Unique ID,Name,Address 1,Address 2,County,Contact Details,Property History,X Co-ord,Y Co-ord,Website,Image,About Us
1,Annes Grove Miniature Castle,Castletownroche,,Cork,Tel: +353 1 670 4733  Fax: +353 1 670 4887  Email: bookings@irishlandmark.com,"An intensely romantic property, Annes Grove is built in Gothic style, the building being a medieval castle in miniature. It is situated at the junction of three quiet country roads and surrounded by mature beech trees, which cradle the property and stonewalls. Inside timber ceilings, wood floors, stone arches, and snug rooms make this property an idyllic setting for those looking for a romantic break. Annes Grove was designed by Benjamin Woodward, of the distinguished firm of architects Deane and Woodward in 1849. Since Woodward designed only two gatelodges of this type, it is of some architectural importance. The lodge, prior to restoration, had not been lived in since the 1940s.",567460,605490,http://www.irishlandmark.com/,LT1,"Irish Landmark is a non-profit organisation that finds interesting and unusual properties that are in need of conservation, and we give them new life. Since 1992, we’ve been turning historic buildings into truly special self-catering holiday accommodation. Our properties range from lighthouses and schoolhouses, to castles and gate lodges. As an educational charity, our primary aim is to conserve and sustain iconic buildings. That’s why Irish Landmark properties are living buildings, not museum settings. Irish Landmark always respects the history and architectural integrity of the structures we conserve, but we also ensure they have all the contemporary comforts you want in a holiday home."
2,Ballealy Cottage,Shanes Castle Estate,,Antrim,Tel: +353 1 670 4733  Fax: +353 1 670 4887  Email: bookings@irishlandmark.com,"Ballealy Cottage was built in 1865 for the deerkeeper on the Shane's Castle estate, beside Lough Neagh, Co. Antrim. Set in a woodland by a stream, Ballealy presents a fairytale appearance of irregular gables and half-hipped roofs, edged with ornate bargeboards of trefoils and bold horned curls. Ballealy is built around a tiny central courtyard and is entered through an arched passageway. The outbuildings include a venison store. It was built from local blackstone c.1835 for the estate deerkeeper and modelled, in miniature, on the lodge of the Windsor forest ranger, possibly by the architect Richard Morrison.",707713,887974,http://www.irishlandmark.com/,LT2,"Irish Landmark is a non-profit organisation that finds interesting and unusual properties that are in need of conservation, and we give them new life. Since 1992, we’ve been turning historic buildings into truly special self-catering holiday accommodation. Our properties range from lighthouses and schoolhouses, to castles and gate lodges. As an educational charity, our primary aim is to conserve and sustain iconic buildings. That’s why Irish Landmark properties are living buildings, not museum settings. Irish Landmark always respects the history and architectural integrity of the structures we conserve, but we also ensure they have all the contemporary comforts you want in a holiday home."
3,Barbican,Glenarm,,Antrim,Tel: +353 1 670 4733  Fax: +353 1 670 4887  Email: bookings@irishlandmark.com,"The story behind the building of this remarkable early nineteenth century gateway is a highly romantic one. Randal William McDonnell, the sixth earl of Antrim, died in 1791, leaving no sons, so his estates and titles were divided between his three daughters, with the proviso that these would all ultimately pass to their senior male offspring. One daughter died young of TB, and Anne Catherine, the eldest, was styled Countess of Antrim in her own right. She had the family seat at Glenarm, as well as a fine house in London, while Charlotte, her surviving younger sister, had a less certain future. In 1799 both girls married. Anne Catherine’s husband was a wealthy Englishman called Sir Harry Vane Tempest, but their only child was a girl, so the eldest son of Anne Catherine’s younger sister, Charlotte, stood to inherit the whole property. Inevitably this was the cause of much friction. Sir Harry died in 1813, and four years later, in 1817 Anne Catherine fell in love with a man called Edmund Phelps. She married him within a month of their first meeting, which caused much amazement, as he was ten years her junior, and of humble origins. Edmund’s mother kept a hat shop in Plymouth, his father was the local auctioneer, and he had previously been another peer’s private secretary. He prudently changed his name from Phelps to McDonnell when he married Anne Catherine. In fact Edmund was a remarkably positive influence. He made Anne Catherine sell her London house and live at Glenarm, so as to look after her estate properly, and in 1823 he commissioned a well-known Dublin architect called William Morrison to improve the property. Anne Catherine’s first husband, Sir Harry, had already tried to turn the Palladian mansion into a castle by giving it Gothic windows and removing its colonnades, but Morrison’s plans were more ambitious. He added towers to each corner of the house, as well as a substantial Elizabethan-looking wing, designed appropriate new facades, and turned the entrance gate into a medieval masterpiece. The ‘Barbican’, as the entrance gate was named, had previously been a fairly simple one storey Palladian building overlooking the old bridge to the village, with a simple wall on either side running along the edge of the river. Morrison transformed this into a battlemented fortification with towers at regular intervals and the Barbican gateway at its centre. Walkways were made behind the battlements, to create romantic walks for the inhabitants, and local basalt was used throughout, to give the walls and towers an appropriately somber appearance, though red sandstone dressings were used for the finer detailing of the Barbican. Over the gate, looking out over the bridge, an ancient sandstone coat of arms was inserted. This had originally graced the front of the castle when it had been built by the first earl in 1636, while the other side of the barbican was also given a commemorative plaque: THIS GATEWAY  WAS BUILT AND THE CASTLE RESTORED BY EDMUND M’DONNELL, ESQUIRE, AND HIS WIFE ANNE KATHERINE, IN HER OWN RIGHT COUNTESS OF ANTRIM AND VISCOUNTESS DUNLUCE A.D. 1825. Morrison designed the Barbican in 1824, the year before it was built, but his plans for the castle were not completed until the 1840s. There have been substantial alterations to the castle since, including the demolition of most of Morrison’s wing and the alteration of many windows, so it is extremely fortunate that the Barbican and its surrounding battlements, the finest part of this romantic ensemble, remain intact. It is perhaps worth noting that Morrison and the Antrims called the entrance gate ‘The Barbican’ so as to emphasise the Gothic fantasy. A medieval barbican was a very strong part of the outer defences of a city or castle, usually the double tower built above a gate or drawbridge. Edmund Phelps and Anne Catherine had no children, so the estate and titles passed to her sister Charlotte’s sons and their descendants, while Anne Catherine’s daughter, who was a considerable heiress, thanks to her father, married Lord Londonderry.",730930,915110,http://www.irishlandmark.com/,LT3,"Irish Landmark is a non-profit organisation that finds interesting and unusual properties that are in need of conservation, and we give them new life. Since 1992, we’ve been turning historic buildings into truly special self-catering holiday accommodation. Our properties range from lighthouses and schoolhouses, to castles and gate lodges. As an educational charity, our primary aim is to conserve and sustain iconic buildings. That’s why Irish Landmark properties are living buildings, not museum settings. Irish Landmark always respects the history and architectural integrity of the structures we conserve, but we also ensure they have all the contemporary comforts you want in a holiday home."
4,Batty Langley Lodge,Leixlip,,Kildare,Tel: +353 1 670 4733  Fax: +353 1 670 4887  Email: bookings@irishlandmark.com,"This elegant two storey building with its seven stone pinnacles was designed to be viewed from the River Walk below as part of the planned landscape surrounding the world famous Palladian Castletown House. Thomas Conolly and Lady Louisa inherited Castletown in 1754 and turned Castletown demesne into one of the great designed landscapes of Ireland, visited and admired by both foreign and native visitors until its period of decline in the nineteenth century. Based on a design for a 'Gothick Temple' taken from Batty Langley's book Gothic Architecture published in 1747, the façade of the lodge was added to the existing rectangular cottage in 1785.   Thus the lodge became known as the 'Batty Langley Lodge'. Situated far from the town of Celbridge and on the very edge of the estate, the buildings privacy made it a suitable location for the priviledged nobility to indulge their fantasies and escape to the lodge to don the mask of simple farmwives or dairymaids. Conservation of Batty Langley Lodge was 100% funded through the OPW.",698730,734000,http://www.irishlandmark.com/,LT4,"Irish Landmark is a non-profit organisation that finds interesting and unusual properties that are in need of conservation, and we give them new life. Since 1992, we’ve been turning historic buildings into truly special self-catering holiday accommodation. Our properties range from lighthouses and schoolhouses, to castles and gate lodges. As an educational charity, our primary aim is to conserve and sustain iconic buildings. That’s why Irish Landmark properties are living buildings, not museum settings. Irish Landmark always respects the history and architectural integrity of the structures we conserve, but we also ensure they have all the contemporary comforts you want in a holiday home."
