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One of my favourite National Trust properties but as with all NT houses the dog policy meant that we could only visit the car park? Photos taken from a footpath looking over a wall like a pleb looking up to the land owners country-seat!
While I know I'd half-promised an additional O'Dea shot this morning, I came across this delightful (family?) shot from the Clonbrock collection last night. And couldn't help myself. The kids' clothes are so clean and white, they seem to be glowing :)
Today's contributions help us map this image to Mote Park Estate in Roscommon. It was the home of the Crofton family, and seemingly birthplace of Augusta Caroline Crofton Dillon (Lady Clonbrock), who originated many of the images in the Clonbrock collection. It seems likely that the kids pictured are her grandchildren. The suggestion is that the smaller kids in white are twins George and Mary Mahon, and perhaps Ursula Mahon. Pictured perhaps on a visit with their older Crofton cousins. If so, it is likely that a catalogue correction is required - as the young George is perhaps mislabelled as a girl (dressed it seems identically to his twin). He may well have been looking forward to some more boyish games with his male cousin :)
Photographers: Dillon Family
Contributors: Luke Gerald Dillon, Augusta Caroline Dillon
Collection: The Clonbrock photographic Collection
Date: c.1914
NLI Ref: CLON1256
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
The core of the house dates from the 1340s, although a complicated series of alterations and additions were made in the late 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. A moat surrounds all four wings of the house, which in turn is built around an open courtyard.
Ightham Mote bears few external signs of change in architectural style. This is partly due to the modest ambitions of its successive owners, who expanded the house as their needs dictated, only doing so in a manner sympathetic to the medieval origins of the house.
Ightham Mote garden in winter - On the slope, beneath the silvery bark of the birches, a charming array of cyclamen and snowdrops appear gradually. Whilst alongside the vibrant stems of the dogwood (Cornus), the bowed heads of the hellebores greet you
Igtham Mote and well , that is one way to do the gardening , a few seconds after the shot that bit of weed growing on the near corner by the downpipe was gone and into one of the bags on the raft .