Classiebawn Castle
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Classiebawn Castle is a country house on the Mullaghmore Peninsula near the village of Cliffoney in County Sligo, Ireland. It was built in the late 19th century for British Prime Minister Lord Palmers
Classiebawn Castle, Mullaghmore
Classiebawn overlooking the Atlantic Ocean
Lord Mountbatten, a retired British statesman and cousin to Queen Elizabeth II, was assassinated on 27 August 1979 off the coast of Mullaghmore, Ireland. Thomas McMahon, an Irish republican and a volu
Classiebawn Castle
…and a mains water supply. After his wife's death in February 1960, Lord Mountbatten of Burma, the last Viceroy of India, spent his summers there until his death when his boat was blown up off the coast of Mullaghmore by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (Provisional IRA) in August 1979. In 1991, Hugh Tunney (1928-2011), a businessman…
Mountbatten in 1976
Mountbatten in the uniform of colonel-in-chief of the Household Cavalry, 1972
Classiebawn Castle, County Sligo
Shadow V; Mountbatten, wearing white, sits on the left, at the stern of the boat.