5,Blackhead Lightkeeper's House 1,Whitehead,,Antrim,Tel: +353 1 670 4733  Fax: +353 1 670 4887  Email: bookings@irishlandmark.com,"The lighthouse was built on the north shore of the entrance to Belfast Lough in 1901, opposite its twin across the Lough at Mew Island. These two were important in protecting commercial shipping when steam replaced sail in the mid 19th Century, and would have guided all of the great ships of Belfast's shipbuilding glory days, including the ill fated Titanic. The houses contain interesting fragments of lighthouse paraphernalia, including the whistle pipe system used to wake up the next watch, and a tunnel that was used to travel between the lighthouse and quarters during stormy weather. Built in the glory days of Belfast's shipping, Blackhead Lighthouse remains as impressive and powerful a navigation aid as ever. ",748694,893459,http://www.irishlandmark.com/,LT5,"Irish Landmark is a non-profit organisation that finds interesting and unusual properties that are in need of conservation, and we give them new life. Since 1992, we’ve been turning historic buildings into truly special self-catering holiday accommodation. Our properties range from lighthouses and schoolhouses, to castles and gate lodges. As an educational charity, our primary aim is to conserve and sustain iconic buildings. That’s why Irish Landmark properties are living buildings, not museum settings. Irish Landmark always respects the history and architectural integrity of the structures we conserve, but we also ensure they have all the contemporary comforts you want in a holiday home."
6,Blackhead Lightkeeper's House 2,Whitehead,,Antrim,Tel: +353 1 670 4733  Fax: +353 1 670 4887  Email: bookings@irishlandmark.com,"The lighthouse was built on the north shore of the entrance to Belfast Lough in 1901, opposite its twin across the Lough at Mew Island. These two were important in protecting commercial shipping when steam replaced sail in the mid 19th Century, and would have guided all of the great ships of Belfast's shipbuilding glory days, including the ill fated Titanic. The houses contain interesting fragments of lighthouse paraphernalia, including the whistle pipe system used to wake up the next watch, and a tunnel that was used to travel between the lighthouse and quarters during stormy weather. Built in the glory days of Belfast's shipping, Blackhead Lighthouse remains as impressive and powerful a navigation aid as ever. ",748689,893442,http://www.irishlandmark.com/,LT6,"Irish Landmark is a non-profit organisation that finds interesting and unusual properties that are in need of conservation, and we give them new life. Since 1992, we’ve been turning historic buildings into truly special self-catering holiday accommodation. Our properties range from lighthouses and schoolhouses, to castles and gate lodges. As an educational charity, our primary aim is to conserve and sustain iconic buildings. That’s why Irish Landmark properties are living buildings, not museum settings. Irish Landmark always respects the history and architectural integrity of the structures we conserve, but we also ensure they have all the contemporary comforts you want in a holiday home."
7,Castletown Gate House,Celbridge,,Kildare,Tel: +353 1 670 4733  Fax: +353 1 670 4887  Email: bookings@irishlandmark.com,"Three Gate Lodges grace the entrance to the magnificent Palladian Castletown House, one of the most important eighteenth century estates in Ireland. The Lodges are known locally as The Round House, The Pottery and The Gate House. These vernacular buildings form an important part of the Celbridge streetscape and are in fact a very important landmark for both locals and visitors to the area. The Gate Lodges form a significant and integral part of the Castletown Estate. Unfortunately very little historical information remains for the Gate Lodges. However the importance of Castletown House reflects upon the importance of the Lodges. The Round House, the lodge on the corner of the Maynooth Road with the bowed entrance was probably the first house to be built on the site. Originally the Lodge was a single square bay with a small square projecting entrance.  Part of the Lodge has a steep roof, heavy roof beams with thick walls and corner fireplaces inside which all suggest an early eighteenth century construction date.  The Lodge may even be earlier than Castletown House although there is no building shown on the Noble and Keenan map of 1752.  It is likely that both the later two storey additions, one facing the Main Street and the other facing the Maynooth Road were built before the Gate House for which we have a definite construction date of 1783.  The small square entrance was also replaced with a bowed projecting entrance bay to the front which adds to the unique character of this building. Family papers note that the gate piers were completed in 1783 and suggest that the lodge nearest the gate, now called The Gate House, was also complete at this time and occupied by an elderly couple. Transcripts of the letters from Lady Louisa Conolly to Lady Sarah Lennox reveal the following:- 1783, October 1st, Castletown: 'The piers to Celbridge Gate are finished, and what is extradordinary to say of Paddy workmen in general is, that the Stone Cutters work and iron work are so well finished for the sort of material that they are done in, that it is quite pleasant.  The rubbish of the Lodge, (which by the way is a very comfortable one for the old couple that inhabit it) is all cleared away and I am now actually employed in planting and making it pretty all about…' Not only a Landmark but a home - Memories of the Mercier Family. In the 1950's the Mercier family lived in the Lodges.  The Trust was fortunate enough to  have the opportunity to meet David Mercier and his sister Gwen who lived in the lodges with their two sisters, Gladys and Valerie and their parents. They explained that originally the family lived in the first lodge in the early 1950's but then later in the 50's they moved to the second lodge where they had the luxury of an indoor bathroom.  In the first lodge they only had an outdoor toilet in the shed at the back of the house. In the 1950's there were only four cars in Celbridge.  As there was so little trafffic, the Merciers and the other children used to pour water on the main street, let it freeze and use it as an ice-skating rink. In the late 1950's, the Mercier's moved again, this time to the third gatelodge.  The lodges were furnished very simply with lino on the floor which was polished every Saturday using Johnston's wax polish.  All the woodwork was painted either brown or cream. To the right of the lodges there was a wrought iron gate which led to a garden their mother was really proud of.  Here she grew vegetables for the family. The town of Celbridge has a deep historical background.  Celbridge Abbey was built by Bartholomew Van Homrigh, Lord Mayer of Dublin, in 1697.   It was his daughter, Esther Van Homrigh, who was immortalised as ""Vanessa"" by Jonathan Swift, who came regularly from his deanery to visit her.  The Rock Bridge, situated in the grounds of Celbridge Abbey, is reputed to be the oldest remaining stone bridge that crosses the River Liffey.  Celbridge is also the birthplace of Arthur Guinness, founder of the Guinness Brewery family business. ",697420,733350,http://www.irishlandmark.com/,LT7,"Irish Landmark is a non-profit organisation that finds interesting and unusual properties that are in need of conservation, and we give them new life. Since 1992, we’ve been turning historic buildings into truly special self-catering holiday accommodation. Our properties range from lighthouses and schoolhouses, to castles and gate lodges. As an educational charity, our primary aim is to conserve and sustain iconic buildings. That’s why Irish Landmark properties are living buildings, not museum settings. Irish Landmark always respects the history and architectural integrity of the structures we conserve, but we also ensure they have all the contemporary comforts you want in a holiday home."
8,Castletown Round House,Celbridge,,Kildare,Tel: +353 1 670 4733  Fax: +353 1 670 4887  Email: bookings@irishlandmark.com,"Three Gate Lodges grace the entrance to the magnificent Palladian Castletown House, one of the most important eighteenth century estates in Ireland. The Lodges are known locally as The Round House, The Pottery and The Gate House. These vernacular buildings form an important part of the Celbridge streetscape and are in fact a very important landmark for both locals and visitors to the area. The Gate Lodges form a significant and integral part of the Castletown Estate. Unfortunately very little historical information remains for the Gate Lodges. However the importance of Castletown House reflects upon the importance of the Lodges. The Round House, the lodge on the corner of the Maynooth Road with the bowed entrance was probably the first house to be built on the site. Originally the Lodge was a single square bay with a small square projecting entrance.  Part of the Lodge has a steep roof, heavy roof beams with thick walls and corner fireplaces inside which all suggest an early eighteenth century construction date.  The Lodge may even be earlier than Castletown House although there is no building shown on the Noble and Keenan map of 1752.  It is likely that both the later two storey additions, one facing the Main Street and the other facing the Maynooth Road were built before the Gate House for which we have a definite construction date of 1783.  The small square entrance was also replaced with a bowed projecting entrance bay to the front which adds to the unique character of this building. Family papers note that the gate piers were completed in 1783 and suggest that the lodge nearest the gate, now called The Gate House, was also complete at this time and occupied by an elderly couple. Transcripts of the letters from Lady Louisa Conolly to Lady Sarah Lennox reveal the following:- 1783, October 1st, Castletown: 'The piers to Celbridge Gate are finished, and what is extradordinary to say of Paddy workmen in general is, that the Stone Cutters work and iron work are so well finished for the sort of material that they are done in, that it is quite pleasant.  The rubbish of the Lodge, (which by the way is a very comfortable one for the old couple that inhabit it) is all cleared away and I am now actually employed in planting and making it pretty all about…' Not only a Landmark but a home - Memories of the Mercier Family. In the 1950's the Mercier family lived in the Lodges.  The Trust was fortunate enough to  have the opportunity to meet David Mercier and his sister Gwen who lived in the lodges with their two sisters, Gladys and Valerie and their parents. They explained that originally the family lived in the first lodge in the early 1950's but then later in the 50's they moved to the second lodge where they had the luxury of an indoor bathroom.  In the first lodge they only had an outdoor toilet in the shed at the back of the house. In the 1950's there were only four cars in Celbridge.  As there was so little trafffic, the Merciers and the other children used to pour water on the main street, let it freeze and use it as an ice-skating rink. In the late 1950's, the Mercier's moved again, this time to the third gatelodge.  The lodges were furnished very simply with lino on the floor which was polished every Saturday using Johnston's wax polish.  All the woodwork was painted either brown or cream. To the right of the lodges there was a wrought iron gate which led to a garden their mother was really proud of.  Here she grew vegetables for the family. The town of Celbridge has a deep historical background.  Celbridge Abbey was built by Bartholomew Van Homrigh, Lord Mayer of Dublin, in 1697.   It was his daughter, Esther Van Homrigh, who was immortalised as ""Vanessa"" by Jonathan Swift, who came regularly from his deanery to visit her.  The Rock Bridge, situated in the grounds of Celbridge Abbey, is reputed to be the oldest remaining stone bridge that crosses the River Liffey.  Celbridge is also the birthplace of Arthur Guinness, founder of the Guinness Brewery family business. ",697410,733340,http://www.irishlandmark.com/,LT8,"Irish Landmark is a non-profit organisation that finds interesting and unusual properties that are in need of conservation, and we give them new life. Since 1992, we’ve been turning historic buildings into truly special self-catering holiday accommodation. Our properties range from lighthouses and schoolhouses, to castles and gate lodges. As an educational charity, our primary aim is to conserve and sustain iconic buildings. That’s why Irish Landmark properties are living buildings, not museum settings. Irish Landmark always respects the history and architectural integrity of the structures we conserve, but we also ensure they have all the contemporary comforts you want in a holiday home."
