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Baronscourt House comprises a delightful ornamental garden, with guided tours given in the summer (tours may be arrranged at other times for parties of ten or more). The Baronscourt Garden Centre, however, is open all year round and offers a wide selection of plants, trees, shrubs and gardening equipment....

There is a touch of the Marie Celeste about the Argory, as if time had stood still a century ago and its occupants might at any moment return from their vanished world, bringing the place to life. The house is neither large nor grand by nineteenth-century standards. its importance lies in the remarkable survival of its interior which, unique in Ireland, evokes the atmosphere and ambience of the late Victorian country house life. There is a National Trust shop on site and tea is available in t...

The tidy village of Caledon takes its name from the Earls of Caledon. Their mansion designed by Thomas Cooley (1779) and enlarged by John Nash (1810), is the fourth great house to be built here. It has a beautiful Regency drawing room and library and the fourth earl kept black bears in the park. His thrid son, born in 1891, was Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis. On the estate is the ruin of a strange folly made out of the knuckle bones of cattle. It was built in the eighteenth century by Lor...

South of the town is Loughry Manor (now an agricultural college), a plantation mansion which has associations with Dean Jonathan Swift. He stayed here as a guest of the Lindsay family, while writing Gulliver's Travels (published 1726). Portraits of 'Stella' (Esther Johnston died 1728) and 'Vanessa' (Esther Vanhomrigh died 1723) still hang in the Old Library. The Dean loved them both, and made them both miserable....

It was here that the maternal ancestors of Ulysses Simpson Grant, General and 18th President of the United States raised their families. Today the homestead and farm have been restored to the style and appearance of the mid 19th century small holding....

A 250 year old traditional mud fisherman's cottage on the western shores of Lough Neagh in the townland of Aneeterbeg....