Lowville House,

Co. Galway.

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Lowville House, Lowtown, Galway.

In 1783 Lowville was the seat of Nathanial Lowe. Nathanial was a member of a Cromwellian family who had settled in county Westmeath, he was the owner of the estate at Cloonbiggin, and then later Lowville. By 1814 the owner of Lowville House is recorded as the Hon. Mrs. Low. and by 1837 the seat of Walter McDonagh who also owned extensive commercial interests around Ballinasloe. McDonagh had been the agent to Rev. Le Poer Trench and it was from him that the Lowville estate was purchased.

In the 1870s James W. McDonagh of Lowville was the owner of over 1500 acres in Co. Galway. Sometime after this the property was mortgaged to Thomas Seymour Blake who was the registered lessor from 1884-1893. By 1906 it was in the possession of Bernard Connaughton and was valued at £33. The Lowville estate was finally divided by the Land Commission in the 1920s and 1930s.

Lowville became home to the Byrne family but was sold in the early 1970s and fell into ruin.