9,Clomanatagh Castle,Freshford,,Kilkenny,Tel: +353 1 670 4733  Fax: +353 1 670 4887  Email: bookings@irishlandmark.com,"Clomantagh Castle is part of a unique settlement of tower house, farmhouse and bawn.   The tower (1430s) and the farmhouse (early 1800s) are linked by doors allowing guests to wander freely between two periods of history. A mixture of simplicity and rustic charm, Clomantagh also features a Sheela-na-gig - a symbolic pagan nude carved on one of the stones. Of outstanding importance because of the collection of buildings spanning the period from the 12th - 18th Century, the complex at Clomantagh includes a 12th Century parish church, an early 15th Century tower house, an almost intact boundary or bawn wall with a medieval dovecote, and a 19th Century farmhouse. High on the tower house, above the roof of the farmhouse, there is evidence on an external wall, of an earlier attached structure. This is most likely the banqueting hall, which we know from contemporary descriptive accounts of Irish life was used for entertaining, the lord and his family only returning to the safety of the stone castle to sleep. On the site of this banqueting hall stands the Victorian farmhouse, which is a fine example of this building type retaining most of its original features, apart from the roofing material which was changed from thatch to slate   This house, which is linked to the castle on ground and first floor, was built about 1850 by the Shorthall family.  It has been restored and furnished to its Victorian origins, whilst the Tower keeps its medieval character.  The limewash on the outside of the house is slightly tinted by using fine particles of red sand. The castle kitchen and a bedroom are located in the tower house - a medieval turret stone staircase leads from the kitchen to the main bedroom. Clomantagh originally belonged to Pierce Ruadh, Earl of Ormond (died 1539) and his wife, Margaret Fitzgerald (Mairghréad nee Gearóid/Moll Gearailt).  It subsequently passed, with many other castles and lands, to his second son, Richard Butler, the first Viscount Mountgarret.  The 3rd Lord Mountgarret was President of the Confederation of Kilkenny, and forfeited the castle and a third of the townland under the Cromwellian regime to Lieutenant Arthur St.George, ancestor of the Kilrush family.  The Castle was also owned by the Shortalls of Ballylarkin, and latterly by Mr. Willie White, a vet in nearby Freshford. ",634760,663930,http://www.irishlandmark.com/,LT9,"Irish Landmark is a non-profit organisation that finds interesting and unusual properties that are in need of conservation, and we give them new life. Since 1992, we’ve been turning historic buildings into truly special self-catering holiday accommodation. Our properties range from lighthouses and schoolhouses, to castles and gate lodges. As an educational charity, our primary aim is to conserve and sustain iconic buildings. That’s why Irish Landmark properties are living buildings, not museum settings. Irish Landmark always respects the history and architectural integrity of the structures we conserve, but we also ensure they have all the contemporary comforts you want in a holiday home."
10,Drum Gate Lodge,Bushmills,,Antrim,Tel: +353 1 670 4733  Fax: +353 1 670 4887  Email: bookings@irishlandmark.com,"The Drum was built at the end of a long avenue of beech trees at the western edge of the Ballylough Estate in 1800, by Archdeacon Traill two years after he bought the estate. His family are still in residence. No records are yet available for the occupants of The Drum before 1898, when one Lizzie Taggart and her husband came to live there. Both of the Taggarts were employed on the estate, he as a farm labourer, and she as the 'hen girl' looking after the geese, ducks and hens. The Taggart family lived there until 1962, after which it remained vacant. Archdeacon Traill, whose family still own the estate, built the Drum Gatelodge (also known as Ballylough West Lodge) at the end of a long avenue of beech trees at the western entrance to the Ballylough Estate in 1800. The Lodge was tiny, with two rooms linked by a stone staircase. It was a dwelling with no running water, an outside two-holer and you pumped your own water from the well on the opposite side of the avenue. It was always lived in by estate workers, but there are no records of the occupants prior to 1898 when Lizzie Taggart and her husband came to live there. Both of the Taggarts were employed on the estate, he as a farm labourer, and she as the 'hen girl' looking after the geese, ducks and hens. Mr. Taggart died sometime between 1910-1920 leaving Lizzie with a family of two daughters, named Elizabeth and Martha, and a son called Joseph. Elizabeth married a Mr. Callaghan and went to live in nearby Castlecatt, where they had a family of four sons and a daughter. Martha moved to Cloughmills and married Mr. White, a farmer. Robbie (Robert), one of her children, was sent back to be reared by his grandmother at the lodge.  He was sent to the local school at Ballylough, became a bus driver, and lived at the lodge with his grandmother until her death in 1962.  Robbie then came to live in Bushmills, where he set up a small business in the Main Street, and died in his 70s. Lizzie's son, Joseph, joined the Army at the outbreak of the First World War served in France, and married on his return. He was employed by local farmers and latterly worked with a local coal delivery firm. Joseph had two children, Joseph and Margaret. Joseph (junior) worked locally in Coleraine until the outbreak of the World War Two when he joined the Army.  He was stationed in Scotland where he met and married a local girl. He is still living in Scotland after 63 years - he and his wife are now in their mid 80s. Margaret worked in local factories as a seamstress, married Edward Crawford and had a family of four. Lizzie Taggart herself was quite a character, Mrs. Shanks (who lived nearby as a child) has vivid recollections of her from as far back as the 1940's: "" My childhood was spent on a farm just along the road away from Bushmills, and I remember Mrs. Taggart and Robbie, her grandson, and their quaint home. We children spent the first few years of our school life (under the beady eye of Mrs Briggs!) at the wee two teacher school at Castlecatt. We had permission to take a short cut through the estate, and as we always walked to school, this saved some time and shoe leather. We passed right by the lodge twice a day and often saw and chatted to Mrs. Taggart. We knew that her name was Lizzie, but to us children, she was always Mrs. Taggart. We were in no hurry on that homeward journey - we'd dawdle among the trees, pick the odd wild flower or play tag around the trees near the Lodge. Mrs. Taggart might have been feeding hens or carrying in water from the well, as we passed. Although kindly, Mrs. Taggart was fairly outspoken, and voiced her opinion when the occasion demanded it. My brother James and I, being the youngest, usually walked home together, and we still laugh about the time when he left me behind among the trees while he ran off without me. I was crying, so I was escorted into the Lodge with soothing noises and some tit bit or other, and James was sent off with her opinions ringing in his ears and no goodies!"" Lizzie's tenancy was from 1898 to 1962, and reports of her housekeeping show the great changes in domestic habits throughout her married life, as well as resourcefulness in bringing up a family in such a small space. She cooked on an open peat fire with a crook and hooks and a griddle, and made soda bread and potato cakes daily. ""We used to watch her baking apple tarts - pastry rolled out on a wooden baking board with a shallow gallery around three sides, and a goose wing to brush up the surplus flour. The tart was put into a heavy iron pot and hooked over a fire glowing with embers. She'd use long black tongs to pile more embers on the lid. Sometimes if we looked in on our way home, she'd be baking soda bread, and we'd be offered some, hot from the griddle, with country butter that melted and ran through your fingers. Sometimes there was home made jam."" Life then was very different from now. Mrs Taggart had oil lamps and candles, and a flat iron with a hollow inside where you inserted a shaped heated stone and retained it by sliding down a little door at the back. Beside her fire on the hearth was a Gothic style window, and then a door opening onto spiral stone steps which followed the contour of the wall to where she and Robbie slept. The Lodge had a half leaf door - handy for leaning over - and the usual dresser with lots of plates and striped delph bowls. Mrs. Shanks recalls that ""occasionally when we called, the peddlers would be there, always the same two women - they walked the roads in all weathers. They were mother and daughter, one youngish, plump and smiling, the mother pale and frail looking (I remember them vividly) They'd set their big basket down and display their wares - pins, buttons, elastic, ribbons, and all kinds of haberdashery. After the business was transacted, there'd be big mugs of tea and bread and then they'd go to my mother who would buy what she wanted and give them what she had to spare - Changed times!"" While at the lodge, Lizzie also kept her own hens, two goats and a collie dog. She sold her eggs to the grocery van or cart, so paying for her own groceries. She was also responsible for opening and closing the back gates for tradesmen, and if she didn't like you, she just wouldn't open them - all in all quite a character. After Lizzie's death in 1962, the Lodge became vacant, and has remained unoccupied since.",694432,937865,http://www.irishlandmark.com/,LT10,"Irish Landmark is a non-profit organisation that finds interesting and unusual properties that are in need of conservation, and we give them new life. Since 1992, we’ve been turning historic buildings into truly special self-catering holiday accommodation. Our properties range from lighthouses and schoolhouses, to castles and gate lodges. As an educational charity, our primary aim is to conserve and sustain iconic buildings. That’s why Irish Landmark properties are living buildings, not museum settings. Irish Landmark always respects the history and architectural integrity of the structures we conserve, but we also ensure they have all the contemporary comforts you want in a holiday home."
