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Eyrecourt Castle (or Eyre Court) was an Irish 17th century country house in Galway which became a ruin in the 20th century. The house, the surrounding estate, and the nearby small town of Eyrecourt all took their name from Colonel the Right Hon. John Eyre, an Englishman who was granted a large parcel of land in recognition of his part in the military campaign in Galway during the Cromwellian ...
The Eyres after whom the village is named, as well as other places such as Eyre Square in Galway City, were an English family who came over with Cromwell. [3] Their former residence, Eyrecourt Castle (now a ruin), [4] provides the large metal gateway at the eastern end of main street and the 100-acre (0.40 km 2) castle lawn beyond.
Giles Eyre (1689–1749) was an Anglican priest in Ireland in the eighteenth century. [1]His father John Eyre of Eyrecourt Castle (died 1741) was a grandson of John Eyre, the Cromwellian settler in Galway. [1]
The estate also owns over 50,000 acres of Welsh upland and common land, mainly rough grazing land, [40] and 250,000 acres of mineral deposits and the rights to gold and silver. [41] Various offshore wind projects are part of the Crown Estate in Wales, including the proposed Awel y Môr, [ 42 ] Erebus 100MW Test and Demonstration project, and ...
Warwick Castle Over its 950 years of history it has been owned by 36 different individuals, plus four periods as crown property under seven different monarchs. It was the family seat of three separate creations of the Earls of Warwick, and has been a family home for members of the Beaumont , Beauchamp, Neville, Plantagenet , Dudley and Greville ...
The estate, first settled in 1674, was originally named Ballyleidy, [2] after the townland in which it lay. The current Clandeboye House was built in 1801–1804 to a design by Robert Woodgate that incorporated elements of the previous building and was built for the politician Sir James Blackwood, 2nd Baron Dufferin and Clandeboye. [3]
Colonel John Browne (1638–1711), built the first Westport House on the site of the O'Malley castle of Cahernamart. [1] He married Maud Bourke, daughter of Theobald Bourke, 3rd Viscount Mayo and the great-great-granddaughter of Grace O'Malley. [1] He was a Roman Catholic who fought on the Jacobite side in the War of the Two Kings. At that time ...
It is believed that a castle was erected on the site in the twelfth century, [6] however the core of the current house is a medieval tower-house. This was extended in 1700 when a house was built around a court with the medieval tower-house incorporated at the north-eastern side.