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Castle Coole (from Irish: Cúl [1]) is a townland and a late-18th-century neo-classical mansion situated in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. Set in a 1,200-acre (490 ha) wooded estate, it is one of three properties owned and managed by the National Trust in County Fermanagh, the others being Florence Court and the Crom Estate .
Lowry inherited the Corry family estate of Castle Coole in 1774, and took the additional name of Corry in recognition of this inheritance. The papers of the Lowry-Corry family show that the earl's political ambitions were a significant factor in the rebuilding of Castle Coole , which is widely regarded as the most palatial Classical 18th ...
Castle Coole, 17th century house (site of), bawn (site of) and formal garden, grid ref: H2574 4333 Cavancarragh , Standing stone alignments, grid ref: H2990 4495 Cavancarragh , Possible megalithic tomb, grid ref: H2997 4496
He had already been created Baron Belmore, of Castle Coole in County Fermanagh (now in Northern Ireland), in 1781 [2] and Viscount Belmore in 1789, [3] also in the Peerage of Ireland. Born Armar Lowry, he was the son of Galbraith Lowry, Member of the Irish House of Commons for County Tyrone, and his wife Sarah, daughter of Colonel John Corry .
The first phase of a redevelopment project to upgrade the area around Clifford's Tower in York could begin next year after plans were revised, councillors heard. The Castle Gateway masterplan ...
The Crom Estate (pronounced K-ROM') is a nature reserve located in the south of County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, along the shores of Upper Lough Erne.It is one of three estates owned and managed by the National Trust in County Fermanagh, the others being Florence Court and Castle Coole mansions.
The architectural historian Gervase Jackson-Stops describes Castle Coole as "a culmination of the Palladian traditions, yet strictly neoclassical in its chaste ornament and noble austerity", [145] while Alistair Rowan, in his 1979 volume, North West Ulster, of the Buildings of Ireland series, suggests that, at Coole, Wyatt designed a building ...
In some large houses from the beginning of the 19th century, enormous and ingenious efforts of building and design were employed to keep the staff out of sight. The service wings were often only accessed by tunnels as at Rockingham house and Castle Coole, both, in Ireland. At Mentmore Towers, where the service wing is a large block the same ...