Built / Designed For: The Rev. Denis Mahony

House & Family History: Harold Mahony, who owned Dromore Castle in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was a prominent tennis player who won Wimbledon in 1896 and medaled for Great Britain and Ireland at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris (he won a silver medal in the men's singles and a bronze in the doubles). Harold trained on a specially built tennis court at Dromore, which can still be seen today. It was during Harold Mahony's time that the songwriter Sir Harold Edwin Boulton came to stay at Dromore, where he is believed to have written the words to the popular song "The Castle of Dromore," published in 1892.

House Listed: Unknown

Park Listed: Unknown

Past Seat / Home of: The Rev. Denis Mahony, 1838-51; Richard John Mahony, 19th century; Harold Segerson Mahony, late 19th-early 20th centuries. Hugh Bolton Waller, early 20th century; Waller family here until 1993.

Current Ownership Type: Corporation

Primary Current Ownership Use: Unoccupied

House Open to Public: No

Historic Houses Member: No