2-791-584 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Raleigh's House, 1844. Sir Walter Raleigh's house at Youghal in Ireland. 'It presents the ordinary appearance of the comfortable manor-house of the Elizabethan era, though it was originally a collegiate establishment, consisting of a warden, fellows, and singing men, founded in the year 1464...In the year 1603, Sir Walter Raleigh came into possession of it, and afterwards sold his interest to Sir Richard Boyle, afterwards Earl of Cork. It is now the residence of Colonel Faunt, who has given it the name of Myrtle Grove, and with judgment and good taste has made any alterations or repairs subservient to, or in keeping with, the character of the building. The walls are nearly five feet in thickness; the exterior is wainscoted all through with Irish oak, in good preservation'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol I.