When he passes through Sligo on Wednesday, it won't be "bare Ben Bulben's head" that will catch the imagination of the Prince of Wales, but the long, icy shadow cast by Classiebawn Castle and the ...

IT has now emerged that almost 30 years before the State could have acquired Lissadell House, a somewhat similar situation arose in relation to Classiebawn Castle, which the late Lord Louis ...

Mountbatten's residence: The late Earl Mountbatten offered his Irish residence, Classiebawn Castle in Co Sligo, to the Irish nation four years before he was killed by a Provisional IRA bomb.

Tunney spent most of his time at Classiebawn, but it was not an entirely idyllic existence. In 1981, Sinn Féin members staged a sit-in at the castle in support of the H-Blocks campaign.

Mountbatten was holidaying at his summer home in Classiebawn Castle in Mullaghmore, a seaside village in County Sligo which was just 12 miles from the Northern Irish border. On August 27, IRA member ...

Under the shadow of Ben Bulben in the Dartry Mountains of County Sligo lies the Streedagh beach peninsula. Up the coast and visible from Streedagh's sands is Classiebawn Castle, the home of Lord ...