Constructed by The 3rd Viscount Palmerston between 1784 and 1765, Classiebawn Castle is a rural estate situated on a 4,000-hectare estate on the Mullaghmore Peninsula, close to Cliffoney hamlet in County Sligo, Republic of Ireland. Architect James Rawson Carroll of Dublin created the Baronial design for it. It is made of yellow-brown sandstone that was transported by sea from County Donegal. It consists of a group of gabled buildings with a central tower capped by a turret with a conical roof. Master of the Rolls of Ireland, Sir John Temple, was given the land where Classiebawn currently sits. The 3rd Viscount Palmerston, a statesman who held the positions of British Prime Minister and British Foreign Secretary, inherited the property. The harbor at Mullaghmore and the present Classiebawn Castle were both ordered to be built by this Lord Palmerston. The Rt. Hon. William Cowper-Temple, his stepson and heir, finished the home in 1874 after he passed away in 1865. When the latter went away in 1888 without bearing children, his nephew, The Hon. Evelyn Ashley, the second surviving son of The 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, inherited the estate. Every year, Evelyn Ashley would spend a few months there. Wilfrid Ashley, his only son, succeeded him after his death in 1907. Along with his daughters Edwina, who would go on to become Countess Mountbatten, and Mary, who served as the second wife of 4th Baron Delamere from 1944 until 1955, he also enjoyed his summers at the castle. The home was cleared in 1916 and stood unoccupied until 1950. After Edwina Mountbatten inherited it in July 1939, she and her husband, Admiral of the Fleet Louis Mountbatten, made a number of modifications, including the installation of a mains water supply and electricity. The last Viceroy of India, Mountbatten, spent his summers there after his wife passed away in February 1960. He died there in August 1979 when his boat was blown off of the shore of Mullaghmore. The estate of Hugh Tunney, a businessman from Trillick in County Tyrone, currently owns the castle and its environs. He leased the property for many years before purchasing it in 1991 [Information and Image Credit : Classiebawn_Castle, Wikipedia] [Wikipedia-Link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classiebawn_Castle ] [Image : Classiebawn_Castle; Wikipedia-Image Author : Kent Wang] [Image is availed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License; (Please Relate to Individual Image URLs for More Usage Property and Sharing, Remixing or Attributing the Work)] [License-Link : https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en ] [Wikipedia-Image-Source-Link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Classiebawn_Castle,_Mullaghmore.jpg ] #Castles#History
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