One of the first things you learn as an urban explorer is that your idea of what's going to happen is rarely what
actually occurs
That's exactly the situation we found ourselves in at the start of the Odyssey as we investigated the derelict mansions of Ireland on
Day one we were hit by a freak snowstorm and later car issues
We have forged ahead and were able to visit many forgotten places on our tour of the island
The following are six of these amazing lost mansions of Ireland and their unique stories
Number one the mansion of stairs
The first house we're visiting is not only obscure
But very hard to access the house was built in the mid 1700s and is considered one of the Georgian great houses
It later was used for sports related activities and now has lain empty for over a decade waiting a sympathetic new owner
Who would restore it?
Approaching from the wooded park lands horses watch from the fields
The first thing you see is a large overgrown stair leading up to the imposing columns front
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Routing the side to ivy shrouded lion's glare from under their cover
The stables remain in good shape and the entire house even from this side appears
Well sealed with metal panels in order to keep out the damaging weather and vandals
Around the far side the twisted woods and to the gray and forlorn feel of this lost house
This is one that can still certainly be saved and we wish it the best as we head to the next site
Number two cool hauls
Ever since the planning stages of this journey. I was struck by the appearance of this unique building
also built in the 1700s
Amazingly this house has only been abandoned since the 1980s
Consistent of a very long row of stables and staff housing the building itself then stretches further in a giant L shape
With the long history a number of interesting characters lived here
One of its first owners was married to a lady Elizabeth who after their divorce
Became a well-known mistress to many nobles and later married a Duke and became an author
her own son died in the
Mid-1800s after cutting his own throat in a delirium
In the following years the next generation of the family spent much of their wealth on
Feeding the starving during that famine years in Ireland
The next generations also had strange ends as the owner in the 1930s was found dead in tragic and mysterious
circumstances while in Sudan with the British Army of the last two sisters in the family one lived till the
1960s under the man's name John which he insisted on being called and the final sister died in the mid-1980s
leaving the house to slowly fade and become the overgrown shell of today with dangerous slipping slate roof tiles on
This very windy day. We stayed well away from them and the collapsing roof, but still captured some of its magic
Number three creeper quartz another
1700s lost mansion this amazing Italian at pile was home to a long line of Barons
the first of the named vote this massive structure upon their fastest state lands a
Gatehouse wood towers and a long road with bridges stretched up to this great house
The most famous baron the third of his name was well known for open conflict with local
herders who he imported foreign labor to outlive labor boycott from in
Time all servants at the estate were to become Protestants which set up a long conflict that put him in the sights of the IRA
Who attacked his other properties in the area?
Likewise like the herders
His new servants were treated poorly and lived in small bears cell link rooms on one side of the huge mansion
Where they were paid little for their work
Finally an even more chilling Lee. The Baron was later apprehended in the 1920s after two children
Claimed he sexually assaulted them on a train. He was never prosecuted due to a court technicality
the overgrown back courtyard is still surrounded by a large and rotting stables and work houses a
Sharp twisted and rusty fence sketches. It's old perimeter
Extensive new security systems surround the house today as it gradually succumbs to decay since the last baron shot himself in the
1970s
It stares out upon the vast open fields as a reminder of the sometimes callous and pretentious display of wealth and power in its era
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