Building just North of Ballindine

Delphi91

Hi,

Just wondering if someone could tell me what the building in the photo attached is? Sorry if it's not all that clear (blame Google Earth!), but it's a few kms outside Ballindine on the left, on the main road to Sligo. It seems to be a convent/school of some sort - I can make out what looks like a large religious painting on the outside of the buliding as I drive past.

yop

Nursing home I think? But not 100% sure.

nicol

This is it I'd say

http://www.ballindineschool.com/castlemacgarrett.html

Dudda

Ya it's Castle Mac Garrett. It used to be a nursing home which my granny stayed in during her last few years and it the building closed a few years later.

It was a beautiful building inside but is now showing the signs of neglect.

Check out some of these beautiful photos I've found
http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=26212#.UcBBH9w3smM


And this is the large religious painting you mentioned.

Delphi91

Thanks for the info guys! Much appreciated.

Seems a fantastic building inside. Such a shame it's left derelict.

reap-a-rat

I'll get more information the next time I'm speaking to my mother. In recent years it's been left vacant. However, it was indeed a nursing home before that.

Castlemagarett originally was owned by Lord Oranmore and Browne. I believe there was a documentary recently enough about the Brownes. My Grandad worked there back in the day as a stable hand I think. This was a time when most of the folks from Crossboyne and Garryduff (villages nearby) would have had some sort of dealing with the place. In the picture there, and what you see now from the N17 is actually the back of the building. What's the back now was the front years and years ago, and the gardens there were spectacular.

I believe there was also an orchard there that the local youngsters used to rob - my mother reckons it's many's the time she and her sisters were chased away with someone threatening all sorts of abuse on them for taking the apples!

JJJJNR

Creepy thing is still powered on, wonder if there are any bodies in there..

:eek:

lollygmit1

Castlemacgarett was the home of the Oranmore Brownes. It was designed by the architect of Sir Richard Morrison Morrison was an Irish architect who specialised in designing Country Houses Sir Richard Morrison designed the House for the 1st Baron Oranmore and Browne Geoffrey Browne, the first generation of the Brownes to live in Castlemacgarrett.
Dominick Browne, (1787 - 1860), became the first Lord Oranmore and Browne, the title Oranmore being taken in view of the family lands and property at Oranmore, Co. Galway. The Browne family were the largest landowners in Connaght at that time. The Brownes had 13 country houses throughout Connaght, including Ashford Castle at Cong. They owned 54,000 acres. He was made a Privy Councilor for Ireland in 1834 and became one of twenty eight elected representative Irish Peers. He spent vast sums of money on electioneering. It is said that on one election he spent £40,000, of which £600 was spent on lemons for punch. The Great Famine completed his ruin. With the exception of Castlemacgarrett, 2000 acres, he had to sell off all his other estates in the encumbered Estates Court. The whole of the Galway property, some of which had been in the family for 600 years, then passed from the Browne family.

lollygmit1

another good source of information on castlemacgarrett can be found in the Crossboyne Parish Magazine who publish articles on castlemacgarett. they have alot of stuff on this house