woodlawn house, galway
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does anyone know much about this place?
i was there on monday last, and managed to get in – all i really garnered from local knowledge is that it was occupied till the seventies, and featured impressive gardens. the house is as intact as you might expect – some fire damage inside, which has gone through some floors, and the roof has come in in one section, with the expected damage beneath. but it’s still in relatively good nick, considering.
it’s a photographer’s wet dream, though – all i had was one roll of 120 left, however.
should give an idea of the scale of the place – the worker’s living quarters out the back are like a small village.
i have found these links, not a huge amount of help:
http://homepage.eircom.net/~williamfinnerty/wh/index.html
http://www.grantonline.com/grant-family-genealogy/Records/woodlawn.htmAt Kilconnell, Co. Galway, a refaced three story house enlarged in the 1860/70 by J.F. Kempster of Ballinasloe. Originally built for Lord Ashdown and sold to the Le Poer Trenches c. 1950. The house was re sold in 1974.
There was nearly a deal done on Woodlawn 5 years ago; it is still available at a reduced price should anyone wish to restore it and the accompanying parkland. Country Club uses will not be considered.
They are very nice images. They really convey a feeling of the present condition of the house.
Agreed, phil. I don’t know what you’re complaining about, magicbastarder.:)
And I particularly like those cast iron cornucopia features on the bases of the bannisters, affixed to the stair ends- most unusual.For more info, there was a survey done of Co Galway by the NIAH in 1999 or so, but I just checked the website (http://www.buildingsofireland.ie) and it seems not to have been published yet, at least online. There might be a paper version of it lying around in the NIAH offices, but they might be reluctant to admit this to the public owing to the time elapsed since the survey was done.
Send me a PM and I will forward you the relevant contact details of the person who put the aborted deal together the last time
What a fantastic place – lovely pictures mb.
It is indeed available at a reduced price. I remember this being advertised in property supplements five years ago, astonished at the knock-down price it was going for. I still have the cuttings somewhere if I can find them…
Of course were it to be restored it’d just be another pile of Victoriana – much better to leave it as a crumbling romantic pile 😉
Not at all, but one can never help feeling that with any restoration, the mystique and faded grandeur that makes a place so worthy of restoration in the first place is paradoxically often completely wiped out upon the work getting underway.
The inherent potential of a decrepit building can be more satisfying than its realisation.What a stunning staircase.
i’d just be curious at what sort of use you could put the restored house to – at a rough guess, it’s well over 30,000 square foot. it’s about twelve miles northwest of ballinasloe, and if the conditions exclude a country club, what’s left?
I saw a file from last year for a nine bed new build half way up the side of Nephin with 21 car spaces and my first reaction was Paul’s intended use for east end lowlife.
Should really be held in trust given its quality but in the absence of a properly funded national trust one can only hope that a philanthropic minded individual with deep pockets may be seeking a country home.
*checks little black book*
I’ve Dermot Desmond….Sir Anthony O’Reilly….Denis O’Brien is here too – just not Naughton I’m afraid 🙁
Bah – so close.The ad. Not generally in the habit of hoarding things, but I still have this from The Irish Times, Thursday September 13th
2001:
What a bargain.
@magicbastarder wrote:
anyone got martin naughton’s phone number?
Yes. But he’s not shopping at the moment.
@Paul Clerkin wrote:
a house of debauchery… upmarket whorehouse for international jetsetting whitetrash
Well it has 26 bedrooms- one for every ****** in the Republic?
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