The end of an era—the auction at Johnstown Castle, 1944

By Matt Wheeler and Duncan Laurence Situated in the old Anglo-Norman Pale of south County Wexford, Johnstown Castle dates from the 1200s. After the Cromwellian confiscations, the castle was acquired by the Grogan family, whose direct descendants lived there until 1942. The estate peaked in the mid-1800s, with Hamilton Knox Grogan Morgan possessing the largest ... Read more

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