homes historical galway

Coole Park is the former home of Lady Augusta Gregory, a great friend of W.B. Yeats and co-founder of the Abbey Theatre. It's located about 3km north of the county Galway town of Gort and is operated by the National Parks & Wildlife Service. It spans about 1,000 acres and includes 6km of nature trails, 7 woods and of course Coole Lake.
Coole House, since demolished, was a focal point in the Celtic Literary Revival at the turn of the century. The initials of notable visitors to Coole Hou...

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....

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 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....

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...

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'....

Number 47 Dominick Street, now Galway Arts Centre, was once the town house of Lady Augusta Gregory. She was a leading light in the Irish Literary Revival at the turn of this century and at her home at Coole Park near Gort, she played host to Ireland's leading writers. Her city residence has since been home to Galway Corporation, and now the Arts Centre, which has regular exhibitions and theatre shows....

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....

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

An 18th century house with 19th century additions, it is now owned by Opus Dei and used as a conference centre....