Salrock
Houses within 10km of this house
Displaying 11 houses.
Houses within 10km of Salrock
Displaying 11 houses.
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| Doolough | At the time of Griffith's Valuation Doolough was leased by Captain William Houstoun from the Marquis of Sligo's estate and valued at £15. It is now a ruin surrounded by trees. |
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| Delphi Lodge | The house was built circa 1820 by the 2nd Marquess of Sligo, who had visited Delphi in Greece. It was leased to Thomas Spencer Lindsey of Hollymount House, county Mayo in the 1820s, to Stepney St George of Headford Castle, county Galway in the 1830s and to the Honourable Reverend William Conynham Plunket (later Archbishop of Dublin 1884-1887) in the 1850s. He was succeeded as tenant by Captain and Mrs Houstoun and other members of the Houstoun family. When the 6th Marquess of Sligo sold his estate to the Land Commission, he bought back this property and the 20th century history of Delphi Lodge is well documented in the Westport Estate Papers. The house was bought by Peter Mantle in the 1980s and is now run as a guest house specializing in fishing holidays. |
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| Killary Lodge | Killary Lodge is marked on the south shore of Killary Harbour on the first Ordnance Survey map. A herd's house, valued at £1 and leased by John King from the Kilkelly estate is located here at the time of Griffith's Valuation. |
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| Renvyle | The house at Renvyle was inhabited by the O'Flahertys in 1811 and was described by Henry Blake in his ''Letters from the Irish Highlands''.The Blakes went to live at Renvyle in the early 1820s and an additional storey was added in the mid 19th century. Run as a guest house in the 1880s, it was bought by Oliver St John Gogarty in 1917. Badly burnt in 1923 he rebuilt it as a hotel. |
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| Letterfrack | Originally a farm house built by John Ellis, it later became a monastery and a community craft shop. |
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| Ballinakill Lodge | A house built in the early 1840s for the Graham family. Occupied by Minnie Graham in 1906. In 1907 it was accidently burnt and never rebuilt. |
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| Kylemore Abbey | A very large residence built in the late 1860s for Mitchell Henry with extensive gardens, incorporating the former Kylemore Lodge. Later a home of the Duke and Duchess of Manchester. Now a school and tourist business run by a French order of Benedictine nuns. |
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| Dernasliggaun | A house on the shore of Killary Harbour, named after a small lough in the townland of Tullyconnor, built by Alexander C. Lambert on a farm of 250 acres leased from Colonel Alexander Thomson in 1854. | |
| Addergoole | Built in the late 1840s or early 1850s by Thomas Eastwood and later the location of the Kylemore farm buildings. |
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| Kylemore House | Built by the Reverend Joseph Duncan on the shore of Kylemore Lake in the early 1850s and run as a hotel for sportsmen. Occupied by Talbot Clifton in the early 20th century and for a time by St John Gogarty after Renvyle House was burnt in the 1920s. Still run as a guest house by Nancy Naughton. |
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| Kylemore Lodge | Built circa 1900 possibly as a shooting lodge of the Guinness family, now run as a B & B. |
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