Aasleagh, Assleagh, Co. Galway
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For Trusty Thursday we have an architectural mish mash of a house near the beautiful Aasleagh Falls.
With thanks in particular today to contributions from B-59, sharon.corbet, DannyM8 , & O Mac, we have confirmation of the subject (Aasleagh Lodge), it's location (close to Leenane on the Galway/Mayo border), and possibly refined date range (likely 1906 +/- 5 years or so). Quite interesting is that we learned that this image would have been a candidate for our "no longer standing" album - had it not been for restoration works undertaken after the house was burned in the 1920s...
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: The Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: c. 1865-1914 (though possibly c.1906-1911)
NLI Ref: L_CAB_04399
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Source: Flickr Commons
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With thanks in particular today to contributions from B-59, sharon.corbet, DannyM8 , & O Mac, we have confirmation of the subject (Aasleagh Lodge), it's location (close to Leenane on the Galway/Mayo border), and possibly refined date range (likely 1906 +/- 5 years or so). Quite interesting is that we learned that this image would have been a candidate for our "no longer standing" album - had it not been for restoration works undertaken after the house was burned in the 1920s...
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: The Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: c. 1865-1914 (though possibly c.1906-1911)
NLI Ref: L_CAB_04399
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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Owner: National Library of Ireland on The CommonsSource: Flickr Commons
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B-59
Seems to be this house: www.aasleaghlodge.ie/ Streetview: goo.gl/maps/fVz8URTLMPD2
sharon.corbet
The original was burnt down in 1923 and was rebuilt.
B-59
According to www.wikiwand.com/en/Destruction_of_Irish_country_houses_%... it was destroyed in 1923 during the Troubles and rebuilt.
B-59
"The house dates back to the 18th century. It was badly damaged by fire in 1923, but has since been renovated and is now run by staff of the State's Western Regional Fisheries Board." www.galway.net/galwayguide/showyp.shtml?id=4071 (But the house is apparently in County Mayo, not Galway)
DannyM8
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] I think this stopped in the last year or two the WFB put it out to tender and it is now run by the Delphi Resort? I remember that the house was owned by Lord Brabourne and he or some of his family were killed along with Lord Mountbatten by the Provisional IRA. I believe the State bought the Lodge and the rights to the fishery from the Brabourn family as they could not bring themselves to return to the house after that terrible time.
DannyM8
Lord Brabourne himself survived the bomb it was devastating on his family - he was married to a daughter of Mountbatten "In the August 1979 explosion off Mullaghmore, Lord Brabourne's 14-years old son, Nicholas; his mother, the Dowager Lady Brabourne, as well as his father-in-law, Lord Mountbatten, were killed when the IRA bomb blew apart Lord Mountbatten's boat, The Shadow V. Another of Lord Brabourne's sons, Timothy, a twin of Nicholas, survived, as did Lord Brabourne's wife, Lady Patricia Mountbatten, daughter of Lord Mountbatten. A 15-years old boy, Paul Maxwell, who was also on the boat, died in the explosion. Braebourne Died in 2005 - from Irish Independent
DannyM8
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/24838568943/in/dateposted/
O Mac
The photograph must have been taken after 1901 as we don't see a house with so many windows 'til 1911 when it would appear the house was being used as a Protestant Episcopalian boarding school run by a Jeanie Davis. House and Building Return 1911
sharon.corbet
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]] There were possible "alts." in 1906 according to the DIA (assuming that Aasleagh Lodge and Aasleagh Lodge are the same thing).
DannyM8
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/25097980629/in/dateposted/ Leasehold of Aasleagh to be sold - IT Jan 1st 1873 Assleagh was an Hotel in 1886.
O Mac
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] I'd say those "alts." had to have been major for KAYE-PARRY & ROSS to have been involved and I'd go for post 1906... Aasleagh Lodge and Aasleagh Lodge are the same thing :)
sharon.corbet
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]] Oops :-) Typing is hard. I meant Aasleagh Lodge and Aasleagh House... I think that "school" in 1911 was actually an Orphanage - mentioned here as part of the Irish Church Missions activities. Aasleagh Lodge may also be one of the vacant houses.
DannyM8
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/24836300094/in/dateposted/ It may not be the correct date but Mr Lawrence was at work in the area in September 1900.
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A tall tale ...
From The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate [!!] 27/06/1923 p.4 - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/171780022DannyM8
Alfred Maudslay Lease from 1890 until 1919
DannyM8
Thursday June 29th 1911 Maudslay Summer Residence Aasleagh - Coronation Day Celebrations. https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/25100260469/in/dateposted/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] It seems that Maudslay leased the house from 1890 and he was there in 1911 - which does not tie in with the Orphanage / Boarding school idea???
O Mac
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Yes, you're right. The school/orphanage was somewhere else. I think https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] is right too in that Aasleagh House/Lodge was unoccupied at both census times and is one of the buildings listed as such on both building returns. Pity there is no OSI 25" historic map to show us where the orphanage was.
sharon.corbet
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]] [https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]] There's an article about "Holy War in Aasleagh" which mentions: Readers are asked to send contributions for this project to Miss Aldridge at Aasleagh Lodge, Westport. She was the sister of David Plunket’s wife. An orphanage was built later which confirms that the orphanage was a separate building.
sharon.corbet
Alfred Maudslay was pretty interesting. He was a photographer too.
Swordscookie
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Some shower of republicans you lot are! Paying homage to royals, lords, ladies and reverends that are not in evidence while there before you, in full living black and white is a real live gardener and you pay no attention to him! Now, show how good you really are and find his name for me:-)
Niall McAuley
If the house "dates back to the 18th century" per the galway.net, why does it not appear on the 1839 6" OSI map? Perhaps they meant 1800s. I like the landed estates info better: The 19th century lodge was let to the Honourable David Plunket in the 1850s. It must have been built in the 1840s.
sharon.corbet
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/swordscookie] Frank Mullen would be one possibility. As would Michael Joyce...
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[https://www.flickr.com/photos/swordscookie] He reminds me of 'Michael' (John Mills, Oscar for Best Supporting Actor), from Ryan's Daughter. www.altfg.com/film/wp-content/uploads/images/john-mills-r...
O Mac
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]] " Mr Lawrence" was at Aasleagh more than once. Here is another, taken at a later date, showing a trellis on front wall.
DannyM8
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] He did get around the country.
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Fantastic - thanks all. Sounds like, in a not too unlikely alternate history, this image would have been a candidate for our "no longer standing" album...
O Mac
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland ... maybe you should open an "only a bit of it left standing " album. The right hand, and older part, of the building was demolished in 1923.
philfluther
Comments 2. Driveway? Seems to me to be a man: wearing a hat smoking a pipe scything. Cottage orne, "A rustic building of picturesque design" English Heritage.