Ballyoughter (original) (raw)

Ballyoughter is an 18th-century house and park situated about 1.5 km south of Elphin, County Roscommon, Ireland. The earliest historical reference to Ballyoughter is in the Annals of Connaught which records that in 1542 Ulick Burke of Clanrickarde ‘took’ the residence of O Flannigan at Ballyoughter while on a military expedition in ‘Lower Connaught’. The Goldsmiths continued in possession of Ballyoughter until 1883 when another John Goldsmith sold the property. Also in the parish of Elphin is Smith Hill where Oliver Goldsmith's mother Anne Jones was born.