Ledestown, Co Westmeath (also Ladestown)

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. 183. “(Lyons/LGI1912) A late-Georgian house of 1823; two storeys over high basement, five bay bow-ended front. Single-storey portico at head of broad flight of steps with iron railings; wide window above. Entrance hall and staircase hall in middle of house; bifurcating staircase. There was a printing press here in late C19. Now 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. 

p. 144. A two storey house dated 1823 incorporating an earlier 18C house and a tower house. Very fine well detailed Doric portico. Good interior including a very fine imperial staircase with a screen of fluted Doric columns on the first floor landing. Former seat of the Lyons family. Derelict for many years. Demolished.”