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Doonagore Castle is a round 16th-century tower house with a small walled enclosure located about 1 km south of the coastal village of Doolin in County Clare, Ireland. Its name may be derived from Dún na Gabhair, meaning "the fort of the rounded hills" or the "fort of the goats". Doonagore Castle is at present a private holiday home ...
Doolin House, or Doolin Castle, was a property of the MacNamaras of Ennistymon. After likely having served as their main residence in the 19th century, by the early 20th century it was a summer home. The poet Francis MacNamara used it this way in the 1910s.
This is an incomplete index of the current and historical principal family seats of clans, peers and landed gentry families in Ireland. Most of the houses belonged to the Old English and Anglo-Irish aristocracy, and many of those located in the present Republic of Ireland were abandoned, sold or destroyed following the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War of the early 1920s.
Doolin (Irish: Dúlainn) [1] is a coastal village in County Clare, Ireland, on the Atlantic coast. It is southwest of the spa town of Lisdoonvarna and 4 miles from the Cliffs of Moher. It is a noted centre of traditional Irish music , which is played nightly in its pubs, making it a popular tourist destination.
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It was a home of the Joyce family of County Galway in the 20th century, from the 1920s to 2016. [31] As a gentry seat, [2] Newhall hosted fox hunts and balls [5] and was (and remains) a working farm. In 2016, the estate was purchased by the Commane family, a local family originating ancestrally from Newhall, who are restoring it to its original ...
Liscannor (Irish: Lios Ceannúir, meaning 'ringfort of Ceannúr') [7] [8] is a coastal village in County Clare, Ireland. It is located on the R478 road between Lahinch and Doolin, close to the Cliffs of Moher. As of the 2016 census it had a population of 113. [1]
Ennistymon House, sometimes known as Ennistimon House, is a former country house in the village of Ennistymon, County Clare in Ireland. Built on the elevated site of a medieval castle, the 18th century house is now in use as a hotel. [1] The hotel, the Falls Hotel, is owned by members of the McCarthy family. [2]