On 13 August 1922 Mitchelstown Castle in Cork became the largest Irish country house to be destroyed during the civil war. Early histories of the War of Independence and civil war in Ireland make ...

noting that substantial spending on modernisation had rendered Tullamaine ‘one of the most liveable castle[s] in Ireland’.) The intensification of ‘big-house’ burning during the civil war ...

Ashford Castle, which was originally built in 1228, is located in Cong, Ireland (roughly 25 miles northwest of Galway). Recent guests said that they felt like royalty during their stays ...