loughly manor

South of the town is Loughry Manor (now an agricultural college), a plantation mansion which has associations with Dean Jonathan Swift. He stayed here as a guest of the Lindsay family, while writing Gulliver's Travels (published 1726). Portraits of 'Stella' (Esther Johnston died 1728) and 'Vanessa' (Esther Vanhomrigh died 1723) still hang in the Old Library. The Dean loved them both, and made them both miserable.