1731 – Summerhill, Co. Meath
Summerhill House was a 100 roomed country house which was the ancestral seat of the Langford Rowley family.
Summerhill House was a 100 roomed country house which was the ancestral seat of the Langford Rowley family.
In 1788 Francis Bernard, the 1st Earl of Bandon demolished much of the old O’Mahony castle that previously stood on this site,
Constructed 1807-08 for Robert Delacour to designs by Sir Richard Morrison. Inscribed on the entablature over the entrance ‘est ubi depellata somnos minus invida cura’
Constructed around 1810 for the Cavendish Butler family, and extended to rear in 1846. Burned out in the early 1920s and now an ivy-clad ruin.
Long rambling castle sited across a hillside. Burnt during 1921, a wing was recently restored.
Described in 1837 by Lewis, “About a mile and a half from Athlone on the Leinster side of the Shannon is Moydrum Castle the handsome residence of Viscount Castlemaine a solid castellated mansion with square turrets at each angle beautifully situated on the edge of a small lake and surrounded by an extensive and richly wooded demesne.”
Constructed on the site of an earlier house, Templemore Abbey was a vast neo-Gothic mansion designed by one of the masters of the genre in Ireland,
In 1818 Solomon Richards, a Dublin Surgeon, bought Ardamine estate. In 1812, Richards had won £10,000 in a lottery. In that year,
Large classical house built on an elevated site overlooking the River Blackwater, constructed for the 1st Earl of Listowel.
Ballybay House, residence of Henry Edward John Leslie C.M.G., M.V.O; (1880-1966), a member of the British diplomatic mission to Rome,