Ruined and Disused Houses of the Republic of Ireland
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Laois
| Laois | Bellegrove House | N5865 0601 | Aka Rathdaire, it's a detached two-storey over basement Italianate country house of c.1835. It was destroyed by fire in 1887.
| Laois | Brittas House | N3077 1054 | The remains of a detached country house, built in 1869, and comprising a three-storey over basement tower, with the remainder of the house dismantled to ground level. 
| Laois | Coolrain House | S2878 9174 | A mid-C18 ruin of five bays over a half-basement, having an open pedimented centre, and flanked by elliptical carriage arches.
| Laois | Knocknatrina House | S4173 7679 | A detached two-storey Tudor Revival house of c.1860, with canted bay windows, full-height gabled bowed bays and a two-storey wing. 
| Laois | Tinnakill House | S4196 9125 | A detached three-bay two-storey Georgian house with dormer attic, of c.1770, with pedimented central breakfront and two-storey return to rear. Leitrim
| Leitrim | Kinlough House | G8172 5532 | A detached T-plan five-bay two-storey over basement country house, built in c.1800 by Robert Johnston. Limerick
| Limerick | Ballyclogh House | R3109 4850 | A detached five-bay three-storey country house of c.1790.
| Limerick | Ballynaguard House | R6166 4808 | A detached five-bay two-storey over basement country house, built in 1774.
| Limerick | Dromard House | R3968 3926 | A detached five-bay, three storey country house of c.1770
| Limerick | Dromore Castle | R4342 5421 | A freestanding square-plan Gothic Revival style country house, built in 1866-7 for the Lord Glentworth, third Earl of Limerick.
| Limerick | Elm Hill House | R3060 3936 | A detached L-plan six-bay two-storey over half-basement house, built in c.1790.
| Limerick | Glenduff Castle | R3025 2170 | A large multiple bay two storey country house that was built in c.1840, incorporating at its northern end a tower house of c.1600
| Limerick | Grange House | R6278 4371 | A detached six-bay three-storey country house of c. 1790.
| Limerick | Knockaderry House | R3285 3555 | A detached three-bay two-storey over basement country house of c.1780.
| Limerick | Massy Lodge | R8114 2121 | A detached five-bay, two storey country house of c.1800
| Limerick | Mountshannon House | R6501 5906 | A detached seven-bay two-storey over basement country house, built c.1790, having a pedimented Ionic portico to the front (north) elevation, and a multiple-bay two-storey extension to the east. Remodelled c.1813. Longford
-Louth
| Louth | Glyde Court | N9704 9658 | A detached seventeen-bay two-storey house with attic, built in c.1780, remodelled and extended in Jacobean style in 1868.
| Louth | Stephenstown House | J0076 0221 | A detached five-bay two-storey over basement house, built in c.1790, having a single-storey addition to the south of c.1820, and a porch to the entrance front of c.1840. Mayo
| Mayo | Barleyhill House | M3080 9559 | A detached five-bay, two storey farmhouse, built on a T-shape plan in 1748.
| Mayo | Bartragh House | G2512 2873 | A detached three- or five-bay single-storey, part double-pile country house with half-dormer attic on an L-shaped plan, and extant in 1838. 
| Mayo | Castle Gore House | G1812 1871 | A detached three-bay three-storey over basement country house, built in 1789-92, on a symmetrical plan, with a five-bay full-height rear (west) elevation. Damaged, 1798. Occupied, 1911. Burnt, 1922. In ruins (complete) 1942.
| Mayo | Castle Lachan House | G1760 3668 | The remains of a two storey country house extant in 1777, occupied in 1901, vacant in 1911, and in ruins by 1943.
| Mayo | Claremount House | M3399 7623 | A detached five-bay two-storey over part raised basement country house with dormer attic, extant in 1770.
| Mayo | Clogher House | M1802 7841 | A detached six-bay three-storey over part raised basement country house, built in 1770.
| Mayo | Doonmacreena | M 4311 6755 Ruined five-bay two-storey C17 house.
| Mayo | Moore Hall | M1908 7442 | A detached five-bay three-storey over part raised basement country house, built in 1792-5, and dated 1795. The design of Moore Hall is attributed to John Roberts (1712-96) of Waterford. 
