Castle Oliver
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Castle Oliver is a Victorian castle-style country house in the southern part of County Limerick, Ireland. Built for entertaining rather than for defense, it has a ballroom, drawing room, library, morn
Castle Oliver south facade, porte cochere visible on left
Castle Oliver east facade with ballroom and dining room in main block, servants' wing and coach house on right
Castle Oliver west, stables wing on left
Ballroom with verre eglomise fireplace, Gothic-arched doors connect to drawing room
Lola Montez
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Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, better known by the stage name Lola Montez, was an Irish dancer and actress who became famous as a Spanish dancer, courtesan, and mistress of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, who made
Castle Oliver
…castle replaced the former Castle Oliver, which stood a thousand yards to the south-west and was the birthplace of Eliza Oliver, mother of the notorious Lola Montez, who became the lover and favourite of King Ludwig I of Bavaria. The castle was for many years known as Clonodfoy, a contraction of an earlier Irish…
Lola Montez photographed by Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon, 1860
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Lola Montez portrait by Joseph Heigel [de] before 1840
Lola Montez's lithography
Lola Montez with Alights-on-a-Cloud, 1850s