Ireland · Partial ruin
Dromore Castle
Dromore Castle is a 19th-century castellated Gothic Revival manor house in Templenoe, County Kerry, designed by Sir Thomas Deane for the Mahony family and completed in 1839. It sits above the Kenmare River within formal gardens and estate grounds and retains a distinctive round tower, crenellated roofline and a large pointed-arch south window. The property is privately owned and has been offered for restoration in recent decades.
Its prime
1895
Today
Partial ruin
As it stood in 1895
The shape it held in its prime.
Castellated Gothic Revival manor in Roman cement with limestone dressings, broad rectangular main block with crenellated parapets and a conspicuous pointed-arch grand south window of traceried glass. Most other windows are pointed tracery set inside rectangular frames. West wing terminates in a round tower with an attached turret containing a spiral stair. The house stands within cultivated gardens on a gentle slope above the Kenmare River, approached through a matching castellated gatehouse.
Its story
The story of Dromore Castle.
Dromore Castle was built for Denis Mahony of the Mahony family to a neo-Gothic design by the architect Sir Thomas Deane, probably assisted by his brother Kearns Deane. Work began in 1831 and was completed in 1839, on a site looking out over the Kenmare River at Templenoe, County Kerry.
The house is in the castellated Gothic Revival style, finished in Roman Cement with limestone dressings. A grand south-facing window with a pointed arch dominates the design; the entrance hall, in the form of a long gallery, takes up half the ground floor, and the west wing forms a round tower with a spiral staircase in an attached turret. Entrance to the grounds is through a castellated gatehouse, also by Deane.
From Richard Mahony the castle passed to his son Harold Segerson Mahony, who was killed in a bicycle accident in 1905 leaving no heirs. It went to his sister Norah Hood, then to her cousin Hugh Bolton Waller, and remained with the Waller family until offered for sale in 1993. An investment company now owns the castle and is attempting to restore it; most of the former grounds belong to Coillte, the Irish forestry board, with the Kerry Way running through them.
Step inside
9 places to explore in 1895.
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Clans who held Dromore Castle.
The families that held Dromore Castle for a decade or more across its history — follow a name to its clan.
Built for the Mahony family in the 1830s; held until Harold Segerson Mahony died without heirs in 1905.
Waller
Left by Norah Hood to her cousin Hugh Bolton Waller; the Wallers held Dromore until 1993.
