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Turvey House was a substantially altered 17th-century house, with tower house elements, synonymous with the townland of Turvey (Irish: Tuirbhe) [1] [2] [3] near Donabate in North County Dublin. Turvey is said to be a reference to the Irish mythical character Tuirbe Tragmar ("thrower of axes"), father of Gobán Saor . [ 4 ]
It was originally the largest of four tower houses in the immediate area north of the Broad Meadow estuary along with Portrane Castle (Stella's Tower), Turvey House (now demolished) and Donabate (attached St. Patrick's Church of Ireland Church). The tower was probably part of the £10 Castle scheme initiated in 1429 by King Henry VI in which a ...
Donabate (Irish: Domhnach Bat) [2] is an outer suburb of Dublin, Ireland, about 21 kilometres (13 miles) north-northeast of Dublin, within the local government area of Fingal. The town is on a peninsula on Ireland's east coast, between the Rogerstown Estuary to the north and Broadmeadow Estuary to the south.
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.
Ghost estate of approx 10 houses outside village of Bridgetown, County Wexford, 2012.(In Use as of 2024) In October 2010, the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government reported, using a restricted brief, that there were 33,000 complete or nearly complete empty homes after a national audit and that there were a further 10,000 homes at various stages of construction. [12]
For example, Skerries came second in the 2014 Best Place to Live in Ireland awards. [citation needed] The town is also the only place to have won an award as an entire community at RTÉ & Rehab's People of the Year Awards in 2011. [20] In 2016, Skerries was named Ireland's Tidiest Town by the Supervalu National Tidy Towns competition. [21]
Portrane or Portraine (Irish: Port Reachrann) [1] is a small seaside village located three kilometers from the town of Donabate in Fingal, County Dublin in Ireland. It is in the barony of Nethercross in the north of the county. [2] Portrane has an approximately 2 km (1.2 mi) long sandy beach backed by sand dunes in places on the north end ...
The Strawberry Hall public house dates from post-1836 [16] and The Angler's Rest Hotel was built in the late 1800s. A shebeen existed on the site prior to the building of the public house. [ 17 ] The history of the Wren's Nest pub can be traced back at least five generations to the early 1800s from which point it came into the ownership of the ...