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Clonalis House
Castlrea
Roscommon
Ireland
Phone & Fax:
(+353) 94 9620014
Clonalis House and Estate Heritage Lodgings in Ireland
Clonalis House and Estate enjoys a long and distinguished heritage as one of Ireland's most important family homes. Guests can now enjoy the unique charm of Clonalis in comfortable ensuite bedrooms with Georgian and Victorian furnishings.
Charles Owen O'Conor Don built Clonalis House between 1878 and 1880 in the Victorian Italianate/Queen Anne style and to the design of the talented 19th Century architect Pepys Cockrell. It was in this House that Charles Owen decided to bring up his four sons. The former residence known as the 'Old' Clonalis House can still be seen on the avenue leading up to the current home.
Today the residence is the home of Charles' great grandson, Pyers O'Conor Nash, his wife, Marguerite and their three children, Barbara, Richard and Letitia. The house, which is southerly facing, is designed with large windows in all its main reception rooms and bedrooms which capture daylight and ensure a bright, informal and airy residence. The house is surrounded by a 2 acre formal terraced garden and adjacent to a woodland dell garden.
Clonalis House is almost unique among Ireland's renowned Historic Houses in celebrating a Gaelic tradition and this is particularly reflected in its contents which include:
The O'Conor Coronation Stone on which generations of the Family were crowned Kings of Ireland's western province, Connacht.
Carolan's Harp, Turlough Carolan, 1674 - 1738 was the last and greatest of the Gaelic Bards who was patronised by the O'Conors.
The O' Conor Papers, a rare Family archive of some one hundred thousand documents and letters dating from the sixteenth century. Here letters from some of the most influential people in Irish, European and British history can be seen. Here too can be seen the parchment dating from the late 16th century, thought to be the last recorded verdict under the old Irish legal system, Brehan Law.
Clonalis House forms the centrepiece of Clonalis Estate, a 700 acre pasture and woodland property which is still an active farm dedicated to the production of Limousin beef cattle.
