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Balloon House

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 16 older comments, and then…
  • Swordscookie said:
    Did a google search on this and found the following in a book about the Bomford family estates and no name was given. "A farcical error took place about the middle of the 1800s concerning two little houses on the Drumlargan road belonging to Lord Langford. Lord Langford of Summerhill designed a straight avenue to run one mile from Lynch’s Knock beside his house onto the road at Drumlargan. An architect was asked to design two gate-lodges to be placed at the end of the avenue on either side of the main road; the same architect also had to design two block-houses for the Indian Army to be sited to guard the Khyber Pass leading into Afghanistan. Needless to say the plans got mixed up and two low square block- houses with roofs like balloon-shaped pyramids were built on the road at Drumlargan. It would be interesting to know what the Indian Army thought about their blockhouses, but the Irish were intrigued with their “Balloon Houses” as they were soon named, and they remained an outstanding piece of local architecture until they were unjustifiably pulled down quite recently."
  • blackpoolbeach said:
    maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,685447,746494,7,9 Nothing there now on Google maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Drumlargan,+Meath,+Ireland&h...
  • Tammy said:
    what a shame they are gone!
  • John Spooner said:
    Swordscookie I once heard a remarkably similar story about Dungannon police station - that the plans got mixed up and that explains why Dungannon police are housed in what looks like an grand Indian palace, and an Indian prince lived in what appeared to be an Irish Police Barracks. Here we are - the stories are even more similar than I thought: www.geograph.ie/photo/531623
  • Swordscookie said:
    John Spooner Those legends abound! I've heard the same story about McKee Barracks off the North Circular Road in Dublin, Portlaoise Hospital etc. The fact that an architect might have been influenced by colonial experience never seems to have been considered. See this www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgbuPOR04hc I also found this in Flickr www.flickr.com/photos/36860142@N03/4356774351/

The difference between an "N" and an "L"?

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

Lord of the rocks and the crevices

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • Sharon Corbet said:
    Streetview of gatelodge. NIAH page for the gatelodge, which is now part of the Glengarriff Nature Reserve.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    ROCHE'S ROYAL HOTEL on rear of sidecar might help with dating ... catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000339154
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Have a sticky-beak at Lord Bantry's Lodge, on a river island nearby - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000325209 www.glengarriff-lodge.com/about-us/history-of-the-lodge/
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Thanks Sharon Corbet and beachcomber australia. I've updated the map and tags. Unless the "Roche's Royal Hotel" had specific and confirmed opening/closing dates, I don't suppose we'll be able to definitively refine the date range by much. Although the fashions would seem to suggest that we haven't strayed much into the 20th century here....
  • guliolopez said:
    I had a look at the Guy's and Slater's directories yesterday, and they weren't any help with dates. The Roche family operated a hotel in Glengariff from before the start of the range (at least early 1860s) until after the end of the range (into 1920s). So the sign on the back of the tourist car doesn't help.