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Bantry House. / 51.677; -9.465. Bantry House is a historic house with gardens in Bantry, County Cork, Ireland. Originally built in the early 18th century, it has been owned and occupied by the White family (formerly Earls of Bantry) since the mid-18th century. Opened to the public since the 1940s, the house, estate and gardens are a tourist ...
Bantry.ie. Bantry ( Irish: Beanntraí, meaning ' (place of) Beann's people') is a town in the civil parish of Kilmocomoge in the barony of Bantry on the southwest coast of County Cork, Ireland. It lies in West Cork at the head of Bantry Bay, a deep-water gulf extending for 30 km (19 mi) to the west. The Beara Peninsula is to the northwest, with ...
Bantry House is a historic house in Bantry, County Cork, Ireland constructed in about 1700. The house has been in the Shelswell-White family for over 300 years. Egerton and Brigitte Shelswell-White came to live here more than 30 years ago. Turning the semi-derelict Bantry into a family home and a viable business has been their life's work.
This is a sortable table of the townlands in the barony of Bantry, County Cork, Ireland. [1] [2] Duplicate names occur where there is more than one townland with the same name in the barony, and also where a townland is known by two alternative names.
Newhall House and Estate. / 52.808859; -9.011908. Newhall is an Irish country estate near Ennis in County Clare, which includes a 17-bedroom 17th-century Georgian country house. The estate, held by successive members of the gentry, contains a holy well, and has an associated legend concerning a mermaid. [ 2]
This is an incomplete index of the current and historical principal family seats of clans, peers and landed gentry families in Ireland. Most of the houses belonged to the Old English and Anglo-Irish aristocracy, and many of those located in the present Republic of Ireland were abandoned, sold or destroyed following the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War of the early 1920s.
Adrigole, Bantry, Ballylickey, Castletownbere, Glengarriff. Bantry Bay ( Irish: Bá Bheanntraí) [1] is a bay located in County Cork, Ireland. The bay runs approximately 35 km (22 mi) from northeast to southwest into the Atlantic Ocean. It is approximately 3-to-4 km (1.8-to-2.5 miles) wide at the head and 10 km (6.2 mi) wide at the entrance.
Abbey, Ard na mBrathar ('monks' height). Burial ground, friary iron working site. Ahil Beg and More, Athchoill (regrown wood). Standing stone. Ardaturrish Beg and More, Ard na dTuras (height of the pilgrimage). Burial ground coastal promontory fort. Ardnageehy Beg and More, Ard na Gaoithe (windy height).