Built / Designed For: Sir Robert Gore-Booth, 4th Bt.

House & Family History: Lissadell, a house of gray stone in the Greek Revival style, was owned by the Anglo-Irish Gore-Booth family from its erection in the 1830s until the family sold-up in 2005. William Butler Yeats was a frequent visitor to the house, primarily because he was enamored with the poet Eva Gore-Booth and her sister, the Irish nationalist Countess Constance Markievicz. Yeats wrote of the sisters and Lissadell in his 1933 poem “In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz”: "The light of evening, Lissadell / Great windows open to the south / Two girls in silk kimonos, both / Beautiful, one a gazelle." The wife of a Polish count, Countess Markievicz was pardoned from execution following the 1916 Easter Rising and went on to be the only woman elected to the Irish Parliament in the post-Independence Irish Free State. In May 2003, Lissadell and 400 acres was put on the market at an asking price of €3 million. Arthur Morgan, a Sinn Fein member of the Irish Parliament, called on the Irish government to preserve the house "as a monument to the heroine of the 1916 Rising." In 2005 the house was purchased by Edward Walsh and Constance Cassidy, who have spent over €10 million restoring Lissadell. Co. Sligo, in the Irish Republic, has become known as Yeats Country, as much of the poet's work was influenced by the surrounding landscape. On May 20, 2015 the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall visited Lissadell and unveiled a plaque to commemorate W.B. Yeats and the two Gore-Booth sisters.

Collections: Before its 2003 sale, Lissadell was the only house in Ireland to retain its original Williams & Gibton furniture (commissioned expressly for the house).

Garden & Outbuildings: In 2010 Leonard Cohen opened the Yeats Gallery on the estate. The museum contains the poet's manuscripts and paintings by his brother, Jack. The former estate manager’s house, next to the walled garden, has been converted into a holiday rental.

Country Life: CLXII, 914 plan, 1977.

House Listed: Unknown

Park Listed: Unknown

Current Seat / Home of: Edward Walsh and Constance Cassidy; here since 2005.

Past Seat / Home of: Sir Robert Gore-Booth, 4th Bt., 1833-76; Sir Henry William Gore-Booth, 5th Bt., 1876-1900; Sir Josslyn Augustus Richard Gore-Booth, 6th Bt., 1900-44; Sir Michael Savile Gore-Booth, 7th Bt., 1944-87; Sir Angus Josslyn Gore-Booth, 8th Bt., 1987-2005; Gore-Booth family here from the 1830s until 2005.

Current Ownership Type: Individual / Family Trust

Primary Current Ownership Use: Private Home

House Open to Public: Limited Access

Phone: 353-852-781-767

Email: [email protected]

Website: http://lissadellhouse.com/

Historic Houses Member: No