Bilboa Court, country house in County Limerick

What is recorded here

Bilboa Court in Bilboa was said to have been built entirely with bricks from Holland. With the house now reduced to ruins, that surviving red-brick wall has the air of an expensive purchase still being defended: 'Local bricks wouldn't have lasted half as long, Mary.'

Ruinous remains of former country house, built c. 1780. Remains of red brick rear wall of main structure. Range of outbuildings to north having mixed pitched corrugated-iron and slate roofs with red brick painted walls. Remains of rubble limestone garden walls located to east of main structure. Single-arch limestone bridge located south of the main structure, having rubble spandrel walls and dressed voussoirs to arch.

Although now in a state of ruin, the remains of Bilboa Court with outbuildings are a testament to its former status. The existence of the bridge and stumps of the garden walls signify the existence of an extensive formal garden system laid out to the east and south of the main house. It has been stated that the house was built wholly of brick from Holland.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21901524

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