homes historical ireland

Enjoy the gardens, great food, luxury guestrooms and the historical surroundings of the impressive Kilmokea House, in Campile in County Wexford. This accommodation is housed in a magnificent Georgian property built in 1794, and surrounded by 7 acres of exotic gardens on the banks of the River Barrow, creating the perfect setting for a peaceful break in the countryside.
The former rectory has undergone lavish restoration to provide the utmost in comfort and relaxation....

Mount Stewart offers to the visitor one of the most complete gardens in the care of the National Trust. The garden, designed by Edith, Lady of Londonderry from 1921, includes almost every style of gardening and supports an incomparable plant collection.

Frances and Charles, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, became celebrated figures, leading a glittering social life and travelling extensively. They collected works of art and furniture on their travels and brought them back to Mount Stewa...

The Custom House, designed by the renowned James Gandon, was completed in 1791 and is one of Dublin's finest heritage buildings. It has played a unique role in Dublin's social, economic and political history over the past 200 years.

The Visitor Centre is located in and around the Dome or Clocktower area which contains the most important interior features to have survived the destruction of the building by fire in 1921, during the War of Independence.

The Centre includes a Gando...

Coole Park is the former home of Lady Augusta Gregory, a great friend of W.B. Yeats and co-founder of the Abbey Theatre. It's located about 3km north of the county Galway town of Gort and is operated by the National Parks & Wildlife Service. It spans about 1,000 acres and includes 6km of nature trails, 7 woods and of course Coole Lake.
Coole House, since demolished, was a focal point in the Celtic Literary Revival at the turn of the century. The initials of notable visitors to Coole Hou...

Passing eastwards to Elphin you pass Raheen House, once the home of the Irwins, where, on a visit there, Goldsmith got the idea for his play She Stoops to Conquer. Elphin, which had been the seat of a bishopric for 1500 years, has given its name to the diocese. St. Patrick founded a religious establishment here, over which he placed St. Assicus as its first bishop; he is the patron saint of the Elphin diocese to this day....

Magnificent country house, seat of the Bagenal family for three centuries. The house is of  Tudor Gothic style.

Now open for visitiors....

Ballyfin house is possibly the finest neo-classical houses in the country. Built in 1821-6 in Slieve Bloom sandstone by Sir Charles Coote to the designs first of Dominic Madden (best known for Tuam Cathedral) and then Sir Richard Morrison and his son William Vitruvius. On entering by the tetrastyle ionic portico and through the formal entrance hall one is confronted by a magnificent suite of rooms.

Adjoining the library is a superb Richard Turner conservatory. The grounds were lan...

Whatever the great Victorian mansion at Clonalis may lack in architectural beauty, it certainly gains through its historical associations with the O'Connor Dons, descendants of the last High Kings of Ireland whose possession of these lands can be traced back over 1,500 years....

To the north of the Abbey Theatre is Marlborough Street. Tyrone House, built by Richard Cassels in 1742, is now occupied by the Department of Education, and contains fine stuccowork by the Lafrancini brothers....