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The 1,000-acre (4.0 km 2) estate comprises park land, meandering streams and several forests. The house is still home to the Leslie family; the late Sir Jack Leslie (6 December 1916 – 16 April 2016) returned to live at Castle Leslie at the age of 78 and the principal owner is Samantha (Sammy) Leslie.
Dundarave was designed by Sir Charles Lanyon, the eminent architect, and was built in 1846, [1] a contemporary of Castle Leslie. It occupies high ground over the village of Bushmills and the coastline of North Antim, near the port of Portballintrae. The estate is made up of extensive woods; these amount to approximately 100 acres (40 ha). [2]
After the war, Anita took up farming and was an avid fox hunter, as was her husband Bill. In 1946, the Kings bought Oranmore Castle, a 15th-century Norman keep built on Galway Bay in county Galway, Ireland for £200-. [6] Other sources report that Anita Leslie-King was given the castle by her mother, who had bought it in 1946. [7]
Tynan Abbey was demolished in 1998 due to the unstable structure of the ruin. All that remains is the arch of the front door surround. In September 2007, The Three Estates Walking Festival was held within the Tynan estate, along with the lands at Caledon and Castle Leslie. [10]
Smyth sold The Oriel in 2006 to work as a chef consultant for The Hilden Brewery who opened Molly's Yard Restaurant on Botanic Avenue Belfast. He went on to work for both Belfast Met and Southern Regional College as a Culinary Lecturer. In 2018 Smyth was appointed Head Chef at the Castle Leslie Estate, Glaslough, County Monaghan.
The “one-of-a-kind castle was hand-built from granite quarried in British Columbia and hand-chiseled to fit on site,” the listing says. This ‘fairytale castle’ is every medieval lover’s ...
Samantha "Sammy" Leslie (born 1966) is a female Irish hotelier, media personality and reality television show judge. She is the trustee of the Castle Leslie estate in County Monaghan, being responsible for a hotel, a spa, an equestrian centre and an organic cookery school.
The house dates from 1690. This Georgian era house in the Queen Anne style architecture was built by John Leslie. [1] It remains the Leslie family home to this day, and is occasionally open to the public during the summer months.