Moore Hall, Co. Mayo

Moore Hall, or Moorehall, the house and estate of George Henry Moore and family, is situated to the south of the village Carnacon in the barony of Carra, County Mayo in a karst limestone landscape. The Moores were an aristocratic Irish family who built Moore Hall between 1792 and 1795. The first Moore of Moore Hall was George Moore, a name borne by many members of the family down the generations. The Moores were originally an English Protestant family but some became Catholic when John Moore married a Roman Catholic, Jane Lynch Athy of Galway, and when their son, George, married Katherine de Kilikelly (a.k.a. Kelly), an Irish-Spanish Catholic, in 1765.

The ruins of the Moore family's large stately home, Moore Hall, lie on Muckloon Hill overlooking Lough Carra. The house was designed by John Roberts, an architect from Waterford who also designed Tyrone House in County Galway, and Waterford Cathedral. Several members of the Moore family played major parts in the social, cultural and political history of Ireland from the end of the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. The house was burned down in 1923 by anti-Treaty irregular forces during the Irish Civil War as Maurice Moore was viewed as pro-Treaty.

Notable Moores include:

Moore Hall house was burned down on 1 February 1923 during the Irish Civil War. An account of the burning was given shortly afterwards by the owner in a letter to the press.

The house, lake, farm, and estate is now owned by the forestry company, Coillte, and it is popular with visitors to the area. The house is not open to the public due to its poor condition – it has not been refurbished since it was burned. The estate is a haven of native forestry grown over the farm walls and buildings behind the ruins of the grand house. Local people who lived and worked on the Moore Hall estate remember it fondly. The estate passed to the Irish Land Commission upon the death of George Moore, and a campaign to restore the house has been waged.

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