1803 – Killymoon Castle, Cookstown, Co. Tyrone
Killymoon Castle is one of John Nash’s earliest castles,
Killymoon Castle is one of John Nash’s earliest castles,
Picturesque Italianate villa, for Rev. John Molesworth Staples (nephew,
The centre piece of the Ulster-American Folk Park is the Mellon Homestead which is still on its original site.
The estate was bought from the seventh Earl of Cork for £94,400 by James Alexander (later first Earl of Caledon) in 1776.
A large three-storey, seven-bay house, for local MP,
Described in Ordnance Survey of 1833 as “The courthouse is a neat and substantial building,
The original house of the demense was destroyed in 1823 by an accidental fire,
Rebuilt in 1829 by Major Richardson Brady in a heavily symmetrical and very flat “Regency Baronial”
Gate lodge taken from Design No.4 in Robinson’s ‘Designs for Lodges &
Built in the 1840s in memory of the 2nd Earl Caledon,