Indicated — Unknown Townland

Lisle House an early 18th century building was described in 1989 as 'A very attractive, two storey, pedimented, early eighteenth-century brick house built for 1st Lord Lisle. Demolished' (Glin et al. 1989, 60). According to Craig (1976, 16); 'Lisle House, Crumlin, now disappeared, was an example' of a 'building with rubbed and gauged brick dressings', where 'the window-heads had undulated arrises characteristic of the Thames valley and Eastern England, and found also at Jigginstown'. Craig (ibid. 166) recorded that he had seen the house 'still substantially existent, about twenty-five years ago [c. 1950]'. A drawing dated 1904 by Mr. T. J. Westropp shows the building as an eight bay, two storey high with central pedimented breakfront. Doorway in centre of pediment with oculus in apex of pediment. Tall rectangular chimney stacks rising to the rear of the house above the roofline suggest the possibility of an earlier house, possibly the medieval or 17th century manor house of Crumlin. McLoughlin (2013, 14) identified that the label on this drawing is incorrect and that the sketch is a depiction of Lisle House located 430m to the NW rather than Crumlin House (DU022-075----). It is possible that Lisle House may have been built on the site of or incorporated the earlier manor house of Crumlin which according to Ball (1906, 142) was in the first half of the 17th century the residence of 'Sir Patrick Fox, sometime Clerk of the Council, who then acquired much property in Crumlin and occupied what was known as the manor house. His widow and family were in possession of the house at the time of the Rebellion, and according to a deposition made by Captain Thomas Harley, who was a contractor for the supply of transport to the army and who had a house and farm in Crumlin, were party to the spoiling of the possessions of persons like himself. The greater portion of the Crumlin lands came, in the latter half of the seventeenth century, into the possession of Major Joseph Deane'. According to Ball (1906, 142); 'The Right Hon. Joseph Deane, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, as Major Deane's grandson became, was the builder of the red brick house, which still adorns Crumlin village, and used it as his country residence. To that position he was called in 1703 at the general election on the accession of Queen Anne, and he continued to occupy it until 1714, when on the accession of George I. he was raised to the bench as Chief Baron. His judicial honours were only enjoyed for a brief space, as in less than a year, in May, 1715, his death took place. About ten years after the Chief Baron's death [c. 1725] his house at Crumlin was advertised for sale. It is described as a handsome new-fashioned residence, and was surrounded by walled gardens in which there were fish ponds'. Lord Lisle was John Lysaght, of Mountnorth, Co. Cork, eldest son of Nicholas Lysaght and Grace, daughter of Colonel Thomas Holmes of Kilmallock, member of parliament for the Borough of Charleville, who in 1725 married Catherine, the third daughter and co-heiress, of Joseph Deane of Crumlin, Lord Chief Baron of His Majesty’s Exchequer in Ireland (Tenison 1895, 525) . The principal seats of the Lysaght family were Mountnorth and Curraglass near Mallow in Cork, Lisle near Cork Harbour, Brickfield near Kilmallock on the Limerick/Cork border, and Crumlin. Tenison, C. M. 1895 Cork M.P.'s, 1599-1800. Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, Vol. 1, 522-25. Georgian Society Records Vol V, Dublin 1913, plate CXXVI - measured drawing of Lisle House McLoughlin, R. 2013 Crumlin Village Architectural Conservation Area Report by Lotts Architecture and Urbanism. Dublin City Council. See attached 1904 drawing of Crumlin House, taken from Ball 1906, 142 and Rocque's 1760 map showing the location of Lisle House. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 January 2023