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Ballynastragh House depicted in 1826, typical of the "Big Houses" targeted by the IRA.By the start of the Irish revolutionary period in 1919, the Big House had become symbolic of the 18th and 19th-century dominance of the Protestant Anglo-Irish class in Ireland at the expense of the native Roman Catholic population, particularly in southern and western Ireland.
Country houses in Northern Ireland (1 C, 19 P) Pages in category "Country houses in Ireland" The following 50 pages are in this category, out of 50 total.
Writing in Country Life, Kate Green sees historic household inventories that record the contents of rooms as "an essential documentary tool for understanding the use and appearance of houses in the distant past", and, for the benefit of those "with a serious interest in Irish Georgian houses", sees Great Irish Households as "an essential work ...
Country houses in Ireland (1 C, 50 P) H. Historic house museums in Ireland (2 C) Historic houses in County Waterford (10 P) M. Mock castles in Ireland (1 P)
Bence-Jones is best known for his authorship of Burke's Guide to Country Houses Volume 1: Ireland (1978). This was an ambitious work, trying to record the architecture of all the Irish country houses, including those that were, by then, lost or ruined. [2] He made copious use of photographs and family albums in private ownership. [2]
The term big house (Irish: teach mór) refers to the country houses, mansions, or estate houses of the historical landed class in Ireland.The houses formed the symbolic focal point of the landed Anglo-Irish political dominance of Ireland from the late 16th century, and many were destroyed or attacked during the Irish revolutionary period.
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