Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 18th/19th century
Oiligh, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oiligh
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Bingham Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Bingham Castle
- Coordinates
- 54.15199, -10.08451
- SMR number
- MA024-002001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on the Mullet Peninsula, in flat pasture bordering the shoreline on the S side of Elly Harbour. This house was built in the late 1790’s/early1800’s by Denis Bingham, a younger son of the Bingham family, who settled on the Mullet Peninsula in the late 1790’s. It was built in castellated style, with a range of out-offices, including a chapel of easy (MA024-002004-), arranged around a courtyard at W, and extensive estate walls embellished with five towers (MA024-002002-; MA024-002003-; MA024-003----; MA024-004----; MA024-005----). Formal gardens, shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map, were laid out to E and S of the house. It was abandoned by the Binghams in 1925. A process of gradual demolition was begun in 1929, and only slight remains are now visible.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 28 January 2015
Nearby in the register
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - follyunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.