The first thing that came to mind when we saw this image was a poster that was out and about some years ago of many Georgian Doors in Dublin. The colours, the decorations and the detail on the fanlights above the doors were a joy to see. Given the similarities in this shot another poster of doors throughout the country could easily be as big a hit? The Grange in Ballyragget, Co. Kilkenny is the subject of this image and one hopes that the building matches the sturdiness and detail of the door?
Photographer:
Irish Tourist Association Photographer
Collection:
Irish Tourist Association Photographic Collection
Date: 1942 - 1944
NLI Ref:
NPA ITA 1204 (Box VI)
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at
catalogue.nli.ie
Info:
Owner:
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Source:
Flickr Commons
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suckindeesel
grangemanorkilkenny.com/
suckindeesel
Can’t get past the entrance maps.app.goo.gl/7zR9xfbRp7kY92SDA?g_st=ic but their website photo shows the same fanlight. Now a B&B
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I bet this gets Explored !
Niall McAuley
As ever with the ITA, the question is why they thought this was a tourist attraction. From the NIAH: historic connections with the Stannard family including John Stannard (né Lannigan) (d. 1836); William Stannard (d. 1855); and Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Stannard (d. 1904) 'late of The Grange Ballyraggett sic County Kilkenny' (Calendars of Wills and Administrations 1907, 495)
O Mac
That front door and fanlight can be bought for €1, 950,000 including attached building, lands and six wc's. www.jamesedition.com/real_estate/ballyragget-ireland/gran...
Niall McAuley
In the Similar Items sidebar of the catalogue, I see the castle, the square, a lodge, a moat and fair green, all in ballyragget and pictured in the ITA collection, so it is not this house in particular but the whole Ballyragget area being catalogued.
Niall McAuley
1911 census, just Frances Stannard, and 4 servants. In 1901, the mistranscribed Henry and Eliza Thomas Stamward. (actually Eliza Frances Stannard on the pdf)
Niall McAuley
Henry is the Lt. Col who died in 1904. Executor/beneficiary is widow Elizabeth F.
Niall McAuley
Ah, looking at the 1911 form pdf, I see that she is E. Frances Stannard, the same woman.
Niall McAuley
thepeerage says she was born Elizabeth Frances Edie, and they married in 1901, no children.
Niall McAuley
Lots of pics lifted from a 2021 myhome dot ie ad for sale at irishhistorichouses.com/tag/grange-manor-county-kilkenny/
Niall McAuley
Eliza Frances remarried in 1914, to Lawrence Charles Edward Downing Dowdall apparently a Knight also Companion of the Bath (!)
Niall McAuley
Wow, per thepeerage, she was married and widowed three times, had no children and lived to be a hundred!
Foxglove
first photo catch of a seismic event
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A Quaker House !
O Mac
See Ireland First... Irish Tourism Association poster from 1920's flic.kr/p/2owmTGp