11,Galley Head Lightkeeper's House 1,Clonakilty,,Cork,Tel: +353 1 670 4733  Fax: +353 1 670 4887  Email: bookings@irishlandmark.com,"The station was built in 1875, during the heyday of lighthouse building, and within twenty years of its closest neighbours at Old Head of Kinsale and Fastnet.  The lighthouse displays an unusual landward arc of light because, it is said, the Sultan of Turkey asked to be able to see it from nearby Castle Freke at Rosscarbery whle on a visit there.  The house at Castle Freke, abandoned in 1952, can now be seen from Galley as a gothic ruin. The two keepers' houses at Galley Head, were taken on by Irish Landmark in the final years of the 20th century.  Lightkeepers who lived here would have witnessed the tragic loss of the  Lusitania in 1915, and sighted a German ship carrying arms, in disguise as a Norwegian steam, being pursued up the St. George's Channel by British destroyers a year later.  It is also said that Ray Bradbury based his melancholy story ""The Fog Horn"" on a reported sighting of  a sea serpent at Galley in 1860. The station consists of a tower connected by a 38 metre corridor to the semi-detached, two-storey, dwelling, originally built for the principal and assistant keeper, a single-storey dwelling for the gas maker. The two houses have been restored to their original symmetrical layout and make an ideal retreat for a family break.",533895,531244,http://www.irishlandmark.com/,LT11,"Irish Landmark is a non-profit organisation that finds interesting and unusual properties that are in need of conservation, and we give them new life. Since 1992, we’ve been turning historic buildings into truly special self-catering holiday accommodation. Our properties range from lighthouses and schoolhouses, to castles and gate lodges. As an educational charity, our primary aim is to conserve and sustain iconic buildings. That’s why Irish Landmark properties are living buildings, not museum settings. Irish Landmark always respects the history and architectural integrity of the structures we conserve, but we also ensure they have all the contemporary comforts you want in a holiday home."
12,Galley Head Lightkeeper's House 2,Clonakilty,,Cork,Tel: +353 1 670 4733  Fax: +353 1 670 4887  Email: bookings@irishlandmark.com,"The station was built in 1875, during the heyday of lighthouse building, and within twenty years of its closest neighbours at Old Head of Kinsale and Fastnet.  The lighthouse displays an unusual landward arc of light because, it is said, the Sultan of Turkey asked to be able to see it from nearby Castle Freke at Rosscarbery whle on a visit there.  The house at Castle Freke, abandoned in 1952, can now be seen from Galley as a gothic ruin. The two keepers' houses at Galley Head, were taken on by Irish Landmark in the final years of the 20th century.  Lightkeepers who lived here would have witnessed the tragic loss of the  Lusitania in 1915, and sighted a German ship carrying arms, in disguise as a Norwegian steam, being pursued up the St. George's Channel by British destroyers a year later.  It is also said that Ray Bradbury based his melancholy story ""The Fog Horn"" on a reported sighting of  a sea serpent at Galley in 1860. The station consists of a tower connected by a 38 metre corridor to the semi-detached, two-storey, dwelling, originally built for the principal and assistant keeper, a single-storey dwelling for the gas maker. The two houses have been restored to their original symmetrical layout and make an ideal retreat for a family break.",533905,531247,http://www.irishlandmark.com/,LT12,"Irish Landmark is a non-profit organisation that finds interesting and unusual properties that are in need of conservation, and we give them new life. Since 1992, we’ve been turning historic buildings into truly special self-catering holiday accommodation. Our properties range from lighthouses and schoolhouses, to castles and gate lodges. As an educational charity, our primary aim is to conserve and sustain iconic buildings. That’s why Irish Landmark properties are living buildings, not museum settings. Irish Landmark always respects the history and architectural integrity of the structures we conserve, but we also ensure they have all the contemporary comforts you want in a holiday home."
13,Georgian Townhouse,25 Eustace Street,Temple Bar,Dublin 2,Tel: +353 1 670 4733  Fax: +353 1 670 4887  Email: bookings@irishlandmark.com,"Eustace Street has a rich and varied history, famous as much for its religious nature as for its bawdy houses and bars since the 17th century.  Both Quakers and Presbyterians have a presence in Eustace Street.  The Society of Friends Meeting House, almost directly opposite No.25, has served the Quaker population that settled in the Sycamore Street locality 200 years ago.  The old Presbyterian School (now the children's centre, 'The Ark') was established in 1715, and the church served one of the richest Presbyterian parishes in the city from 1685. On the façade of the Friends Meeting House is a plaque commemorating the first meeting at this house, which is presumed to be the site of the Eagle Tavern, of the United Irishmen, prior to the 1798 Rebellion. Eustace Street was at the centre of a vibrantly theatrical area, which included Crow Street Theatre, The Smock Alley Theatre and Aungier Street Theatre. No. 25 was built around 1720. Despite its potentially risqué past, it was, by 1830, the respectable home of J.D. Williams & Co., Woollen Merchants, and thereafter in 1841 the counting house of W.T. Meyler & Co. Merchants.  By 1845 Patrick Costelloe, Merchant Tailor, shared No. 25 with a junior solicitor called William Bloomfield, who continued to have premises here until 1890, 45 years later.  During his tenancy, Bloomfield cohabited with up to at least 8 other solicitors at any given time. Once of the solicitors who worked from No. 25 from 1876-1879 was Standish O'Grady, the man that Yeats dubbed 'the Father of the Irish Revival'.  Standish O'Grady began his magnum opus ""O'Grady's History of Ireland"" (1878-1880) while he was working here.",715544,734113,http://www.irishlandmark.com/,LT13,"Irish Landmark is a non-profit organisation that finds interesting and unusual properties that are in need of conservation, and we give them new life. Since 1992, we’ve been turning historic buildings into truly special self-catering holiday accommodation. Our properties range from lighthouses and schoolhouses, to castles and gate lodges. As an educational charity, our primary aim is to conserve and sustain iconic buildings. That’s why Irish Landmark properties are living buildings, not museum settings. Irish Landmark always respects the history and architectural integrity of the structures we conserve, but we also ensure they have all the contemporary comforts you want in a holiday home."
