The Trust in the Six Counties
Ann Hills investigates National Trust properties in Ireland being singled out for new development plans.
The National Trust in Northern Ireland owns the Giant's Causeway and the high Victorian Crown Liquor Saloon in Belfast, a clutch of stately homes, a printing press, a beetling mill (used in linen manufacture) and 6,000 acres of coast and countryside. Spending on properties this year will cost more than £2 million; visitors contribute less than £100,000.
Among estates being singled out for particular attention in new development plans is Florence Court in Fermanagh, home to the Earls of Eniskillen and described in 1786 as 'bounded by natural woods and plantations'. The eighteenth-century house has a 350-foot long façade, including colonnaded wings and pavilions. Behind them are magnificent symmetrical cobbled yards, between which servants walked, sheltered from view by a tall wall.
Among estates being singled out for particular attention in new development plans is Florence Court in Fermanagh, home to the Earls of Eniskillen and described in 1786 as 'bounded by natural woods and plantations'. The eighteenth-century house has a 350-foot long façade, including colonnaded wings and pavilions. Behind them are magnificent symmetrical cobbled yards, between which servants walked, sheltered from view by a tall wall.
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