| Mayo | Neale House | M1900 5898 | The remains of a country house of 1737, that was extant in 1777, that was "improved" in 1908.
| Mayo | Netley House | G1637 2270 | A detached three-bay two storey country house, that was built in 1816 on an L-shape plan for Captain Henry William Knox (d. 1816), one-time High Sheriff of County Mayo.
| Mayo | Raheens House | M1043 8880 | A detached three-bay two-storey over basement country house, built in 1847-8 on an L-shaped plan.
| Mayo | Summerhill House | G1898 3331 | A detached five-bay two-storey over part raised basement country house with dormer attic, extant in 1777.
| Mayo | Towerhill House | M2078 7597 | A detached six-bay, two storey country house, built 1790 on a rectangular plan.Meath
| Meath | Arch Hall | N8388 7540 | Little is known about this house, who the architect was, or when it was built. It has been proposed that Sir Edward Lovett Pearce was the architect (or his assistant and successor Richard Castle), and that the house was built in the 1730s.
| Meath | Crossdrum House | N5374 7913 | A detached five-bay two-storey over basement country house, built in 1817 on a rectangular plan. 
| Meath | Loughcrew House | N5699 7606 | The remains of a country house, built c.1780, having a giant Ionic limestone portico supporting the remains of a pediment.
| Meath | Pilltown House | O1307 7319 | A Neoclassical five bay, two storey over basement house, built in 1838 for Thomas Brodigan, pioneer of the Dublin to Drogheda Railway.
| Meath | Williamstown House | N7428 7857 | A detached nine-bay three-storey over basement country house, built c.1770. It has a fine carved limestone doorcase, and carved limestone dressings to the window openings with timber sash windows. Monaghan
-Offaly
| Offaly | Derrymore House | N2283 2028 | An early C18 ruin of a house attributed to the architect Edward Lovett Pearce. Its first recorded occupant was a Mr Conroy in 1784.
| Offaly | Drayton Villa | N2629 3247 | A detached three-bay two-storey over basement house, built 1849-50, with a porch to the front, and a two-storey extension of 1865-6 to the west.
| Offaly | Durrow Abbey House | N3193 3078 | A detached L-plan, multiple-bay, two-storey over basement Jacobean Revival style house, built between 1837-43. 
| Offaly | Toberdaly House | N5219 3201 | The ruins of a Georgian Mansion burnt in 1923.
| Offaly | Rathrobin House | N2620 1629 | A detached five-bay two-storey country house with dormer attic, dated 1898 on an L-shaped plan
| Offaly | Tumbeagh House | N1504 2952 | A ruined two-storey gable ended late 17th or early 18th century houseRoscommon
| Roscommon | Alderford House | G8708 1348 | A detached seven-bay two storey house whose origins (according to some), may well lie before the date when it was built, or rebuilt c.1810.
| Roscommon | Corkip House | M 9298 4253 | The overgrown ruins of an C18 house associated with the Lyster family.
| Roscommon | French Park | M7276 9196 | A detached circular-plan two-storey former smokehouse, with remains of an entrance porch to the north, and built c.1730. One of the few remains of the Frenchpark estate whose grand house was demolished in the C20.
| Roscommon | Scregg House | M9310 5582 | A detached five-bay three-storey over part raised basement country house, dated 1769, on a rectangular plan.
| Roscommon | Mount Talbot House | M8101 5355 | A detached former Tudor Revival country house, built c.1750.Sligo
| Sligo | Castle Neynoe | G7457 2549 | A detached three-bay, two storey, stone built former mansion, having a central projecting circular tower. Built in c.1790 in a Gothic style to a design by Robert Robinson.
| Sligo | Hollybrook House | G7753 1227 | A detached five-bay (two-bay deep) three-storey over basement country house, built in 1725 or 1756, on a rectangular plan. 
| Sligo | Longford House | G5643 2992 | A detached five-bay three-storey stone built former mansion of c.1782. Tipperary
| Tipperary | Clashaphooca House | R9985 1368 | A detached three-bay two-storey over basement house of c.1860.
