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December 16th, 2018

16/12/2018

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Drenagh House near Limavady is a very elegant stately home set within a large demesne. Historic home of the McCausland family. Robert McCausland was agent of William Conolly who purchased the Limavady Estate from the Phillip’s family.  Conolly, at one time Speaker of the Irish Parliament, acquired his riches buying and selling estates.  McCausland erected the first house several hundred yards south east of this building in the 1730s. This was demolished to make way for the present house designed by the eminent architect Charles  Lanyon  in the 1830′s. The building comands its surrounding landscape
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