomas of Milford
Jane – unmarried.
Eliza – unmarried.
Letitia – married John Fallon of Runnemead, Co. Roscommon.
A daughter – married Edmund Kelly of Scregg.
Thomas Lambert of Milford - born after 1750, married 5.9.1805 to Lydia, daughter of Cuthbert Fetherstonhaugh, of Mosstown, Ballymore and died 1822 leaving
Mary Ann – married Major Cuthbert Barlow.
Lydia – married George Marshall.
Cecilia – married Colonel W. Nixon.
Charlotte – married Capt. Henry Marshall.
John Walter Henry (2)
Cuthbert Fetherstonhaugh – unmarried.
2. John Walter Henry Lambert of Aggard, J.P. High Sheriff 1855 birth 5.10.1811 married 11.2.1833 Anne, only daughter of William Fetherstonhaugh, of Derrahiney, Co. Galway. She died 20.2.1859. He died 8.4.1899 having by her:
Thomas Walter of Aggard (3) b.1841.
John Henry – born 1844, of Redmount Hill, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway,
married Adelaide Dewe of Gloucestershire.
William Fetherstonhaugh (Lambert) – born 1852 of Donalstone House, Ballyglunin, married his 3rd,. cousin, Ada Lambert.
Anne Caroline – died unmarried 1911.
Charlotte – married Lieut.- Col. Cuthbert Barlow.
Emily Florence – married Charles Kelly of Westmeath.
Elizabeth Jane – married Thomas Barlow.
Marion Marcella – married Col. Charles William Brereton.
Adelaide – married Rev. Robert O’Callaghan of Hull.
Fanny – unmarried.
Alice – married John Lamprey of Hampshire.
3. Thomas Walter Lambert of Aggard and Kilquaine, Co. Galway, born 24.3.1841 married 31.5.1865, Elizabeth, 3rd. daughter of Christopher, St. George of Tyrone House. She died 3.12.1910. He died 11.3.1902 leaving:
Christopher Richard Thomas (4)
John Walter Henry Charles.
Cuthbert Harold, unmarried.
Harry William Reginald – married Lilly Scanlon of Bandon.
Olivia Bessy Josephine – married Walter Mortimer Dyas of Kells.
Charlotte Norah Barlow – married Major William Thomas Conway Poole.
Anne Marion – married William Astle Ryan of Wexford.
Adelaide St. George – married Robert Sparrow.
Guendoleyne Lizzie.
Ethel Beatrice – died young.
Beatrice Helena.
4. Christopher Richard Thomas Lambert of Aggard, J.P. born 29.10.1868,
emigrated to Australia.
John Walter Henry Charles, of Kilquaine, Craughwell, born 20.11.1871 married Mary, Daughter of Rev. John Foot. and had:
Cuthbert Harold – born 24.08.1876
Harry William Reginald – born 17.05.1878
Olivia
Charlotte Norah
Anne Marion
Adelaide St. George
Guendoleyne Lizzie
Ethel Beatrice
Beatrice Helena.
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