Westport, County Mayo
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Westport is a town in County Mayo in Ireland. It is at the south-east corner of Clew Bay, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean on the west coast of Ireland. Westport is a tourist destination and scores highly for quality of life. It won the Irish Tidy Towns Competition three times in 2001, 2006 and 2008. In 2012 it won the Best Place to Live in Ireland competition run by The Irish Times.
Mall along Carrowbeg River in Westport
The Carrowbeg river flows through Westport
The town of Westport in the early nineteenth century as painted by JA O'Connor. The main elements of the town are already in place.
John Browne, the First Earl of Altamont and Founder of the modern Westport House and the town of Westport
Westport House
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Westport House in Westport, County Mayo, Ireland, is a Georgian country house, historically the family seat of the Marquess of Sligo and the Brownes. The house was designed by the architect Richard Cassels with later additions by Thomas Ivory and James Wyatt.
Westport House East Front in 2023
Western elevation from the boating lake, Easter Sunday, 2011
John Browne built the first Westport House and fought for the Jacobite cause, which was defeated.
Southern facade. Easter Saturday, 2011, showing 1778 date in pediment.