Togher House is situated amidst beautifully mature trees within private grounds in the centre of Monasterevin town, an attractive historic town on the scenic River Barrow and the Grand Canal. The town dates back to the 6th century when St. Eimhin’s (Evin) monastery was founded there and is perhaps best known for having been the home of Count John McCormack, the famous tenor and Gerard Manley Hopkins, the eminent poet who each resided in Moore Abbey and Monasterevin House respectively.

Also historically important in the town are the 1826 drawbridge, the Aqueduct, Bell Harbour on the waterways near the town and the former Cassidy Distillery building. The prosperous Cassidy family distilling a quarter of a million gallons of whiskey a year in the town at their height when James Cassidy built Togher House on his marriage in 1854, leaving his sisters to reside in Monasterevin House, the original family home.
Monasterevin is a pleasant town to live in and offers facilities typical of a thriving provincial town with a supermarket, 3 primary schools and a secondary school. While Clongowes Wood and Newbridge College private schools are a short distance away. The Kildare Village shopping centre is 10 km / 6.2 km away and the bustling shopping towns of Naas and Newbridge are within easy distance, also offering good restaurants in addition to those offered in Kildare town and the nearby Heritage Golf & Spa Resort. This resort is host to 3 restaurants, a Championship 18 hole golf course, leisure centre and hotel.
For racing enthusiasts The Curragh Racecourse is only 16 km / 9.9 miles away, while Punchestown, Naas, Gowran, Fairyhouse and Leopardstown are all easily accessible. There are good equestrian facilities locally for every standard of competence with hunting available with The Kildare and Laois packs. With both the River Barrow and Grand Canal running though the town good angling and boating is afforded and great walking along a ‘Canal Way’ which stretches all the way from Rathangan to Bagenalstown.

Formerly on the N7 Dublin / Limerick road the town benefits from being relieved from traffic congestion with the opening of the M7 road, with an access interchange just 3.3 km / 6.7 miles away making Monasterevin extremely accessible. Togher House is also extremely accessible by train with frequent services from nearby Portarlington and Kildare, offering the Arrow frequent service.
Togher House is a most attractive period mansion house in the Italian neo-classical style with stucco architraves and rusticated quoins on the exterior. The interior features generously proportioned rooms with high ceilings and fine tall windows giving good natural light, with the magnificent ballroom extending the entire depth of the south-side of the house and featuring some marvellous plaster work to the ceiling, two matching marble chimney pieces, two large matching bay windows and double French doors opening to the south garden. Indeed, the principal accommodation features strong ceiling plasterwork and fine marble chimneypieces throughout. Perhaps prompting Count John McCormack to describe Togher House as “The gem of them all”.
Enjoying such a primary position in the town with the benefit of being set within 7.6 acres Togher House makes a superb private home with magnificent reception rooms for entertaining and enough land to accommodation horses or ponies. Although given that the property is located in an area zoned for residential development in the Kildare Development Plan development options could be considered, obviously subject to any necessary permission(s).

On approx 3.07 hectares / 7.6 acres
A most attractive 19th century villa beautifully set within its own private grounds, complete with numerous mature shrubs and trees, a short stroll from the centre of a thriving provincial town and only minutes from the M7 Dublin / Limerick interchange.

• Gardens
• The grounds are quite delightful with formal gardens complete with box hedging, a water feature and manicured lawns framing the gravelled forecourt to the front while the rest of the gardens are less formal and benefit from being interspersed with lots of mature trees, some being noted specimens and including Yews, Walnut, Oaks and Chestnuts. Useful outbuildings include a workshop and a large garden store, which could be easily converted into stables if necessary. Indeed, some of the grounds could easily be railed off to provide grazing for a horse or pony.
• Services
• Mains electric, mains water, oil and gas fired central heating systems, burglar alarm, telephone (2 lines), mains drainage

Fixtures & Fittings

Only those mentioned in these particulars are included in the sale. All others including garden ornaments, over mantels, light fittings and furniture are expressly excluded but may be available by separate negotiation.