Clonalis House

Clonalis House (Irish: Teach Chluain Mhalais), Castlerea, County Roscommon is the ancestral home of the O'Conor Don, who is a direct descendant of the last High King of Ireland, Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair.

The full armorial achievement of the O'Conor Don as Chief of the Name and Prince of Cannacht.

Clonalis was constructed in 1878 by Charles Owen O'Conor as a replacement for an earlier house on the same site which was frequently damaged by flooding. Built of mass concrete, its design by the renowned Pepys Cockerell is of a mixture of styles drawing on the traditions of Italianate and Queen Anne Style architecture.

Its history reflects the turbulence of Irish history having once been occupied by the Irish Republican Army before it was shelled and captured by Free State Forces during the Irish Civil War.

Some 100,000 volumes are contained in the family archives and library of the O'Conor Don which are still held at Clonalis House, making it a valuable repository of Irish history.

External links

Clonalis House - Official Site

Historic Irish houses and castles

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See also Historic houses in Northern Ireland Historic houses in the Republic of Ireland

Connachta

Kindreds and septs

Connachta

Uí Briúin	O'Conor Don O'Conor Roe O'Conor Sligo Murtagh O'Conor MacGeraghty O'Finaghty O'Concannon MacTeige MacBrannan O'Flanagan MacDermot MacDonagh MacManus MacDockery O'Beirne O'Flaherty O'Rourke O'Reilly O'Sheridan

Uí Fiachrach	MacClellan O'Heyne O'Cleary O'Shaughnessy O'Cahill MacKilkelly O'Dowd MacFirbis O'Cann O'Coyne O'Carney O'Towey O'Gaughan O'Murray

Northern Uí Néill

Cenél Conaill	O'Donnell O'Doherty O'Gallagher Dunkeld O'Boyle O'Cannon MacMenamin

Cenél nEógain	O'Neill MacShane (Johnson) MacNeil Maclachlan Lamont MacEwen MacSweeney MacCaul O'Cahan O'Devlin O'Gillan O'Kieran O'Donnelly O'Gormley O'Brallaghan MacLoughlin

Southern Uí Néill

Clann Cholmáin & Síl nÁedo Sláine	O'Melaghlin (MacLoughlin) O'Molloy MacGeoghegan O'Higgins MacCary MacAuley

Clan Colla

Uí Maine

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O'Donnellan
O'Madden
O'Downey
O'Cleary
O'Concannon
O'Naughton
O'Mullally
MacEgan
O'Connell

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Coordinates: 53°46′00″N 8°30′00″W / 53.7667°N 8.5000°W / 53.7667; -8.5000

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