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Where Cromwell's Colonel Built Ireland's First Country House and America's Media Baron Stole Its Magnificent Staircase

1662 witnessed Colonel John Eyre receiving 800 acres of confiscated Irish land from Oliver Cromwell as reward for his service during the Irish campaign, before constructing Eyrecourt Castle around 1660 as one of Ireland's earliest undefended country houses featuring ambitious …

Eyrecourt is a small place in County Galway. We're still writing the proper hub for it — pubs, food, walks, the things to skip — and it'll appear here when it does.