IT has now emerged that almost 30 years before the State could have acquired Lissadell House, a somewhat similar situation arose in relation to Classiebawn Castle, which the late Lord Louis ...

When he passes through Sligo on Wednesday, it won't be "bare Ben Bulben's head" that will catch the imagination of the Prince of Wales, but the long, icy shadow cast by Classiebawn Castle and the ...

The late Lord Louis Mountbatten of Burma was killed by an IRA bomb planted on his boat n August 1979 just off the coast near his castle at Mullaghmore in County Sligo. Peter Nicholson was Lord ...

Classiebawn Castle in the village of Mullaghmore, County Silgo, is steeped in history. The impressive hulk of Mountcharles sandstone, standing majestically above the picturesque settlement on the ...

Mountbatten's residence: The late Earl Mountbatten offered his Irish residence, Classiebawn Castle in Co Sligo, to the Irish nation four years before he was killed by a Provisional IRA bomb.

Tunney spent most of his time at Classiebawn, but it was not an entirely idyllic existence. In 1981, Sinn Féin members staged a sit-in at the castle in support of the H-Blocks campaign.

Lord Mountbatten's housekeeper at Classiebawn Castle in Co Sligo, 97-year-old Philomena Barry, has died. Her sons, John and Pat, were at her bedside in Mullaghmore Co Sligo when she died earlier ...

Classiebawn Castle was the holiday home of Earl Mountbatten and his family between 1969 and the time of his murder at the hands of the IRA in August 1979.

Mountbatten was holidaying at his summer home in Classiebawn Castle in Mullaghmore, a seaside village in County Sligo which was just 12 miles from the Northern Irish border. On August 27, IRA member ...

Classiebawn Castle, Mullaghmore, Sligo. As a perk of the job, Peter Nicholson lived in a cottage on almost an acre of land a couple of miles from the castle.