homes historical ireland

This romantic Tudor Gothic house designed by Daniel Robertson looks like the perfect setting for an early 19th century novel. And indeed there is a literary connection, apart from its geographical location in Maria Edgeworth and Oliver Goldsmith's Country. An earlier house belonging to the banking Newcomen family was rebuilt by Daniel Robertson for Thomas Lefroy, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland in 1837. Handsome young Thomas Lefroy had become an inamorato of Jane Austen when he was studying in...

This National Trust property is open again albeit to a very limited extent after a closure of more than twenty years. The parkland of the eighteenth century thatched cottage once a manor house was laid out by John Sutherland, 1745 to 1826, a disciple of Capability Brown.

There are fine views of the Mournes and Newry. The walled garden is under cultivation and there are some imposing mature trees, including exotics. 18th-century mansion was home to Isaac Corry, General in Chief of the Iri...

A the north east corner, the Sovereign's House contains the museum of the Royal Irish Fusiliers. It was built in 1810 of stone left over from the courthouse. On the west side, and extravagant small church with a campanile is a gospel hall of 1884....

Magnificent country house, seat of the Bagenal family for three centuries. The house is of  Tudor Gothic style.

Now open for visitiors....

A focal point of the northern midlands where the provinces of Leinster, Ulster and Connaught all converge, Longford, where history and literature, tragedy and triumph are all woven together, takes its name from the ancient stronghold of the O'Farrell family (Long Fort - Fort of the O'Farrells). Bordered to the West by the majestic River Shannon, Longford is a county of rolling plains and picturesque stretches of water. The highest point of the county, Cairn Hill, is only 279 m high, but from...

A delightful "cottage orne" built in the early 1800's on the estate of the Earls of Glengall to a design by the famous Regency architect John Nash. Situated on an elevated site with access by stone steps....

The ruins of Co Carlow's finest Gothic mansion destroyed by fire in 1933. The home of the Duckett family from the middle of the 17th century until 1915. An imposing gate lodge still remains.

The gardens have gone under major restorations are open to the public. Tea room, crafts and car parking are also available....

A few minutes walk from the town centre lies the Knockreer section of the National Park. Access is via Deenagh Lodge gate which is opposite the Cathedral, and this leads to a pleasant pastoral landscape with fine views of the Lakes and mountains especially from the gardens of Knockreer House. The house, which was the home of the Grosvenor family, is now the field study centre for the National Park....

At the end of Ireland's widest main street - laid out by the 2nd Lord Hartland as the widest street in Europe - a Georgian Gothic arch leads to Strokestown Park House, seat of the Pakenham Mahon family from 1600 to 1979.
The house was designed for Thomas Mahon in the 1730s by the German architect Richard Castle and incorporates parts of an earlier tower house. The central block is the residential part of the house. The north wing houses Ireland's last galleried kitchen (a gallery in the...

This is the house in which Colonel Thomas J. Kelly, who escaped being hanged for his part in the freeing of the Manchester Martyrs, lived, it is situated in the Square. Colonel Kelly luckily escaped to New York while the other members; Allen, Larkin and O'Brien, the Manchester Martyrs, were hanged.

It is now a public house but still bears the name Kelly's. A plaque was erected on the front of the premises in memory of Colonel Kelly....