14,Helen's Tower,Bangor,,Down,Tel: +353 1 670 4733  Fax: +353 1 670 4887  Email: bookings@irishlandmark.com,"Helen's Tower perched high above the rolling hills of Co Down, is an enchanting three storey stone tower nestled deep in the woods of the Clandeboye Estate.  Standing on top of the world with panoramic views of the surrounding landscape, one can see as far as distant Scottish shores from the top of Helen's Tower. Built in 1848 by Frederick Lord Dufferin, 5th Baron of Dufferin and Ava in honour of his mother Helen Selina Blackwood, Helen's Tower has since been immortalized by Tennyson in the poem of the same name.  Designed by architect William Burn and constructed in 1848-1850 as a famine relief project, Helen's Tower helped relieve unemployment at this time. The tower has taken on an unforeseen poignancy, as an almost exact replica of it, the Ulster Tower, was built at Thiepval in 1921 to honour the men of the 36th (Ulster) Division who fell at the Battle of the Somme. Clandeboye Estate was used for army training during the First World War, and the 36th (Ulster) Division trained beside Helen's Tower before leaving for France. A Game Keepers Tower, the interiors and fittings of this building were unique to this period.  An octagonal room on the third floor with its paneling throughout with poems engraved on metal plates are set into the walls. Helen's Tower is equipped with 1 double bedroom, shower room, separate bathroom, kitchen, living room, dining room and rooftop reading room. Visitors to the area can enjoy walking routes, known locally as Cladeboye Way (Helen's Bay to Whitespots Country Park).  Other places of interest include Ava Gallery, Ireland Off Road Experience, Andrew Jackson Cottage and US Rangers and Clandeboye Estate. ",748882,877390,http://www.irishlandmark.com/,LT14,"Irish Landmark is a non-profit organisation that finds interesting and unusual properties that are in need of conservation, and we give them new life. Since 1992, we’ve been turning historic buildings into truly special self-catering holiday accommodation. Our properties range from lighthouses and schoolhouses, to castles and gate lodges. As an educational charity, our primary aim is to conserve and sustain iconic buildings. That’s why Irish Landmark properties are living buildings, not museum settings. Irish Landmark always respects the history and architectural integrity of the structures we conserve, but we also ensure they have all the contemporary comforts you want in a holiday home."
15,Inchiquin House,Corofin,,Clare,Tel: +353 1 670 4733  Fax: +353 1 670 4887  Email: bookings@irishlandmark.com,"The name Inchiquin comes from an island (Inis in Irish) of the O’Quin family, one of whom was killed at the battle of of Clontarf with Brian Boru in 1014.  The house itself is thought to have been built around 1800 (some say even earlier), and is marked as ‘Inchiquin Cottage’ in the first edition of the Ordnance Survey map of around 1840.  At that stage, the line of out-houses to the north of the house originally turned briefly southwards, but no trace of that remains overground.  The two story building on a raised platform overlooking the house was constructed as a granary (with outside stairs on the west wall).  The back part of the house, including the present kitchen and back bedrooms is a later addition, the date of which is unknown. The name of the builder of the original house is not recorded – but the Owens family were among the owners in the middle of the nineteen century, though the links with the famous Chevalier O’Gorman rest on shaky foundations.  Subsequently, Cahirs, Bloods, Markahans and McGann – some of which are still resident in the locality – were in possession until the house was bought around 1910 by Col. John Macnamara, who had come from having served as a doctor in the Indian Medical Corps and whose family were doctors in and for Corofin from 1836 to 2006.  He himself never lived in the house, renting it out in turn to his brother-in-law, Walter Perman (an Englishman whose car was taken by the IRA during the Civil War and who returned to his native country because he feared for his life was in dangere) and Turlough O’Bryen, who was a famous bee-keeper and cycled around Ireland teaching people about bees, and kept hives in the field in front of the house. After the setting up of the State in 1922, the Land Comission set to work to divide up the larger country estates in order to give holdings to poorer farmers.  Col. John Macnamara holding reached down to the lake, but all his land between lake and road were taken away, as was land to the village side of the property in return for Land Bonds which turned out to have little or no value.  What was left was about 40 acres of arable land and 65 of scrub and woodland which still belongs to the hose, now reachable by an avenue about half a mile long. When Col. Macnamara died in 1932 he left the house and remaining land to his wife of twelve years, Gertrude Macnamara (neé McDermot) whose father had been a doctor in County Roscommon.  She continued to farm (partially with the help of her nephew Desmond McSherry, whose name is fondly remembered in the area) and on her death in 1967, she bequeathed it to her niece (Desmond’s sister) Sheelagh, who had been as good as a daughter to the childless couple.  Sheelagh was married to James Austin Harbison, Medical Officor at first of Co Kildare, then for County Dublin and finally for Dublin City.  He died a year after Gertrude Macnamara.  His wife Sheelagh Harbison owned the house until her death in 2012 at the great age of 98.  Austin and Sheelagh’s sons are Dr. John Harbison, formerly the State Pathologist (1974-2002) and Dr. Peter Harbison, archeologist and art-historian.  Peter is now the owner and his sons John, Maurice and Ronan have taken responsibility for Inchiquin’s future. ",528374,690511,http://www.irishlandmark.com/,LT15,"Irish Landmark is a non-profit organisation that finds interesting and unusual properties that are in need of conservation, and we give them new life. Since 1992, we’ve been turning historic buildings into truly special self-catering holiday accommodation. Our properties range from lighthouses and schoolhouses, to castles and gate lodges. As an educational charity, our primary aim is to conserve and sustain iconic buildings. That’s why Irish Landmark properties are living buildings, not museum settings. Irish Landmark always respects the history and architectural integrity of the structures we conserve, but we also ensure they have all the contemporary comforts you want in a holiday home."
16,"Kiln Wing, Old Corn Mill",Bushmills,,Antrim,Tel: +353 1 670 4733  Fax: +353 1 670 4887  Email: bookings@irishlandmark.com,"For almost 400 years the water from the Bush River has been used by the world’s oldest licensed distillery for its distinctive whiskey, Old Bushmills.  Until 1949 it also provided the electricity to power the tramway which took generations of tourists along the spectacular Antrim coastline to marvel at the Giant’s Causeway. But the river has had another important function in the history of the village of Bushmills.   It falls some 18 metres in its descent through the village and in the last century provided water power for several mills. Palmer’s Corn Mill looked like a hopeless case when Sam Huey and his American wife, Jan, first saw it in 1986.   Gaping holes in the roof, crumbling walls and nesting birds would have deterred most, but Sam Huey had a soft spot for the area – his father was born in the nearby village of Dervock  - and he was prepared to rise to the challenge of transforming the mill into a home.  He was also prepared to devote the considerable amount of time and money he knew the project would require. Built in the 1830s, the corn mill was listed in 1977 by Historic Monument and Buildings (HMB) of the Environment Service in Northern Ireland, because of the Bush River’s significance in the evolution of power wheels and because it formed an integral part of the village.   The mill’s status as a B1 listed building meant that Sam Huey could benefit from advice from the HMB architects as well as some grant aid. In return, Sam proved just how successfully a building such as this can be re-used as a home and that, even in a mill, it is possible to strike a happy balance between conversion and restoration. The fact that so many of the original elements – including the machine components – have been retained, is central to this success.   The cogs and wheels are still at the core of the building, and glimpses of its former life have been left exposed in nooks and crannies all over the house. That Sam Huey personally supervised the transformation of the 740 sq.metres buiding is clear in the attention to detail.  As a retired engineer, he says that the project has given him an enormous respect for the engineers and builders of the past. Original door heights have been maintained, even though Sam Huey is a tall man and has had to resort to pinning ribbons to the door frames to remind himself and others to duck. Having spent many years living in California, Sam Huey was at first surprised by the draw Northern Ireland (from which he had emigrated many many years ago) had for him when he retired.   His love of the local heritage is clear in his choice of vernacular furniture and ornaments - farm implements, framed 19th century documents about salmon fishing (for which the Bush is famous), Old Bushmills bottles from yesteryear and black and white postcards of the long established tourist attractions in the area. In the basement bedroom one of the original bench seats from the Giant’s Causeway tramline, opened in 1887, sits against the cogs and wheels of the mill.  Sam Huey has happy memories of travelling on the tram as a child. The results of his passion for recycling are everywhere:  the tiles in the kitchen were made in Scotland over a century ago and rescued from a house in Portrush; the timber flooring and the huge beams which support the roof were salvaged from quay side warehouses in Derry;  you can still see the marks where oysters once clung to the posts which were sunk into the Foyle; and the simple blue lamp shades throughout the house were plucked from a skip. The overall effect is one of a warm home, full of character and integrity.",694017,940606,http://www.irishlandmark.com/,LT16,"Irish Landmark is a non-profit organisation that finds interesting and unusual properties that are in need of conservation, and we give them new life. Since 1992, we’ve been turning historic buildings into truly special self-catering holiday accommodation. Our properties range from lighthouses and schoolhouses, to castles and gate lodges. As an educational charity, our primary aim is to conserve and sustain iconic buildings. That’s why Irish Landmark properties are living buildings, not museum settings. Irish Landmark always respects the history and architectural integrity of the structures we conserve, but we also ensure they have all the contemporary comforts you want in a holiday home."
