Tyrone House in

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is a ruined manor house, built in the 1770s on a promontory by the estuary of the Kilcolgan river, about from the village of

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. The house was destroyed by the local

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(IRA) unit during the

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History

Tyrone House, County Galway, was built in 1779. It should not be confused with

Tyrone House Tyrone House in County Galway is a ruined manor house, built in the 1770s on a promontory by the estuary of the Kilcolgan river, about from the village of Kilcolgan, County Galway, Ireland. The house was destroyed by the local Irish Republ ...

, Marlborough Street, Dublin, a townhouse designed by

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for The 1st Earl of Tyrone of the 3rd creation in 1740. Its original owner was Christopher St. George, scion of an old Norman Galwegian family. The house was reputedly designed by

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(1712/14–1796) of Waterford, who also designed Moore Hall in

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and Waterford Cathedral. The St. George family at the time owned much of the area around Kilcolgan. Arthur French St. George was described as a resident proprietor in 1824. In 1912, Tyrone House was described as "rather dilipated" by visitor

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. It served as an inspiration for the novel "The Big House at Inver" by

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, published in 1925. The house was destroyed by the local IRA unit during the

in 1920 due to rumours that it was going to be used by the

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as an infirmary. The house was uninhabited at the time, except for a bed-bound caretaker who was taken from the house in his bed and left in another building on the premises before the main house was set alight.

References

External links

National University of Galway Estate Records

National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Ruins in the Republic of Ireland Buildings and structures in County Galway Beresford family 1779 establishments in Ireland 1920 disestablishments in Ireland {{Ireland-struct-stub