Abbeville, Tipperary

Abbeville is a small country house in a relict parkland setting in the parish of Lorrha in County Tipperary in Ireland. It is a three-bay, three-storey house with one-storey flanking wing walls to either side, built c. 1840, and with an earlier, possibly 17th century, three-bay, three-storey rear wing. The fenestration of the main front is composed of elaborate tripartite windows with carved pilasters, except for the central bay, where there are double round-headed windows over the doorcase. The front door is flanked by engaged clustered columns and has an elaborate cobweb fanlight above. The datestone "1773" does not seem to relate to any part of the present building, but may indicate a previous phase of building activity. There are substantial ranges of limestone outbuildings to the south-east including one range with segmental and depressed-arch carriage arches. Abbeville was the seat of the Hemsworth family from the early 18th century until c1890, when Thomas Gerard Hemsworth sold up and emigrated to Canada. Some land was sold to the Dawson family through the Encumbered Estates Court c1850, but the Hemsworths still had convert|387|acre|km2|1 in c.1870. The park retains the remains of a canal to the north.

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* http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=TN&regno=22400415
* http://www.proni.gov.uk/records/private/dartrey.htm