museums strokestown

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...

Strokestown House
Strokestown House is one of the finest Palladian Houses and was lived in by the Pakenham - Mahon family from 1660-1979. the most hated and notorious of them was Major Denis Mahon who succeeded to Strokestown in 1845. His reputation as a ruthless landlord was confirmed by multiple evictions. Finally in an attempt to clear the lands he paid for several ships, to transport them to America.

The ships he chartered, sank off the coast of Ireland. There was a publ...