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Oranmore (Irish: Órán Mór or Uarán Mór) [2] is a town in County Galway, Ireland, 9 km (5.6 mi) east of Galway city on an inlet of Galway Bay. At the 2022 census , Oranmore had a population of 5,819. [ 1 ]
In 1979 the house was sold by the Mahons to John Horan, who advertised the house for sale again in 1988. There is still a house at this site. [9] [10] In Clonbrock sat the Dillon family, who acquired the lands from the O'Kellys (O'Ceallaigh) in the late 16th century. [11] [12] Clonbrock's estate house, now in ruin, was built in the 1780s. [13]
The case of the Craughwell Prisoners during the Land War in Co. Galway, 1879–85, Pat Finnegan, 2012; Loughrea, that den of infamy: The Land War in County Galway, 1879–82, Pat Finnegan, 2014. East Galway agrarian agitation and the burning of Ballydugan House, 1922, Anne O'Riordan, 2015. Rebellion in Galway – Easter Rising 1916 Kevin Jordan ...
Oranmore Castle was most likely built some time around the 15th century, possibly on top of an older fortified house. [2] The Clanricardes , a notable family from Galway, used it as a stronghold. In March 1642 the town, Oranmore, joined Confederate Ireland in a rebellion, against which the owners of the castle, the Marquess and the fifth Earl ...
Woodland path at Coole Park. The park was formerly the estate of the Gregory family. Coole House was built in the late 18th century for Robert Gregory: a three-storey house with a square porch and as principal rooms a dining room and drawing-room with bay windows facing out to Coole Lough and the Burren Hills, and a library in between them.
In 1852, Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness, 1st Baronet (1798–1868), heir to the Guinness brewery fortune and father of Arthur Guinness, "acquired several Connacht estates that were up for sale in the Encumbered Estates' Court. He bought the Ashford estate from Lord Oranmore and Browne, the Doon estate from Sir Richard O'Donnell, the Cong estate from ...
Carnmore (Irish: An Carn Mór) [1] is an electoral area located at the southern end of the parish of Claregalway, approximately 8 miles (13 km) east of Galway city in County Galway, Ireland. Carnmore is in a Gaeltacht area, although the majority of residents use English as their first language. [ 2 ]
Baron Oranmore and Browne, of Carrabrowne Castle in the County of Galway and of Castle Macgarrett in the County of Mayo, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1836 for Dominick Browne , who had earlier represented County Mayo in the House of Commons .