Woodstock Estate
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Woodstock House and Estate is a ruined Georgian house and estate located near Inistioge, County Kilkenny, Ireland, on the west bank of the River Nore. The Ladies of Llangollen story began here and Mar
The ruins of Woodstock House
Mary Blachford Tighe (1772-1810) as sculpted by Lorenzo Bartolini ca. 1820.
Ladies of Llangollen
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The "Ladies of Llangollen", Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, were two upper-class Irish women who lived together as a couple. Their relationship scandalised and fascinated their contemporaries. The
Woodstock Estate
…Woodstock House and Estate is a ruined Georgian house and estate located near Inistioge, County Kilkenny, Ireland, on the west bank of the River Nore. The Ladies of Llangollen story began here and Mary Tighe died here. The house was destroyed by presumed arson after it was used a billet by the British army during the Irish…
Portrait of The Rt. Hon. Lady Eleanor Butler & Miss Ponsonby 'The Ladies of Llangollen'
Sarah Ponsonby and Lady Eleanor Butler in their library
Portrait of Ladies of Llangollen 1819
Carved oak porch of Plas Newydd. The house did not look like this during the Ladies' tenure; the exterior woodwork on the walls postdates them, added by a later owner between 1861 and 1890.