homes historical galway

An 1819 house replacing an earlier house, it is built around the original central courtyard. It is now owned by a religious order....

The home of the famed astronomer and poet, John Birmingham, who died in the 1870's. He erected a splendid observatory at Millbrook and had the third largest telescope in Ireland....

During the 19th century this fine house with a sweeping panorama of Kinvara Bay acquired a reputation for smuggling into the country contraband wine and tobacco, among other items.

There is supposed to be a cave leading from the shore into the cellars of the house, but a diligent search has failed to uncover the reputed passage. The house is now privately owned....

Near Loughrea 4 miles west north west just off the Craughwell road, is the entrance to St Clerans, a Georgian mansion, in which the film producer, John Huston lived.
,br> Here, in 1820, was born Robert O' Hara Burke, the explorer who was the first to cross Australia from south to north. He perished miserably on the return journey. His statue stands in Sidney, Australia....

A roughly square enclosure surrounded by a 6 ft high wall having, at two opposing corners, rounded bastions with arrow-slits. Remains of the gateway to the enclosure are preserved.
The wall resembles castle bawns, but inside, instead of a tower, there are just the remains of one central rectangular house and a number of subsidiary rectangular buildings.

Nothing is known about the history of the place, but it was possibly built by a retainer of the de Burgs as a fortified homestead...

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 was originally the home of the Blakes, one of the tribes of Galway. Henry Blake purchased the Renvyle estate in 1680 from the Earl of Westmeath, who had been granted it under the Cromwellian settlements. Caroline Blake turned the house into a hotel in 1883. It was rebuilt following fire destruction in 1930....

The building, which is now the well known Tigh Neachtain pub was once the town house of Richard Martin of Ballinahinch, Connemara whose notoriety as a duelist in the 18th century earned him the title 'Hair-Trigger Dick'.

As a Member of Parliament he was instrumental in bringing in new anti-cruelty laws which led directly to the founding of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals - and a new nickname, 'Humanity Dick'....

This is situated 3km east of Tuam also on the Dunmore road and is the headquarters of the North Galway Bermingham Hounds....

This ruin marks a seat of the Lynch family, one of whose members, John Lynch, was a signatory of The American Declaration of Independence. The estate has been developed as an adventure centre run by the Vocational Education Authority....