Bellevue House, Slieverue, Co Kilkenny

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. 38. “(Power/IFR) A three storey Georgian house with a top storey almost as high as those below, creating an unusal effect. Eight bay front; entrance doorway with recessed columns fitted in between two narrower windows, under an unusual 19C two storey canted portico, almost like an Indian verandah, wiht four widely spaced polygonal columns of no recognisable order in each storey, the upper storey forming a covered balcony with a wrought-iron balustrade; the upper entablature being adorned with St. Hubert’s Stag, the crest of the Power family. Prominent moulded string courses; parapeted roof. Entirely plain four bay side elevation. Owned in early C19 by the politician, Richard Lawlor Shiel, MP, from whom it was bought by Patrick Power, MP. Sold 1940 by A.R. Power; afterwards dismantled, the ruin standing for some years until it collapsed.” 

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. 89. A three storey late Georgian house with good Doric doorcase. A strange two storey canted portico was added in the late 19C by the Power family. Dismanteld c. 1940. The ruin has since collapsed.