Long Orchard, Templemore, 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. 299. “(Power-Lalor/LGI1912) A C18 house of three storeys over basement. Staircase of fine joinery with barleysugar bannisters. Seat of the Lalors; inherited 1852 by Edmond James Power-Lalor, second son of Edmond Power of Gurteen and Anastatia, nee Lalor, who married as her second husband the politician Richard Lalor Shiel. Long Orchard is the setting of Beatrice Coogan’s novel, The Big Wind.” 

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The Lalors were resident at Long Orchard from the mid 18th century. A relative, Edmund Dogherty, was the occupier in 1814. In 1837 Lewis records Richard Lalor Sheil as the proprietor. The Ordnance Survey Name Books in 1840 refer to the house as the residence of the local clergyman, Mr. Thomson. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation he held the property from Richard Lalor Shiel when it was valued at £11. The Power Lalor family were still resident at Long Orchard in the early 20th century. Mrs Stella Power Lalor was the occupant in the early 1940s but the grounds and gardens had gone “wild” (Irish Tourist Association Survey).This house is now demolished.