Historic houses · Northern Ireland
Lissan House
Lissan House in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
Kenneth Allen — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
- Family-friendly
- Limited wheelchair access
About
Lissan House is a place of interest in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Lissan House is a historic house and tourist attraction in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, that was the seat of the Staples baronets. Lissan lies nestled at the foot of the Sperrin Mountains amid ancient woodland near the historic market town of Cookstown.
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Background
Description
The estate was home to the Staples family from about 1620 until the death of the last incumbent, Hazel Radclyffe-Dolling (née Staples), in April 2006, the longest known occupation by a single family of a domestic dwelling in Ireland. Thomas Staples had originally come from Yate Court, near Bristol in Southwestern England, in about 1610 as part of the plantation of Ulster. He settled in the town of Moneymore (then being constructed as part of the terms of the Plantation Grant to the Worshipful Company of Drapers who had been granted large swathes of the new County in 1611) in County Londonderry and his stone house is marked on a Thomas Raven map of 1622 beside the Market Cross. In around…
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- Coordinates
- 54.6720, -6.7609
- District
- Mid Ulster
- Postcode
- BT80 9QG
- Parliamentary constituency
- Mid Ulster
- Official site
- www.lissanhouse.com
Sources
- wikidata: Q6559134 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Lissan House (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Lissan House?
- Lissan House is in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom (postcode BT80 9QG).
- Who owns Lissan House?
- Lissan House is owned by Lissan House Trust.
- How do I get to Lissan House?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode BT80 9QG. It sits within the Mid Ulster parliamentary constituency.