homes historical ireland

King House, built by Sir Henry King about 1730 is a house of unique architectural and historical importance.

Situated on the Boyle River, within the town of Boyle, it occupies land formerly controlled by the MacDermot Clan and is the most important provincial town house in Ireland.

Home to the Connaught Rangers regiment from 1788 and the Irish Army since then, recent extensive restoration has brought King House back to its former glory.

With the aid of exciting special...

Built run by An Oige. It was here that Lady Gregory and W.B. Yeats met in 1898 and began the discussion that led to the Irish National Theatre....

This is a splendid building incorporating the old castle of the Wogan-Brownes, several of whom were distinguished soldiers in European armies. Clongowes was opened as a boys college by the society of Jesus in 1814. For a time in the 1890's James Joyce was a pupil and re-created his experience of student life there and at Belvedere College in his Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Some remains of the Pale, the fortification that once marked the boundary of English influence in Ireland,...

Russborough was built in the 18th century and designed by Richard Castle for Joseph Leeson, Earl of Milltown. The building of the house began in about 1741 and took nearly ten years to complete.
The house is built of granite in the Palladian style. The front facade has a fine flight of steps, with heraldic lions and urns, a sweep of graceful curved colonnades crowned on the skyline with Baroque urns, and well proportioned solid flanking wings. It has fine examples of plasterwork by th...

Birthplace of New Zealand Premier John Ballance (1839 - 93). Audio-visual presentations, exhibitions and reference library explain the many connections between Ireland and New Zealand.

The Ballance House is administered by the charity THE ULSTER NEW ZEALAND TRUST....

When the Italian stuccodores Paolo and Filippo La Francini came to Ireland in 1734 their first and most important early work was for Jemmett Browne, later Archbishop of Cork. In the 1730s Dr. Browne enlarged and remodelled the original 1602 Riverstown House. The La Francinis adorned the ceiling of the dining-room with allegorical figures representing 'Time rescuing Truth from the Assaults of Discord and Envy' and also its walls with classical figures and exuberant rococco flowers and foliage....

Lissadell - "That old Georgian Mansion" in the words of W.B. Yeats - is still owned by the Gore-Booth family. A fine but austere example of Greek-Revival architecture, it is full of many artefacts associated with succeeding generations of the family. Visitors can expect a genuine atmosphere of faded grandeur....

At Nos 80-81 St Stephen's Green is Iveagh House, now the Department of Foreign Affairs, which was presented to the state by the Earl of Iveagh, head of the Guinness family....

The orininal house was built Francis Sachevrell but was later exetend by his son-in law Edward Richardson in 1664, with curvilinear Dutch gables. Edward was the Member of Parliment for Armagh at the time, and whom the town today, get it name from. 
Its a magnificent house with fine furnising such as the bog-oak stairscase.
 
The house is also belived to be haunted.

Only the grounds are open to the pubic, admission into t...