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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 Ca
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.
A statue of Grainne Mhaol Ni Mhaille was erected on the grounds of the house in 2003
Howe Peter Browne, 2nd Marquess of Sligo, styled Viscount Westport until 1800 and Earl of Altamont from 1800 to 1809, was an Anglo-Irish colonial administrator who served as the governor of Jamaica fr
Westport House
…The 1st Marquess of Sligo after the Act of Union in 1800. He seldom attended Parliament in London, being more content at home in Westport. His only son Howe Browne, 2nd Marquess of Sligo, inherited in 1809 at the age of twenty-one. Extravagant and generous, his early life subscribed to the popular image of a 'regency buck'. Friend of…
Portrait of Sligo
Hester Catherine de Burgh, 2nd Marchioness of Sligo (1800-1878)