homes historical ireland

Number 47 Dominick Street, now Galway Arts Centre, was once the town house of Lady Augusta Gregory. She was a leading light in the Irish Literary Revival at the turn of this century and at her home at Coole Park near Gort, she played host to Ireland's leading writers. Her city residence has since been home to Galway Corporation, and now the Arts Centre, which has regular exhibitions and theatre shows....

The gable end of each row, situated at right-angles to the street, has inset a blank half-moon recess, and the two groups of houses are linked by an arch bearing the inscription "St. John's Home, 1816" and the town's crest, a star and crescent. From this little square, a fine view may be obtained of the Tholsel, with Millmount and the southern slopes of the town in the background....

The Mansion House is the official residence of the Lord Mayor of Dublin. City Government has existed in Dublin since 1172 and the Mansion House has been the centre of Dublin's civic hospitality since 1715.
A splendid building, the Mansion House boasts many fine rooms and features and has established for itself a reputation of quality to compare with other renowned Dublin attractions, such as Trinity College, the National Art Gallery and City Hall.

On the 25th April 1715, Du...

Susan Langstaff Mitchell was born here in 1866. She was a poet and one of the figures of the Irish Literary Revival. Her father was manager of the Provincial Bank in Carrick.

Through her friendship with the Yeats family and her post as assistant to A.E. (George Russell) on "The Irish Homestead" she got to know Yeats, A.E., Colum, Stephens, George Moore and the others and became part of the Irish Literary Revival. She wrote both poetry and satire, and was considered...

A 250 year old traditional mud fisherman's cottage on the western shores of Lough Neagh in the townland of Aneeterbeg....

Cavanacor House was built in the early 1600s and is the ancestral home of James Knox Polk, eleventh President of the United States of America.

King James II dined here on the 20th April, 1689 and granted a protection to the house. The tree he dined under still stands in the grounds....

Built in the early fifteenth century as the residence of the priests who were employed to continuously chant the mass for church benefactors. It is one of the few surviving chantry houses left in Ireland....

One of the few surviving houses of the early 17th century in Ireland, this is an L-shaped house which was the first to be taken by Cromwell on his march from Dublin to Wexford in 1649. On the ground floor it has a main hall with a fireplace, a kitchen at right angles and stairs in a tower projecting from one side of the hall. The house has 23 single or double-mullioned windows, and two chimneys....

Purcell House or Loughmore Castle as it's otherwise called. It is located beside the river Suir ,and is extensive ruin with well preserved defensive features, windows and fireplace and a 17th century centre, north wing.

The castle was granted to young Purcell by the king,  when he supposily killed beasts that were living in the area. Purcell also recieved the King's daughter hand in marrige and lands that surronded the castle....