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Lissadell - "That old Georgian Mansion" in the words of W.B. Yeats - is still owned by the Gore-Booth family. A fine but austere example of Greek-Revival architecture, it is full of many artefacts associated with succeeding generations of the family. Visitors can expect a genuine atmosphere of faded grandeur....

Passing eastwards to Elphin you pass Raheen House, once the home of the Irwins, where, on a visit there, Goldsmith got the idea for his play She Stoops to Conquer. Elphin, which had been the seat of a bishopric for 1500 years, has given its name to the diocese. St. Patrick founded a religious establishment here, over which he placed St. Assicus as its first bishop; he is the patron saint of the Elphin diocese to this day....