Glenasmole Roads

Dollymount HouseGLENASMOLE ROADSThe next estate to Orlagh was Mount Pelier House or Dollymountas it was originally named. The only surviving part of the house isthe tower known as Carthy’s or McCarthy’s Castle. This housewas built by Lord Ely towards the end of the eighteenth centuryand consisted of a long two storied frontage facing north-east, ateach corner of which was an arched entrance. The roomscontained marble chimney pieces and stuccoed ceilings and overthe hall door were the arms of the Ely family in cut stone.Stretching out from each of the gateways was a long low range ofbuildings terminating at each end in a three storied tower withbattlements and pointed windows. Behind the house wereextensive outbuildings, barns, stables and haggard, and aplantation of trees covered the slope of the hill behind. After thehouse had been abandoned as a residence by the Ely family it waslet to a tenant who cut down the trees and treated the house withsuch neglect that it soon became uninhabitable.Dollymount House or Mount Pelier House, circa 1950.The place had been a ruin for over a century when, in 1950, whatremained of the house was demolished and the materialsremoved. Only the tower at the western end is now standing alongwith some out offices and in the haggard are sixteen large circularplatforms, said to be for the purpose of ricking hay or straw, anda number of long arched structures about 4 feet high. 3543