Timoney Park, Roscrea, Co Tipperary
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. 304. (Parker-Hutchinson/LGI1912) A C19 Tudor-Gothic house with a tower at one side…”
Ruins of detached multiple-bay two-storey country house, built c. 1840, having three-stage square tower at north-west corner, canted bay windows to north and south elevations and single-storey service wing to north. Tower has pointed windows with hood mouldings, slit windows and decorative trefoil corbel table to crellated parapet. Ruins of walled garden to north. No roofs remain. Rendered and triple octagonal chimneys. Rendered limestone walls with squared quoins and rendered plinth. Square-headed openings with label mouldings with decorative stops. Two-storey outbuilding to site with rubble walls and barrel-shaped roof.
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The now ruined Timoney Park nonetheless presents an imposing edifice visible from nearby roads. It is of apparent architectural design and still retains decorative details such as label mouldings, trefoil carvings, and crenellations.
In Blake, Tarquin. Abandoned Mansions of Ireland II: More Portraits of Forgotten Stately Homes. Collins Press, Cork, 2012.
“(Parker-Hutchinson/LGI1912) A C19 Tudor-Gothic house with a tower at one side…”
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This house was the seat of the Hutchinson family in the 19th century. Lewis refers to the great improvements made by J.D. Hutchinson at Timoney. By the mid 19th century the house was valued at £51 and was held in fee. It was occupied by Standish Grady J. Hutchinson in 1906. It is now a roofless ruin.
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