Lights out – but Lissadell sale on
The news earlier this year that Lissadell House and its 400-acre estate in Co. Sligo was on the market for the first time since its completion in the 1830s led to immediate calls to save the country seat of the Gore-Booth family for the Irish people.
On an art-historical level, the dilapidated Grecian-style mansion designed for Sir Robert Gore-Booth…