Strokestown Park: The Landlord's Archive
Roscommon, Ireland
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Strokestown Park: The Landlord's Archive
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Strokestown Park House in Roscommon is a Palladian mansion built for the Mahon family in the 1730s. During the Great Famine, Major Denis Mahon evicted some 3,000 people from the estate in 1847 and shipped 1,490 of them to Quebec on overcrowded "coffin ships" — many died on the way or soon after landing. On 2 November 1847 he was ambushed and shot dead in his carriage on the road home from a famine relief meeting. The archive of letters, rent rolls and eviction orders he left behind survived intact and is the core of the Irish National Famine Museum on the grounds.
Required Activities
1
of 4
In the Famine Museum, find the estate papers themselves — the rent rolls, eviction notices and letters Denis Mahon generated in 1846 and 1847, originals rather than copies
2
of 4
In the house kitchen, look up at the gallery running along the wall above, built so the family could watch the servants at work without going down among them
3
of 4
Read the account of Denis Mahon's assassination in the museum — ambushed in his carriage on the road home from a relief meeting on 2 November 1847
4
of 4
Walk the six-acre walled garden and its herbaceous border, one of the longest in Ireland
In the Famine Museum, find the estate papers themselves — the rent rolls, eviction notices and letters Denis Mahon generated in 1846 and 1847, originals rather than copies
In the house kitchen, look up at the gallery running along the wall above, built so the family could watch the servants at work without going down among them
Read the account of Denis Mahon's assassination in the museum — ambushed in his carriage on the road home from a relief meeting on 2 November 1847
Walk the six-acre walled garden and its herbaceous border, one of the longest in Ireland
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