Louth country houses

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,

1777 – Drumcar House, Co. Louth

Built in 1777, it stayed with the McClintock family until the 1940s. In 1948, it became St. Mary’s Hospital, a hospital for the mentally ill,

1780s – Glydecourt, Tallinstown, Co. Louth

A very long seventeen-bay two-storey house with attic, built c. 1780, later remodelled and extended. Originally built as a Georgian house,

1785 – Stephenstown House, Co. Louth

Built in 1785 by Matthew Fortescue for his new bride Marian McClintock. A square Georgian house of 2 storeys over a basement 5 bays long and 5 bays deep.

1834 – Bellingham Castle, Castlebellingham, Co. Louth

Architect: Thomas Smith

Designed by Thomas Smith, an English architect who worked in Ireland for Sir Patrick Bellew, whose estates were in Co.

1839 – Barmeath Castle, Dunleer, Co. Louth

Architect: John B. Keane / Thomas Smith

Originally the site of a medieval Castle of the Pale, it was enlarged in the mid 18th century into a Georgian residence.

1840 – Ravensdale Park, Dundalk, Co. Louth

Architect: Thomas Duff

Constructed in an austere Italianate style, by Thomas Duff of Newry, For 1st Baron Clermont. Later changes by Lanyon &

1840s – Ballymascanlon House, Dundalk, Co. Louth

Now part of a larger hotel complex – the house was remodelled from a late 18th century house into a Tudor Gothic mansion circa 1840.

1858 – Knockabbey Castle, Louth, Co. Louth

Architect: William Caldbeck

When it was first built in 1399, it was called Thomastown Castle and consisted only of a towerhouse.

1870 – An Grianán, Newtown House, Termonfeckin, Co. Louth

Originally built in the 1780s by the McClintock family and called Newtown House. In 1852 it was sold to a Drogheda merchant and shipbuilder called Ralph Smyth who extended it around 1870.