17,Knocknalosset,Canningstown,Bailieborough,Cavan,Tel: +353 1 670 4733  Fax: +353 1 670 4887  Email: bookings@irishlandmark.com,"Knocknalosset is an endearing two-storey farmhouse in roughcast with a hipped roof.  Something of a split personality.   The N front, set in a narrow yard facing a long lofted barn, is simple, with four bays and a small gabled porch on the ground floor;  three bays above.  Here the windows are all sill-less, mostly with miniature Georgian sashes.  A contrast with the more formal S front, which was refenestrated in the late Georgian period:  also of three bays, with with enlarged openings, with tripartite sash windows on sandstone sills.  Entrance in an off-centre gabled windbreak. The authentic limewashed interior is a very rare survivor, with low-ceiling rooms and good 19th century paneled doors and shutters.   Interesting plan, with five rooms on the ground floor around a long hall with narrow stairs placed across the kitchen at the centre;  here a generous arch over the hearth and, piercing the stair wall, the obligatory squint as a window on passing life.  Georgian maps show the existence of a house here before 1775, when the lands formed part of the Greville estates.",664690,807040,http://www.irishlandmark.com/,LT17,"Irish Landmark is a non-profit organisation that finds interesting and unusual properties that are in need of conservation, and we give them new life. Since 1992, we’ve been turning historic buildings into truly special self-catering holiday accommodation. Our properties range from lighthouses and schoolhouses, to castles and gate lodges. As an educational charity, our primary aim is to conserve and sustain iconic buildings. That’s why Irish Landmark properties are living buildings, not museum settings. Irish Landmark always respects the history and architectural integrity of the structures we conserve, but we also ensure they have all the contemporary comforts you want in a holiday home."
18,Loop Head Lightkeeper's House,Kilbaha,,Clare,Tel: +353 1 670 4733  Fax: +353 1 670 4887  Email: bookings@irishlandmark.com,"Loop Head Lighthouse station is the major landmark on the northern shore of the Shannon River.  The surrounding coastline is of a dramatic character with cliffs sculpted by Atlantic storms where rock ledges and caves are home to seabirds, seals and other maritime animals. The lighthouse complex is built on a clifftop with 300o views of the sea, down to Kerry Head and Dingle, across the Shannon, and up the Clare coast to the Cliffs of Moher to the north. There has been a lighthouse at this important navigational location since approximately 1670.  The first beacon comprised of a cottage in which the Keeper and his family lived, with a large brazier on the roof, similar in style to the original Howth Head and Old Head of Kinsale lights.  Traces of this building still exist in the present day complex.  Predictably the light was not reliable and in this remote location, difficult to manage, and it fell into disrepair. A new light was re-established in 1770 and then the present tower was designed by George Halpin in 1854.  The distinctive character of the light - 20 seconds of light followed by 4 of dark - was achieved by rotating a screen around the lamp.   This operation was originally manually ""wound up"" and not replaced by electric until 1971.  The station was fully automated in the early 1990s.",469000,647250,http://www.irishlandmark.com/,LT18,"Irish Landmark is a non-profit organisation that finds interesting and unusual properties that are in need of conservation, and we give them new life. Since 1992, we’ve been turning historic buildings into truly special self-catering holiday accommodation. Our properties range from lighthouses and schoolhouses, to castles and gate lodges. As an educational charity, our primary aim is to conserve and sustain iconic buildings. That’s why Irish Landmark properties are living buildings, not museum settings. Irish Landmark always respects the history and architectural integrity of the structures we conserve, but we also ensure they have all the contemporary comforts you want in a holiday home."
19,Magherintemple Lodge,Ballycastle,,Antrim,Tel: +353 1 670 4733  Fax: +353 1 670 4887  Email: bookings@irishlandmark.com,"This is a beautiful gatelodge situated just outside the town of Ballycastle. Magherintemple Lodge was built in the Scottish Baronial style in 1874, possibly by the architect S P Close.  At the same time as the lodge was constructed, an extension was  added to the main house also in the same style. The family believes that the main house was designed by John Lanyon but no definite evidence for the name of the architect survives. The original Georgian House was relatively modest but contained good reeded ornamentation with the Victorian addition containing much fancy pine detailing. It was John Casement, the father of Sir Roger, who built on the Victorian wing, adding a date stone and his initials over the drawing room window.  The Scottish Baronial style he chose was very plain.  However, the stepped gables, finials and chimney stacks break up the austerity of the building.  This Victorian addition considerably improved the value of the estate. We know that in 1834, the house was valued at only £11.15.0 and between 1851 and 1879, the house and outbuildings were valued at £25.  In 1878 it was shown as ""rebuilding"", and in the following year the valuation had shot up to £60. John Casement inscribed over the front door of his home, ""In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths"" and later in his life decided to take the pledge.  Many of the next generation of the Casement family took to seafaring while the fate of another member of the family, Sir Roger Casement, is well known.",714670,938816,http://www.irishlandmark.com/,LT19,"Irish Landmark is a non-profit organisation that finds interesting and unusual properties that are in need of conservation, and we give them new life. Since 1992, we’ve been turning historic buildings into truly special self-catering holiday accommodation. Our properties range from lighthouses and schoolhouses, to castles and gate lodges. As an educational charity, our primary aim is to conserve and sustain iconic buildings. That’s why Irish Landmark properties are living buildings, not museum settings. Irish Landmark always respects the history and architectural integrity of the structures we conserve, but we also ensure they have all the contemporary comforts you want in a holiday home."
20,Merrion Mews,Off Merrion Square,,Dublin 2,Tel: +353 1 670 4733  Fax: +353 1 670 4887  Email: bookings@irishlandmark.com,"The mews building at the rear of No.63 Merrion Square is an integral part of one of the most significant survivals of an 18th century Dublin townhouse  - comprising main house with garden, mews and stables with its own small garden - within the classic Fitzwilliam/Merrion Square area of Dublin. Situated on Fizwilliam Lane the Mews is a quaint and charming property. Built in 1792/93 the house retains much of its historic character and fabric. The garden is one of the few surviving gardens in Merrion Square and most certainly the only remaining garden retaining a 19th century design and layout. The Mews also has a private garden, coach yard coach house and stables. The stables have been conserved, and given a new life as a place to rest and water the horses of the Mounted Unit of An Garda Siochana while they are on duty in the city centre.",716560,733385,http://www.irishlandmark.com/,LT20,"Irish Landmark is a non-profit organisation that finds interesting and unusual properties that are in need of conservation, and we give them new life. Since 1992, we’ve been turning historic buildings into truly special self-catering holiday accommodation. Our properties range from lighthouses and schoolhouses, to castles and gate lodges. As an educational charity, our primary aim is to conserve and sustain iconic buildings. That’s why Irish Landmark properties are living buildings, not museum settings. Irish Landmark always respects the history and architectural integrity of the structures we conserve, but we also ensure they have all the contemporary comforts you want in a holiday home."
21,Salterbridge Gatelodge,Cappoquin,,Waterford,Tel: +353 1 670 4733  Fax: +353 1 670 4887  Email: bookings@irishlandmark.com,"Salterbridge is a classically proportioned pavilion gatelodge, which was built c.1849 by the Chearnly family, who owned the estate from the mid 18th Century until the 1950s. The lodge, though obviously in habitation in the 1930s when the Glanville family lived there, was derelict by the 1950s.    Its function, like all gatelodges, was to indicate to the passer-by the good standing and taste of the original owner, and to display some of the features of the architect's work, re-interpreted from the big house.",609394,599945,http://www.irishlandmark.com/,LT21,"Irish Landmark is a non-profit organisation that finds interesting and unusual properties that are in need of conservation, and we give them new life. Since 1992, we’ve been turning historic buildings into truly special self-catering holiday accommodation. Our properties range from lighthouses and schoolhouses, to castles and gate lodges. As an educational charity, our primary aim is to conserve and sustain iconic buildings. That’s why Irish Landmark properties are living buildings, not museum settings. Irish Landmark always respects the history and architectural integrity of the structures we conserve, but we also ensure they have all the contemporary comforts you want in a holiday home."
22,Schoolhouse at Annaghmore,Annaghmore,Collooney,Sligo,Tel: +353 1 670 4733  Fax: +353 1 670 4887  Email: bookings@irishlandmark.com,"Built in the 1860s, The Schoolhouse, Annaghmore is an attractive rural building picturesquely located by the Owenmore River and surrounded by mature woodland. The building retains many original decorative features including ornamental wooden bargeboards and lattice windows surmounted by wooden hood mouldings. The most striking feature is the projecting oriel window on the upper east gable.The L-shaped one and a half storey building originally comprised of a two-storey accommodation area (the schoolmaster's residence) and a double height schoolroom. Some 19th Century schoolhouse furnishings still survive including the schoolhouse fireplace, coat hooks and chalkboards. This charming rural schoolhouse on the Annaghmore Estate which has been owned by the O'Hara family for several centuries, features distinctively Tudor Revival decorative elements. Built in the 1860s  as a school for the  estate  tenants' children, it  is  an attractive  rural  building  picturesquely  located on the banks of the Owenmore river  and  surrounded by  mature  woodland. There is local folklore surrounding the last tenant of the schoolhouse. Hughie Savage was a bachelor who farmed on the other side of the Owenmore river and kept cattle in the mountains.  He lived at Annaghmore without electricity or running water and did not have a bank account.  He kept all his money in a tin box which legend says is still buried somewhere at Annaghmore since it has never been found!",564252,822674,http://www.irishlandmark.com/,LT22,"Irish Landmark is a non-profit organisation that finds interesting and unusual properties that are in need of conservation, and we give them new life. Since 1992, we’ve been turning historic buildings into truly special self-catering holiday accommodation. Our properties range from lighthouses and schoolhouses, to castles and gate lodges. As an educational charity, our primary aim is to conserve and sustain iconic buildings. That’s why Irish Landmark properties are living buildings, not museum settings. Irish Landmark always respects the history and architectural integrity of the structures we conserve, but we also ensure they have all the contemporary comforts you want in a holiday home."
