Lissadell House
within 2km of the North West Trail
Lissadell House and Gardens are located 7km north of Sligo Town on the Bundoran Road. The house was built in the 1830s for Sir Robert Gore-Booth, 4th Baronet MP by London architect Francis Goodwin. In 1876, Sir Robert left the house and surrounding estate to his son, Sir Henry Gore-Booth, 5th Baronet.
The house was the childhood home of Irish revolutionary, Constance Gore-Booth, her sister the poet and suffragist, Eva Gore-Booth, and their siblings, Mabel Gore-Booth, Mordaunt Gore-Booth and Josslyn Gore-Booth. It was also the sometime holiday retreat of the world-renowned poet, William Butler Yeats.
The house was the childhood home of Irish revolutionary, Constance Gore-Booth, her sister the poet and suffragist, Eva Gore-Booth, and their siblings, Mabel Gore-Booth, Mordaunt Gore-Booth and Josslyn Gore-Booth. It was also the sometime holiday retreat of the world-renowned poet, William Butler Yeats.
The House and Gardens are situated on the Atlantic coast, and are surrounded by over 400 acres of land, including formal gardens, and wild woodland. Since it was purchased by Edward Walsh and his wife Constance Cassidy in 2003, the House and Gardens have undergone extensive restoration. The House itself has a large collection of paintings and literature by George ‘AE’ Russell, Jack Yeats, WB Yeats, Eva Gore Booth, and contemporary Artists and authors, all on view. Public access to the House is expanded with new Garden and China Rooms, and a new Yeats’ Room now also open to the public.
The restored hidden Gardens are also now open to the public, with daily access to the 2.5 acre Walled Victorian Kitchen Garden, and the 2 acre Seashore Alpine Rockery Garden.
Large Tearooms, and Garden Shop, where garden produce is sold directly to visitors, are also open in the newly restored Coachhouse complex, which also houses the Lissadell Exhibition Hall, presently showing the Countess Markievicz exhibition, with rarely seen memorabilia.
T: 00 353 (0)71 9163150
This project is supported by the EU INTERREG IIIA Programme for Ireland/Northern Ireland