Sir Charles Domvile and his Shankill estate, County Dublin, 1857–1871

The eighteenth-century landscape of Stradbally Hall, Co. Laois

Clair Mc Donald

This short book examines Stradbally Hall’s landscape in a period that saw profound changes during the 18th century. It takes the perspectives of four diverse gr…

Castle Hyde

The changing fortunes of an Irish country house

Terence Dooley

Castle Hyde is one of the most important surviving country houses in the south of Ireland. This book details its rise as a country residence during the heyday o…

Marcella Gerrard's Galway estate, 1820–70

Tom Crehan

This book explores the transition that took place in a landed estate in the barony of Killian, east Galway, in the years 1820–70. It examines how the landlord, …

Struggle and strife on a Mayo estate, 1833–1903

The Nolans of Logboy and their tenants

Michael Kelly

This book reveals how landlord and tenants on a Mayo estate responded to a series of crises during the Victorian era, dominated by the Famine and the Land War. …

The changing fortunes of the Headfort estates, 1870–1928

Joe Mooney

In 1870, Thomas Taylour succeeded his father as marquess of Headfort and inherited estates of over 20,000 acres in Cavan and Meath. He had experience as an esta…

William Steuart Trench and his management of the Digby Estate, King's County, 1857–71

Mary Delaney

This book set out to establish what the true ‘realities’ were on the Digby estate in King’s County from 1857 to 1871, under the management of William Steuart Tr…

Edenderry, County Offaly, and the Downshire estate, 1790–1800

Ciarán Reilly

In the history of the 1798 rising in Ireland, Offaly is regarded as the forgotten county. It was not the scene of major military activity, but that does no mean…