23,Termon House,Dungloe,,Donegal,Tel: +353 1 670 4733  Fax: +353 1 670 4887  Email: bookings@irishlandmark.com,"Termon House was built by the Marquis Conyngham in the 1770s for his agent, but archaeological remains in the immediate surroundings (an old lime kiln and the remains of a clachan) indicate a much older occupancy. The house has a stormy history. Local anecdotes and archaeological evidence present a picture of absenteeism, land clearance, and emigration. A beautiful and unique defensive Famine Wall still surrounds the house. The wall, a unique vernacular structure, was built around the house as the final public works project designed to alleviate suffering during the famine in 1847. The Story of Termon House Termon House is an 18th century house built, it is understood, by Marquis Conyngham or his predecessor, Montgomery, for his land agent, whose duty it was to collect rent from the local tenants on behalf of the absentee landlord. There is some confusion over the occupancy of Termon before and during the time of the Famine.  The land around the house seems to have belonged to the Church of Ireland.  The Reverand James Crawford lived at the Rectory in Maghery, recognisable today in the centre of the village, for three years until his death in 1779.  He was buried in the church at Templecrone (Saint Crona's Monastery) which is visible across the field to the front of Termon House.  The Reverend Thomas Steward lived in Maghery until 1803 when Reverend Alexander Montgomery replaced him. Reverend Valentine Griffith, the Rector at the height of the famine years, 1845-1850, was one of the leading members of the Famine Relief Committee.  As a means of feeding the famine-stricken local population, he used an initiative whereby the government offered half a stone of meal and a shilling per person a week to build 'the famine walls' which surrounded the Church of Ireland land around the house. There is a mass famine grave outside the ruined Protestant graveyard across the fields from Termon.  It was here that the Catholics who were left at Griffith's doorstep during the famine are buried. It may be that the 2nd Marquis of Conyngham's agent, Robert Russell, lived either at Termon or at Lackbeg House from 1833 to 1847.  He was notoriously ruthless from the first potato harvest failure in 1845 thorughout the famine years when others, such as the clergy, doctor and other agents, were active with groups such as the Quakers on Relief Committees. In the late 19th century Mr. James O'Donnell bought the house and land.  He and his family lived there for many years.  During that time he sold much of his land to different families who built their own houses in Termon over the century.  James O'Donnell died in the 1920s, and his family sold the property to a Mr. Gallagher (a native of Maghery who had returned to Dungloe after many years in America). The ownership of the house changed again in the 1970s, and then the surrounding land was bought by a Mr. Doherty, who to this day uses the land for cattle grazing and the barns for storage of hay, etc.",571114,909804,http://www.irishlandmark.com/,LT23,"Irish Landmark is a non-profit organisation that finds interesting and unusual properties that are in need of conservation, and we give them new life. Since 1992, we’ve been turning historic buildings into truly special self-catering holiday accommodation. Our properties range from lighthouses and schoolhouses, to castles and gate lodges. As an educational charity, our primary aim is to conserve and sustain iconic buildings. That’s why Irish Landmark properties are living buildings, not museum settings. Irish Landmark always respects the history and architectural integrity of the structures we conserve, but we also ensure they have all the contemporary comforts you want in a holiday home."
24,Triumphal Arch Lodge,Colebrook,,Fermanagh,Tel: +353 1 670 4733  Fax: +353 1 670 4887  Email: bookings@irishlandmark.com,"The Triumphal Arch Gatelodge is a Grade B Listed Building and is part of the Colebrooke Estate.  The estate has a long history dating back to the 1640s when a large portion of confiscated land at Brookeborough was given to the Brooke family as a reward for services during the 1641 rebellion.  The estate has remained in the Brooke family ever since and has been home to many notable military and public figures including Field Marshal Viscount Alan Brooke and Northern Ireland Prime Minister Basil Brooke, 1943 -1963. In 1786 the post Chaise Companion described Colebrooke as ""a very fine and delightful seat"" but Sir Henry Brooke had grand plans for this wooded demesne and from 1819 the eminent Dublin architect William Farrell was commissioned to redesign the main house, park and estate buildings including two gatelodges one with an ambitious entrance arch. The gatelodge and Triumphal Arch entrance were designed to complement the great house beyond and make an impressive approach to the estate, while at the same time showing the taste of the Brookes and acting as an introduction to the grandeur that was to come.",641138,844827,http://www.irishlandmark.com/,LT24,"Irish Landmark is a non-profit organisation that finds interesting and unusual properties that are in need of conservation, and we give them new life. Since 1992, we’ve been turning historic buildings into truly special self-catering holiday accommodation. Our properties range from lighthouses and schoolhouses, to castles and gate lodges. As an educational charity, our primary aim is to conserve and sustain iconic buildings. That’s why Irish Landmark properties are living buildings, not museum settings. Irish Landmark always respects the history and architectural integrity of the structures we conserve, but we also ensure they have all the contemporary comforts you want in a holiday home."
25,Tullymurry House,Donaghmore,Banbridge,Down,Tel: +353 1 670 4733  Fax: +353 1 670 4887  Email: bookings@irishlandmark.com,"Old maps of County Down show Tullymurry Cottage, the forerunner of the existing house. The cottage which still exists today was probably built in the early 17th century and was the precursor of an extension built ca. 1700 which comprises the present day kitchen area and bathroom end of the house. In Georgian times - ca 1780 - the Weir family built on the imposing front section and resided at the house until 1828. In this year John Marshall, a member of a wealthy local family, purchased the house and married Charlotte Weir. The Marshall family were extensive landowners and owned much of the Tullymurry townland; they were also responsible during their residency for establishing the beautiful parkland in front of the house. Marshall family misfortune led to an insolvency situation in 1895 out of which Joseph McMinn of Castle Ennigan was able to purchase the house and part of the Tullymurry farm. The McMinn family were a frugal, hard working farming family in the last century but did much to ensure that the fabric of the house was properly maintained. The house and yard complex are now owned by the fourth generation of the McMinn family since 1895. 2012 witnessed the very extensive refurbishment of the house and part of the large farmyard and its migration from a farming establishment to holiday accommodation now run by The Irish Landmark Trust. None of the unique character nor atmosphere of the beautiful dwelling house has been lost during the transition process. 2013:  Alongside four larger construction companies all involved in significant town hall and civic centre projects across Northern Ireland, we were delighted that Messrs John McAleenan and Co, the builders entrusted with last year's extensive restoration of Tullymurry House, were also shortlisted for Northern Ireland's CEF Contruction Employers Federation's ""Best Restoration' excellence award 2013. Tullymurry was the only residential property to reach the final. Winners were Messrs H & J Martin for their involvement in the prestigious Derry Guildhall phase 2 project; the Guildhall is a key arrival and welcome hub; indeed, centre piece to Derry, 2013 European City of Culture. So we were in very elevated company and exceptionally pleased to have been singled out for the final. The CEF jurors were particularly attracted to the fine detail and original methods of construction employed at Tullymurry to ensure that none of the unique character nor atmosphere of the beautiful old dwelling house were lost during the successful restoration process.",710903,834319,http://www.irishlandmark.com/,LT25,"Irish Landmark is a non-profit organisation that finds interesting and unusual properties that are in need of conservation, and we give them new life. Since 1992, we’ve been turning historic buildings into truly special self-catering holiday accommodation. Our properties range from lighthouses and schoolhouses, to castles and gate lodges. As an educational charity, our primary aim is to conserve and sustain iconic buildings. That’s why Irish Landmark properties are living buildings, not museum settings. Irish Landmark always respects the history and architectural integrity of the structures we conserve, but we also ensure they have all the contemporary comforts you want in a holiday home."
