An aerial view of Westport House today, beside George Moore’s 1761 interpretation of the same estate. Over 260 years apart, yet the vision endures…Interesting to note the difference in scale between Clare island in the painting and moder
Once a grand Mayo country house, Raheens was built in 1847 on the site of an older 18th-century Browne family home. Today, only its ruins and a towering 80-foot obelisk remain, the latter built in 1809 by Dodwell Browne in memory of his wife, Maria.