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Camla Vale, Monaghan, Co. Monaghan
After World War II, when nearby Rossmore Castle developed a severe case of dry rot, the 6th Lord Rossmore and his family were forced to leave the castle and take up residence in Camla Vale, a Georgian...
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1814 – Newbliss House, Newbliss, Co. Monaghan
An early 19th century house of two storeys with a five bay main front. The enclosed porch features two Ionic columns. Owned by the Ker family who largely developed the village of Newbliss, and by 1800...
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1830 – Ballybay House, Ballybay, Co. Monaghan
Architect: John B. Keane Ballybay House, residence of Edward John Henry Leslie C.M.G., M.V.O; (1890-1966), British Ambassador to Rome, which was destroyed by the IRA on 2nd June 1921. It was two...
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1773 – Abbeyleix House, Abbeyleix, Co. Laois
Architect: James Wyatt A seven-bay, three-storey over basement with dormer attic Classical-style country house, begun 1773, with a pedimented breakfront having a cut stone Doric door-case to the ground...
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1851 – Lismore Castle, Co. Waterford
Architect: William Atkinson / Joseph Paxton / A.W.N. Pugin / John Gregory Crace Originally built in 1185 by King John, Lismore Castle was owned in turn by Sir Walter Raleigh and Richard Boyle, First...
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1845 – Wells House, Gorey, Co. Wexford
Architect: Daniel Robertson Tudor Gothic remodelling of house, and landscape scheme, in progress during the period 1835-45 for the Doyne family. The earlier house, originally built in the late 1600s,...
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1780s – The Abbey, Celbridge, Co. Kildare
Celbridge Abbey was built by Bartholomew Van Homrigh, Lord Mayor of Dublin, in 1697. It was his daughter, Esther Van Homrigh who has been immortalised as ‘Vanessa’ by Jonathan Swift. Swift came...
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1777 – Brabazon Park House, Swinford, Co. Mayo
Swinford was established in the late 1700s by the Brabazon family. Originally from Leicestershire in England and had been living on their estate near Ballinasloe in County Galway until they were...
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1875 – Creagh, Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo
Architect: Samuel Ussher Roberts Creagh House was built by Colonel Knox in 1875, ‘beautiful manor house to the right of the French chateau lately occupied by his predecessor’ when the footprint of the...
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1790c – Drumcairne, Stewartstown, Co. Tyrone
A fine late Georgian house, used by the Earl of Charlemont as his home after Roxborough Castle was burnt in 1922.(Read more...)
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1876 – Killynether House, Comber, Co. Down
Architect: Henry Chappell Constructed as part of the Marquis of Londonderry’s estate and extended and remodelled in the early 1870s. Demolished in the 1960s by the National Trust after being used as a...
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1868 – Violet Hill, Bray, Co. Wicklow
Architect: William Fogerty A medium sized country house, originally finished in brick, and now rendered and painted. The stables and part of the house have been converted into apartments. For a time in...
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1870 – Cahermoyle House, Co. Limerick
Architect: J.J. McCarthy The present house was built in the early 1870s by Edward O’Brien, son of William Smith O’Brien replacing an earlier house which was the home of his grandmother the Dowager Lady...
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1660s – Beaulieu, Co. Louth
The buildings at Beaulieu, evolved over time, from tower house to Jacobean building, finally being redesigned as a grand mansion, in the English style, by the Tichbourne family. As such, it is a rare...
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1862 – Seskinore House, Fintona, Co. Tyrone
Architect: Boyd & Batt The house was heavily remodelled and extended for George Perry McClintock. in 1862 to a design by Derry and Belfast-based architects Boyd & Batt. Demolished in the early...
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1710s – Knox-Hannyngton House, Dungannon, Co Tyrone
The site contained a castle from the early 15th century, which was the headquarters of the O’Neills until the Flight of the Earls in 1607. The land was seized and granted to Sit Arthur Chicester who...
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1860s – Kircassock House, Magheralin, Co. Armagh
During the 1860s, the house was own by Jonathan Richardson MP, who had Alfred Waterhouse design some alterations, after which the house had assumed the form illustrated. During the Second World War the...
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1864 – Tinode House, Blessington, Co. Wicklow
Architect: William Caldbeck Tinode House was burned to the ground in 1922 by the IRA, and has since been partially rebuilt. Part of the entrance front was reconstructed as a single storey as the upper...
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Completed around 1709 in a Dutch-Palladian style, Shannon Grove is a fine medium sized Irish country houses. It haas a central block with small symmetrical wings,
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Architect: Thomas Burgh Oakley Park, formerly Celbridge House, was built in 1724 by Arthur Price when he was vicar of Celbridge,
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