234:. He bought the Ashford estate from Lord Oranmore and Browne, the Doon estate from Sir Richard O'Donnell, the Cong estate from Alexander Lambert, part of the Rosshill estate from Lords Charlemont and Leitrim, parts of Connemara from Christopher St George. In 1859, he bought Kylemore from a banking consortium. With these purchases, Benjamin Guinness became landlord to 670 tenants, 316 of whom rented at less than £5 per annum. With his father’s death in 1868, Arthur Guinness, 2nd Baronet and oldest son and heir, continued in his father’s footsteps, purchasing vast swaths of Galway. "He bought the Elwood estate of Strandhill, just across the river from Ashford, Cong, in 1871, and Lord Kilmaine sold him the Inishdoorus islands on Lough Corrib, and lands in the barony of Ross, part of Nymphsfield near Cong in 1875. William Burke of Lisloughry was his agent". When Arthur's acquisitions were combined with those of his father, total acreage for the Ashford estate was 33,298 with the result that Lord Ardilaun owned most of County Galway between Maam (Maum) Bridge and Lough Mask.
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in 1937, keeping Sybil Hill as his residence. The corporation has preserved much of the estate as one of Dublin's most important public parks, though the house itself burnt down in 1943, with the remaining lands used for housing. The outcome of
Ardilaun's extensive tree plantings came into focus a
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company in 1876, when he sold his half-share to his brother
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See: Lough Mask Murders : Report of Commission, 1882.
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In 1902-03 Joyce also wrote literary reviews in the Irish
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Howard, Joseph Jackson; Crisp, Frederick Arthur (1898).
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former Bishop of Meath, who sold most of the estate to
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Dublin Artizans' Dwellings Company assessed in 1884
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435:Lady Olivia Charlotte Hedges-White
308:Dublin Artizan's Dwellings Company
93:Sir Benjamin Guinness, 1st Baronet
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837:Parliament of the United Kingdom
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514:Dictionary of Irish biography
421:Arms of Lord Ardilaun :
409:which was owned by Ardilaun.
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510:"Guinness, Arthur Edward"
458:All Saints Church, Raheny
323:Royal College of Surgeons
276:Congested Districts Board
232:Encumbered Estates' Court
172:"one nation" conservatism
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882:Sir Dominic Corrigan, Bt
548:Commons debate June 1869
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