| Tipperary | Cloghonan House or Castle Otway | R9451 6983 | A detached seven-bay two-storey country house over a half-basement, with a three-bay pedimented breakfront. Built in c.1750, and incorporating the ruins of a four and five-storey medieval tower house that was rebuilt in the C19.
| Tipperary | Killoran House | S2029 6669 | A detached three-bay two-storey country house, built c.1850.
| Tipperary | Lacken House | S0899 1668 | A detached five-bay two storey house that was built in c.1770
| Tipperary | Littlefield House | S2714 5482 | A detached three-bay two-storey country house, built in c.1850.
| Tipperary | Oaklands House | S1679 2275 | A detached four-bay three-storey country house, built c.1770. 
| Tipperary | Portland House | M8866 0636 | A detached six-bay two-storey over basement country house of c.1820.
| Tipperary | Rochestown House | S0679 1984 | A detached irregular-plan multi-period country house of the late Georgian period, incorporating the ruins of a late C12 or early C13 castle, having C18 and C19 additions.
| Tipperary | Solsborough House | R8451 7921 | A detached three-storey over basement country house, built in c.1830, whose top storey was an addition of c.1860.Waterford
| Waterford | Old Cappagh House | X1825 9677 | A detached seven-bay single-storey split-level country house on a quadrangular plan. Extant in 1768. 
| Waterford | Glenabbey House aka Carey's Castle | S1925 1881 | Known as Carey's Castle after the family who built it in the early part of the C19. Comprising of a mix of an early Irish round tower, and a medieval Norman-style hall, with both Romanesque and Gothic-style arches. 
| Waterford | Knockaderry House | S4832 0711 | A detached three-bay two storey house, built in c.1760 on a L-shape plan. 
| Waterford | Mayfield House | S4628 1530 | A detached seven-bay three-storey over basement Italianate house of c.1840 on an almost-symmetrical plan, and incorporating the fabric of an earlier house of c.1740.Westmeath
| Westmeath | Auburn House | N1060 5000 | A detached five-bay two-storey over raised basement house, built or rebuilt in c.1805.
| Westmeath | Ballynagall House | N4418 5882 | A detached six-bay two-storey Regency style house, built in c.1808. Its projecting cut stone single-storey Ionic porch to the entrance front was subsequently removed c.1965.
| Westmeath | Daramona House | N3355 7094 | A detached three-bay two-storey country house of c.1855, having a projecting tetrastyle cut stone Doric entrance porch to the centre of the front facade.
| Westmeath | Grangemore House | N6108 5431 | A detached five-bay three-storey over basement former country house, built in c.1815, and having a central two-bay breakfront to the main façade.
| Westmeath | Moydrum Castle | N0915 4196 | A detached seven-bay two-storey over basement castellated country house, rebuilt in c.1812, and incorporating the fabric of an earlier house of c.1750. 
| Westmeath | Newcastle House | N4232 3953 | A detached five-bay two-storey country house, that was built or rebuilt in c.1851. It incorporates the remains of an earlier house of c.1740, and a tower house of c.1640 to the rear.
| Westmeath | Tudenham Park House | N4180 4709 | A detached seven-bay three-storey over basement country house, built in c.1743. It was later in use as a military hospital (1914-1919).
| Westmeath | Waterstown House | N0941 4606 | A detached seven-bay three-storey over basement Palladian style country house, on a rectangular plan, constructed in c.1745. Wexford
| Wexford | Ardoginna House or Ardo Castle | X1764 7665 | A detached three or five-bay two-storey country house on an L-shaped plan, extant in 1824, and having single-bay three-stage circular corner turrets.
| Wexford | Castleboro House | S8661 3725 | A detached seven-bay (six-bay deep) three-storey over basement country house, built in 1840-58, on a Palladian plan. 
| Wexford | Coolbawn House | S8321 3777 | A detached five-bay two-storey over basement country house with dormer attic, built in 1823-39, on a T-shaped plan.
| Wexford | Mackmine Castle | S9721 3224 | A detached eleven-bay two-storey country house on an L-shaped plan, extant in 1863, and centred on a medieval single-bay four storey square tower.
| Wexford | Wilton Castle | S9431 3505 | A detached three-bay three-storey over basement country house, built in 1838-44 on an asymmetrical plan. Wicklow
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