Castle
Westport House
🇮🇪 Ireland · 18th century
Westport House in Westport, County Mayo, Ireland, is a Georgian country house, historically the family seat of the Marquess of Sligo and the Brownes. The house was designed by the architect Richard Cassels with later additions by Thomas Ivory and James Wyatt.
The title and the house were separated in 2014, following the death of Jeremy Browne, 11th Marquess of Sligo, who left the estate to his five daughters. His titles passed to his first cousin, Sebastian Ulick Browne, a residential estate agent in Australia.
In 2017, the house was purchased by the Hughes family, owners of Portwest.
Text adapted from “Westport House” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Westport House ranks #1,920 of 3,691 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #36 of the 53 mapped in Ireland. Founded 1730, it is older than 21% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 238 atlas entries founded in the 18th century. See how Ireland compares in the castle statistics.
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