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Kilronan Castle County Roscommon 1840s. Kilronan Castle, previously known as Castle Tenison, is a large country house standing in 40 acres (16 ha) of parkland on the shore of Lough Meelagh in County Roscommon, Republic of Ireland, 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) from the village of Ballyfarnon.
She lived with her husband at Kilronan Castle, County Roscommon, a family estate which she and her husband significantly enlarged in the 1870s. [7] She took an active role in the building works, notably dismissing the builder Sir Thomas Newenham Deane after a disagreement over cost overruns. [8] She died in Trieste on 27 August 1882. [9]
Carrollcliffe, now the Castle Hotel & Spa, and also having been known as Axe Castle, is a building in Tarrytown, New York which was constructed to resemble a European castle, with crenellated towers. [1] It was built of stone in two stages, in 1897 and 1910, and has towers and turrets.
Clonalis House. Clonalis House (Irish: Teach Chluain Mhalais) is an historic manor house in Castlerea, County Roscommon, Ireland, and the ancestral home of the O'Conor Don, who are direct descendants of Cathal Crobhdearg Ua Conchobair, King of Connacht, a younger brother of Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair, the last High King of Ireland.
Today, the castle and estate functions as a hotel. [26] Castle Saunderson Belturbet 54°7′36″N 7°21′35″W: Castle: 1840: In the 1840s, the Saunderson family built a new mansion upon the land they had owned since the early 17th century and used it as their seat until 1977 when it was sold to a London-based business man.
Cootehall was formerly called Urtaheera, or O'Mulloy's Hall, and was, early in the 17th century, together with the manor attached to it, the property of William, styled "the Great O'Mulloy;" but in the war of 1641 it came into the possession of the English Cromwellian, Chidley Coote, nephew of the first Earl of Mountrath, and from that family took its present name.
Carton House, entrance Carton House in 2009, with boathouse. The Carton Demesne first came into the ownership of the FitzGerald family shortly after Maurice FitzGerald, Lord of Lanstephan (c. 1105-1176), an Anglo-Norman noble, played an active role in the capture of Dublin by the Normans in 1170 and was rewarded by being appointed Lord of Maynooth, an area covering townlands which include Carton.
Dromoland Castle was formerly the family seat of the Baron Inchiquin (built when the Barons became heirs of the extinct Marquesses of Thomond), until it was bought by United States citizen Bernard P. McDonough in 1962. [2] It has since then been converted for use as a luxury hotel. [2] Dromoland Castle Hotel is a member of Historic Hotels ...