| Description |
Built in 1703 by Joseph Wright son of James Wright and his second wife Mary Slacke (www.thesilverbowl.com). It was the home of the Wright later Woodwright family in the 18th and 19th centuries. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation the Reverend William E. H. Woodwright was resident. The buildings were valued at £25. In 1901, Patrick Callaghan, steward, was resident in Gola. Sir John Banks (1815-1908) was the proprietor. He was a well-known Dublin physican who had married in 1848 Alice Woodwright. Their only child Mary married Willoughby Burrell 4th Baron Gwydyr in 1873. On 25 February 1921 Gola was burnt and subsequently demolished. |
