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  2. Sale of Irish country house contents - Wikipedia

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    Dublin 1875 Domville family following bankruptcy Most high value contents 1890 Kilcroney House, Bray Wicklow 29 July 1890 Battersby & Company Built by Humphrey Lloyd and residence of Matthew P D'arcy 1904 63 Fitzwilliam Square North Dublin 23-25 July 1904 Battersby & Company Objects owned by Sir Robert Foster 1910 Ely House, Ely Place, Dublin ...

  3. List of historic houses in the Republic of Ireland - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of historic houses in the Republic of Ireland which serves as a link page for any stately home or historic house in Ireland. County Carlow [ edit ]

  4. Petworth House - Wikipedia

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    Petworth House is a late 17th-century Grade I listed country house in the parish of Petworth, West Sussex, England. It was built in 1688 by Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, and altered in the 1870s to the design of the architect Anthony Salvin. [2] It contains intricate wood-carvings by Grinling Gibbons (d. 1721). It is the manor house of ...

  5. Manor of St. Sepulchre - Wikipedia

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    The Manor of St. Sepulchre (also known as the Archbishop's Liberty) was one of several manors, or liberties, that existed in Dublin, Ireland since the arrival of the Anglo-Normans in the 12th century. They were townlands united to the city, but still preserving their own jurisdiction. St.

  6. Pitshill - Wikipedia

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    Pitshill is a Grade II* listed house built in the neoclassical style and is located within the Parish of Tillington a couple of miles west of Petworth. Begun by William Mitford in 1760 on the site of an earlier house it was completed by his son, also William, in 1794. [1] It is considered to be one of the most important country houses in West ...

  7. Destruction of Irish country houses (1919–1923) - Wikipedia

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    Ballynastragh House depicted in 1826, typical of the "Big Houses" targeted by the IRA.By the start of the Irish revolutionary period in 1919, the Big House had become symbolic of the 18th and 19th-century dominance of the Protestant Anglo-Irish class in Ireland at the expense of the native Roman Catholic population, particularly in southern and western Ireland.

  8. Jail for Sale: Live in a Former New York State Prison - AOL

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    Some for-sale former correctional facilities, such as the Litchfield Jail in Litchfield, Conn., for example, have remained on the market for years without a bite, due to their undesirable penal ...

  9. Kilmainham Gaol - Wikipedia

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    Sessions House and Jail, Kilmainham, 1836. Dublin Penny Journal. In an attempt to relieve the overcrowding, 30 female cells were added to the Gaol in 1840. [3] These improvements had not been made long before the Great Famine occurred, and Kilmainham was overwhelmed with the increase of prisoners.