Ballyoughter House
The former parochial residence (for the adjacent Church of the Sacred Heart), Ballyoughter House was built in the 19th century in the Georgian style.
You can view the resident parish priests who lived in the parochial house up to the retirement of Rev. Nicholas Canon Cardiff in 1970 at Church/Religious Order.
The parochial house stands on a 0.75 acre site and has two bedrooms upstairs, both with fireplaces, and two receptions on the ground floor. Original features include shuttered sash windows, a curved, open-string stairs and the fireplaces. Ballyoughter House is a listed building and has a preservation order placed on it due to its cultural and historic value.
The house was bought at auction in the early 1970s by the Popplewell family for a sum in the region of £6,000 and was totally refurbished as a modern family home. The house was left vacant for a number of years in the 2010s and ownership changed hands a couple of times before it was purchased in 2020 by an Irish emigrant family returning from Australia. The house has been carefully and tastefully restored by the owners, restoring it to its former glory.
Check out further details of this historic building (Reg No: 15701128) on the ‘National Inventory of Architectural Heritage’ website.
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