Ballinakill


A two storey house with five bay front and a lower two storey wing. There is a pedimented Doric porch behind which is an earlier stone doorcase with egg and dart moulding and a foliated keystone. It is a late 17th or early 18th century house in an old tower house.


About 1770 a drawing room was created on the first floor and its windows were enlarged giving the front a lob - sided appearance. There is a slightly curving 18th century staircase. The stair well is lit by small round headed windows. 


There is a spacious first floor landing with shouldered doorcases. On one side of the landing is a room leading to the old tower. It has a wide hooded late 16th or early 17th century chimney place.


The drawing room created in the 1770's has a fine plaster ceiling with foliage and and husk ornament in compartments and cornice of flowers. The room has fine 18th century joinery. The earlier part of the house has thick walls and oak beams supported by stone corbels.