Lixnaw House Old Court

Notes:

A late 17th century house now in ruins built for Thomas Fitzmaurice (1668-1742), later 1st Earl of Kerry. This was at the centre of a formally laid-out demesne with an avenue of elms leading to the house from the south and a canal from the north. The house was probably two storeys high with a dormer level and was dismissed by Bishop Pococke in 1758 as "very indifferent" (see Knightly 2010, p. 41). By the 1820s the house was in ruins and now only a few of the outer walls remain. These were constructed of local limestone described in 1709 by Samuel Molyneux as a "black sort of marble" who also noted a number of chimneypieces of Muckross Red Marble (Knightly 2010, p. 39, 42).