26,Wicklow Head Lighthouse,Dunbur Head,,Wicklow,Tel: +353 1 670 4733  Fax: +353 1 670 4887  Email: bookings@irishlandmark.com,"The restoration of Wicklow Head Lighthouse was one of the last projects of the architect, Maura Shaffrey.  The philosophy behind the brief and that of The Irish Landmark Trust, echoed one which Maura had promoted and practised throughout her career, and long before it had become popular or accepted in this country.  This philosophy acknowledged the intrinsic value of our architectural heritage, including its historic and social aspects, but, above all, the particular quality of fabric, form and scale which imbues its aesthetic worth.  It sought to retain these qualities and weave new uses into existing buildings without diluting their essence.  It was not a rigid doctrine which aimed to preserve all in aspic, nor was it one which bowed to the kitsch or the pastiche.  It embraced the demands to incorporate modern facilities sympathetically and took them on board as a challenge in proving the economic viability and future sustainability of retaining and reviving existing buildings. However, Maura's approach was equally strict on issues such as materials and finishes, insisting that only compatible materials should be used.  Behind this 'rule' was a depth of knowledge and passion.  Maura's last article, before her untimely death, examined the future of the vernacular house and set out a practical and benign approach to 'upgrading', incorporating extensions, etc., as necessary. The Irish Landmark Trust acquired Wicklow Lighthouse in 1996, and set about conserving the tower.  This involved re-plastering the internal and external walls, making and fitting 27 windows, wiring, plumbing, flooring and installing a water pumping system.  When the stairs and timber floors were in situ, a series of 6 octagonal rooms were arranged vertically.  Although the rooms are small, they have high arched windows set into walls which are almost a metre thick. All the windows were newly made in accordance with traditional joinery practices.  Double-glazing was used to counteract the high winds and exposed location of the lighthouse.  Blinds for the windows had to be fitted, as it was required that they should be closed at night lest the lights from the lighthouse confuse ships around the headland.  The arched head on the windows meant that special blinds were needed.  These were handmade from various coloured sail fabric and attached to the windows with brass fittings.  Because the blinds are flush to the windows, it means that the window alcove becomes a useable space, even at night when the blinds are closed. All the walls were painted white, and this gives the building an almost contemporary feel.  It was decided to furnish the lighthouse in a minimalist fashion.  This was further consolidated by the fact that all of the furniture had to be either built in-situ, or else dismantled to bring it up the winding 109 steps to the top. Because no one had ever lived in the lighthouse, there was no evidence as to how it might have been furnished.  Therefore, the furniture selected is, in general, quite simple with a nautical theme.   The mosaic tiles on the bathroom floor were influenced by similar samples found in other lighthouses.",734178,692370,http://www.irishlandmark.com/,LT26,"Irish Landmark is a non-profit organisation that finds interesting and unusual properties that are in need of conservation, and we give them new life. Since 1992, we’ve been turning historic buildings into truly special self-catering holiday accommodation. Our properties range from lighthouses and schoolhouses, to castles and gate lodges. As an educational charity, our primary aim is to conserve and sustain iconic buildings. That’s why Irish Landmark properties are living buildings, not museum settings. Irish Landmark always respects the history and architectural integrity of the structures we conserve, but we also ensure they have all the contemporary comforts you want in a holiday home."
27,St Johns Point Lighthouse,Dunkineely,,Donegal,Tel: +353 1 670 4733  Fax: +353 1 670 4887  Email: bookings@irishlandmark.com,"This is a harbour light to guide from Donegal Bay and to mark the north side of the bay leading to Killybegs Harbour from the entrance up to Rotten Island. The Corporation for Preserving and Improving the Port of Dublin (the Ballast Board) received a memorial on 24 February 1825 signed by merchants and traders of Killybegs requesting a light on St John's Point. This was not approved until April 1829, and Trinity House gave their statutory sanction the following month. The tower, built of cut granite, was designed by the Board's Inspector of Works and Inspector of Lighthouses, George Halpin, and erected by the Board's workmen under Halpin's supervision. The tower, painted white, had a first order catoptric fixed light 98 feet above high water with a visibility in clear weather of 14 miles. The light was first exhibited on 4 November 1831 with the buildings in an uncompleted state. The final cost at the end of 1833 was £10,507.8.5. This set up lasted just over 100 years when the catoptric fixed light was changed to a first order cylindric refractor, occulting 4 seconds light, 2 seconds dark using acetylene generated from carbide instead of oil. The station was also converted to automatic unwatched operation from 30 November 1932. On 1 July 1942 the light was changed from occulting to a flash of 2 seconds every 6 seconds. During 1962 the light was converted to electric using ESB utility mains with a diesel generator standby. The actual changeover was 24 September. If both electric sources fail the Attendant fits an acetylene burner in place of the electric lamps and connects the burner to two dissolved acetylene cylinders. The duration of the flash was reduced from 2 seconds to 1.5 seconds on 1 February 1965.",570300,869050,http://www.irishlandmark.com/,LT27,"Irish Landmark is a non-profit organisation that finds interesting and unusual properties that are in need of conservation, and we give them new life. Since 1992, we’ve been turning historic buildings into truly special self-catering holiday accommodation. Our properties range from lighthouses and schoolhouses, to castles and gate lodges. As an educational charity, our primary aim is to conserve and sustain iconic buildings. That’s why Irish Landmark properties are living buildings, not museum settings. Irish Landmark always respects the history and architectural integrity of the structures we conserve, but we also ensure they have all the contemporary comforts you want in a holiday home."
28,St Johns Point Lighthouse,Killough,,Down,Tel: +353 1 670 4733  Fax: +353 1 670 4887  Email: bookings@irishlandmark.com,"A lighthouse at St John's Point, co Down was approved by the Corporation for Preserving and Improving the Port of Dublin (the Ballast Board) in 1839. Capt. P. R. Browne, a local landlord, was the building contractor and the foundation stone was laid by the Marquis of Downshire. It appears that work progressed rapidly but there was a delay in commissioning the light. The original station layout consisted of a 45 foot high tower, painted white, and two dwellings designed by George Halpin, the Ballast Board's Inspector of Works and Inspector of Lighthouses. A rock-cut boat landing place was provided to the south-east. The light was first established on 1st May 1844, with an occulting character (45 seconds illuminated, 15 seconds dark) 18.9 m (62 feet) above high water, and a range of 12 miles. The light was changed from white to red on 1st July 1860. From 27th May 1875 the light source was converted from oil to coal gas supplied from a gas plant, complete with two gasometers, tank and coal storage, at the station. As a result of a recommendation to improve the marking of the Co Down coast, the height of the tower was increased to 102 feet, on top of which the present diamond pane lantern was erected, raising the height of the light to 36.5m (120 feet) above high water. In addition a fog signal and an auxiliary light over Dundrum Bay were established from 1st July 1893. The auxiliary light was established in one of the third floor windows of the tower showing a fixed (non-flashing) light, white from 064° to 084° and red from 084° to land. The siren fog signal had a character of 2 blasts every 60 seconds (2.5 seconds blast, 5 seconds silence, 2.5 seconds blast, 50 seconds silence = 60 seconds). These improvements necessitated building an engine house for the fog signal, and two extra dwellings to accommodate the increase in station personnel. This work was supervised by the Board's Engineer, Wm. Douglass. In 1902 the colour of the tower was changed by adding three black bands. In 1908 the main light was further improved by the installation of the present bi-form 920mm annular lens. The gas jet burners were replaced with incandescent vaporised paraffin burners. The colour of the light was changed from red to white, with a character of two flashes every 7.5 seconds. The Board's Engineer at this period was C.W. Scott. The auxiliary light was converted to paraffin vapour burner on 18th October 1910. The colour of the tower was changed again in 1954, this time to black with two yellow bands. The dwellings were renovated at this time also. When domestic electricity was supplied to the Keepers' dwellings it was decided to convert the auxiliary light to electric and, at the same time on 5th September 1957, the 084° bearing was altered to 078°. On 18th February 1981 the main light was converted to electric and an electric horn fog signal replaced the siren. The characters of both the light and fog signal remained the same. On 11 January 2011 the fog signal was permanently disestablished. The light continues to be exhibited in poor visibility during daylight hours. The lighthouse was automated and the Keepers withdrawn on 31st May 1981. A part-time Attendant was appointed and took charge of the station. From 27 January 1982 the character of the auxiliary light was changed from fixed to Flashing White and Red every 3 seconds (one second flash and two seconds dark).",752660,833310,http://www.irishlandmark.com/,LT28,"Irish Landmark is a non-profit organisation that finds interesting and unusual properties that are in need of conservation, and we give them new life. Since 1992, we’ve been turning historic buildings into truly special self-catering holiday accommodation. Our properties range from lighthouses and schoolhouses, to castles and gate lodges. As an educational charity, our primary aim is to conserve and sustain iconic buildings. That’s why Irish Landmark properties are living buildings, not museum settings. Irish Landmark always respects the history and architectural integrity of the structures we conserve, but we also ensure they have all the contemporary comforts you want in a holiday home."