Westport House in Westport, Ireland is the stately home of the Marquess of Sligo. It was built by the Browne family in the 18th Century, on the site of an O'Malley castle whose dungeons are still present today. The architects were Richard Cassels and later James Wyatt. Westport (Cathair na Mart in Irish) is a town in County Mayo in the Republic of Ireland. ... Marquess of Sligo is a title in the Peerage of Ireland created in 1800 for the Earl of Altamont. ... (17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ... The Alcázar of Segovia, Spain A castle (from the Latin castellum, diminutive of castra, a military camp, in turn the plural of castrum or watchpost), is a fort, a camp and the logical development of a fortified enclosure. ... Irish Palladianism. ... Fonthill Abbey. ...
Colonel John Browne (1638-1711) who built the original Westport House married Grace O’Malley’s great great Granddaughter, Maude Burke. He was a Roman Catholic who fought on the Williamite side in the War of the Two Kings. His descendants, however, converted to the established Church of Ireland, and prospered. Events March 29 - Swedish colonists establish first settlement in Delaware, called New Sweden. ... // Events February 24 - The London premiere of Rinaldo by George Friderich Handel, the first Italian opera written for the London stage. ... The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... For the context of this war see Jacobitism and Glorious Revolution. ... The Church of Ireland is an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion, operating seamlessly in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. ...
The current Marquess of Sligo is Jeremy Browne. He and his family still own and live in the Country Park and have been responsible for its success as a commercial enterprise. Jeremy Browne (born 17 May 1970) is a British politician. ...
Westport is the largest and most important country house west of the Shannon and the only house by Richard Castle to remain in the possession of the family that built it.
The house is the work of several architects, although the main mass of the building was designed in 1731 by Richard Castle for John Browne, later the first Earl of Altamont (1709-76).
Castle's house extended round three sides of an inner court, but between 1776 and 1778 its size was enormously increased when a fourth side was built to the designs of the Cork-born architect Thomas Ivory.
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