Ardanoir House, County Limerick

What is recorded here

Ardanoir House in Leahys means ‘Height of Gold’ and was home to the poet Charlotte Grace O’Brien. There’s a dangerous name to give a poet’s address: every relation arriving with a manuscript under one arm and a shovel under the other.

Detached two-storey house, built c. 1870. Pitched slate roof. Square-headed window openings with timber sash windows.

Ardanoir House, which means Golden Height or the Height of Gold, is an important house architecturally and historically within Foynes. It was formely the home of William Smith O'Brien's daughter Charlotte Grace O'Brien, the famous poet and humanitarian.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21829001

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