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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, Ireland, 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) from the village of Ballyfarnon.
Ballyfarnon (historically Bellafernan, from Irish: Béal Átha Fearnáin, meaning 'ford-mouth of the alders') [2] is a village in northern County Roscommon, Ireland.Built on the River Feorish at the foot of Arigna Mountain, it lies between Loughs Skean and Meelagh with Lough Arrow, Lough Allen, Lough Bo and Lough-na-Sool nearby.
Kilronan Castle lies on the shores of Lough Meelagh which also borders the town. Previously in ruins, it was restored and converted into a hotel in 2008. Keadue is a twice overall winner of the Irish Tidy Towns Competition in 1993 and 2003, as well as numerous awards for the tidiest town in the county.
The castle's architecture would suggest that the castle was built by a Norman lord c. 1300 and was likely abandoned in the 14th century. [3] Near the end of the 16th century, the castle was occupied by the Kavanghs and then passed to the Bagenals, and then finally to the Bruens in the 19th century.
Cill Rónáin (Irish: meaning "Church of Ronan"), unofficially anglicized as Kilronan, [1] is the main settlement on Inishmore, one of the Aran Islands off the coast of County Galway in Ireland. The ferries serving the island call at Doolin , County Clare and also Rossaveal , County Galway.
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Born in 1805 at Kilronan Castle, [5] King Tenison was the son of Thomas Tenison and Lady Frances King. [6] [7] He was also the grandson of Edward King, 1st Earl of Kingston, and cousin of Robert King, 6th Earl of Kingston.
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