Sonna, Ballynacarrigy, Co Westmeath
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. 262. “(Tuite). a C18 house consisting of a plain three storey seven bay centre block joined to a three bay single-storey wings by one bay links. Centre block with segmental pedimented doorcase and wall carried up to be roof parapet. One a February night 1783, Sir George Tuite 7th Bt was found murdered in his study here, his brains having been beaten out. His King Charles spaniel, which was with him, had likewise been battered to death. There was no robbery, nor had any papers been disturbed; the murderer was never discovered. 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. Three storey 18C house with flanking single storey wings. Seat of the Tuites. Demolished.
Irish Historic Houses 