Ballynegall House

[1] Its gutting and fall into ruins was said to be one of great architectural losses in Ireland.

[citation needed] James Gibbons died without issue and the house passed to James William Middleton Berry who in 1851 married Caroline Augusta Smith, daughter of Thomas Cusack-Smith but James then died suddenly in December 1855 while on a hunt.

The house then passed to his in laws and it remained in the Smyth family until the early 1960s.

The last owner Michael Hawkesworth Smyth sold the house with several hundred acres of good farming land for about £12,000.

Many of the items from the house are still in existence today in other buildings: the fine portico found a new home at the entrance to the K Club, Straffan, County Kildare, and the Richard Turner conservatory at the La Serre restaurant on the Lyons Demesne, Celbridge, County Kildare.