Newbrook, Co Mayo – 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. 223. “(Bingham, Clanmorris, B/Pb) A mid to late C18 house of two storeys over a basement, possibly by William Leeson. Seven bay entrance front, doorcase with blocked engaged Doric columns and pediment; broad flight of steps up to door. Adjoining front of seven bays, with three bay breakfront; centre windows in lower storey longer than those at the sides. The rooms are said to have been spacious but not very lofty. Irish battlemented tower in grounds. In 1837 the house was gutted by a fire with is said to have burnt for 8 days. Not rebuilt.”

Letters from Georgian Ireland: The Correspondence of Mary Delany 1731-68.

Ed. Angelique Day, foreward by Sybil Connolly. The Friar’s Bush Press, Belfast, UK, 1991.

p. 131. 27 Oct 1732. “I writ to you from Mr Bingham’s, we staid there Tuesday and Wednesday, and were very merry. Left that place on Thursday morning, and dined at another Mr Bingham’s [at Newbrook, Claremorris] about eight miles from Castlebar, uncle of the Mr Bingham we left – a very good, agreeable sort of man, extremely beloved by all the gentlemen of the country; his wife – a plain, country lady, civil, hospitable and an immoderate lover of quadrille; their two eldest daughters are beauties – reserved, well-behaved, but not entertaining, so we passed the day hum-drumish.

The next morning we decamped, and travelled to Tuam; nothing happened on the road remarkable, sometimes I rode, but generally went in the chaise with Phil, that being the way I like best. We got early into our inn, played at my lady’s hole, supped and went early to bed.

The next day we arrived at Mrs Mahone’s [Castlegar], staid there Sunday and Monday, were free and easy, lived as at Killala, everybody went their own way, we danced and sung, and were entertained in a very handsome, friendly manner. We left them Tuesday morning; jogged on through bods, and over plains, and about three miles from the place were to rest, we passed a fine place called Aire’s Court [Eyrescourt in Galway], a great many fine woods and improvements that looked very English.”

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.