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Ashford Castle

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Ashford Castle stands on the shore of Lough Corrib in County Mayo, Ireland, begun in 1228 by the Anglo-Norman de Burgo family as a fortified structure built into the edge of an earlier monastic site. The brewing magnate Sir Benjamin Guinness purchased the estate in 1852 and added two large Victorian extensions, and his son Arthur Guinness, later Lord Ardilaun, further enlarged the castle with a new west wing designed by the architects James Franklin Fuller and George Ashlin between 1875 and 1881, adding battlements across the building to unify its medieval and Victorian sections into a single Gothic Revival composition. The estate was first converted into a hotel in 1939, and after a series of later owners it was extensively restored by Red Carnation Hotels and reopened in 2015. It now operates as a five-star hotel while retaining the layered medieval and Victorian fabric of its earlier centuries.

Facts
Building Type
Castle and hotel 1
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
Cong, Ireland 2
Completed YearSourced to the subject's own account
1228 2
Building Type
Building Type (category)
Castle 1
Building Type (category)
Hotel 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Connections

Has Building Type

Castle, Concepts
Hotel, Concepts

In Style

Gothic Architecture, Styles and Movements
Source Ashford Castle, Wikipedia
Victorian Architecture, Styles and Movements
Source Ashford Castle, Wikipedia

Uses Element

Limestone, Architectural Materials
Source Ashford Castle, Wikipedia
In the Other Atlases

Located In

Ireland

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is located.

Source Ashford Castle, Wikipedia
United Kingdom

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Sources
1. Ashford Castle, Wikipedia
  • Infobox: building_type
    Hotel
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    Ashford Castle stands on the shore of Lough Corrib in County Mayo, Ireland, begun in 1228 by the Anglo-Norman de Burgo family as a fortified structure built into the edge of an earlier monastic site. The brewing magnate Sir Benjamin Guinness purchased the estate in 1852 and added two large Victorian extensions, and his son Arthur Guinness, later Lord Ardilaun, further enlarged the castle with a new west wing designed by the architects James Franklin Fuller and George Ashlin between 1875 and 1881, adding battlements across the building to unify its medieval and Victorian sections into a single Gothic Revival composition. The estate was first converted into a hotel in 1939, and after a series of later owners it was extensively restored by Red Carnation Hotels and reopened in 2015. It now operates as a five-star hotel while retaining the layered medieval and Victorian fabric of its earlier centuries.
  • Uses Element: Limestone, infobox material field: limestone
  • In Style: Gothic Architecture, infobox architectural_style field: Gothic, Victorian
  • In Style: Victorian Architecture, infobox architectural_style field: Gothic, Victorian
  • In Group: Hotels and Grand Hotels, Lead paragraph
    The castle has been expanded over the centuries and turned into a five star hotel.
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2. Ashford Castle (Wikidata)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Wikidata date-of-opening/inception statement (1228)
    Wikidata item Q725274, property P571: 1228
  • Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Cong, Ireland
    Wikidata item Q725274, property P131/P17 (location): Cong, Ireland
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Wikidata: Ashford Castle
Wikidata Q24660814, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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