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The destruction of country houses in Ireland was a phenomenon of the Irish revolutionary period (1919–1923), which saw at least 275 country houses deliberately burned down, blown up, or otherwise destroyed by the Irish Republican Army (IRA). [1]
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 .
Later surges in sales and destruction of items occurred during the Easter Rising in 1916 and later again with the destruction of Irish country houses (1919–1923) during the Irish War of Independence.
Pages in category "Country houses in Ireland" ... Carhue House; Castle Blunden; Castle Gurteen de la Poer ... Destruction of Irish country houses (1919–1923)
The Irish Republican Army followed a policy of deliberate destruction of Irish country houses (1919–1923). ... One notable building, the Kellogg House, still ...
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.
On 25 May 1921, during the Irish War of Independence, the Custom House in Dublin was occupied and then burnt in an operation by the Irish Republican Army (IRA). The Custom House was the headquarters of the Local Government Board for Ireland, an agency of the British administration in Ireland, against which the IRA was fighting in the name of ...
Anglo-Irish big house; Destruction of Irish country houses (1919–1923) List of historic houses in the Republic of Ireland; Number 10 Henrietta Street, Dublin, also known as Blessington House; Transition Year students at the local secondary school St Marks, built a model of the Manor House of Blessington during the 2000/2001 school year. [59]