homes historical ireland

At Nos 80-81 St Stephen's Green is Iveagh House, now the Department of Foreign Affairs, which was presented to the state by the Earl of Iveagh, head of the Guinness family....

Near Loughrea 4 miles west north west just off the Craughwell road, is the entrance to St Clerans, a Georgian mansion, in which the film producer, John Huston lived.
,br> Here, in 1820, was born Robert O' Hara Burke, the explorer who was the first to cross Australia from south to north. He perished miserably on the return journey. His statue stands in Sidney, Australia....

This is a tall and slender 5 storey tower standing in one corner of a bawn and built originally by the MacMahons, Lords of Corcabascin, around the end of the 15th century. The tower is complete with musket holes, 'murder holes' to drop things on intruders' heads when they came in the door and it also has a vault on the 4th floor.

Teige Caech, 'The Short-sighted', Macmahon was unsuccessfully besieged in the tower by Sir Conyers Clifford in 1598, but a few months later the Earl of Thomon...

This attraction depicts the buildings and life in Moneymore a the time of 17th century Plantation and in in the 19th century. Between the two model villages, a 17th century plantation garden will be created to show visitors an example of landscaping and horticulture from that era. Call in advance for further information....

The Market House forms the large centerpiece of the town square in from of Hillsborough Castle. It was first built around 1760 as a two-storey structure with an archway running through the centre from east to west. In 1810 the present north and south side wings were added, one to provide a courtroom and the other a market hall, and at the same time a new granite plinth, various decorations as well as a new clock and bell, were provided....

Built by the prosperous merchant John Rothe in 1594, the building was soon enlarged to accommodate his family of 12 children. Second and third houses were built around cobbled courtyards and a well dating to 1604. The facade house shops, one of them was John Rothe's own emporium. The second generation and their families shared facilities like the well and the brewhouse. The house would have been very comfortably furnished by the standards of the day.

The Kilkenny Archaeological So...

Among treasures in the chapterhouse are the seventeenth century locks and keys of the city gates, Lord Macaulay's manuscript account of the siege, interesting paintings, and a pair of duelling pistols belonging to Frederick Hervey, fourth Earl of Bristol and Bishop of Derry (1730-1803). This Byronic nobleman, a flamboyant character whose name is preserved in all the Bristol Hotels in Europe, acquired the rich bishopric of Derry in 1768 and immediately began building churches and improving old o...

Bowen's Court was the home to the Irish novilist Elizabeth Bowen who came from a family of a large generation. She worte such novels as "The Litttle Girls", "The House in Paris" and many  many more. She was born in 1899 and passed away in 1973....

No 8 Ely Place is one of the city's finest Georgian mansions, with a magnificent staircase and Adam decoration. The site of Oliver Gogarty's house at No 25 is now occupied by the Royal Hibernian Academy's, now Gallagher Gallery. The RHA has exhibited or given membership to almost every Irish artist of distinction since it was founded a century and a half ago....

This was originally the home of the Blakes, one of the tribes of Galway. Henry Blake purchased the Renvyle estate in 1680 from the Earl of Westmeath, who had been granted it under the Cromwellian settlements. Caroline Blake turned the house into a hotel in 1883. It was rebuilt following fire destruction in 1930....