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Charming Regency house of 1828, formerly a rectory then a hotel, then the home of painter Derek Hill (1916-2000). It's decorated with Arts & Crafts textiles, Islamic and Japanese art, and many 20th century big names. Plus extensive gardens.
Glebe House and Glebe Gallery are located just outside the town of Letterkenny near Churchill. The house was built in 1828. The English portrait and landscape painter Derek Hill lived and worked there from 1954 until he presented the house and his art collection to the Irish state in 1982. Hill's former studio has been converted into a modern gallery with changing exhibitions while his art collection is shown in his former home together with European and oriental furniture and William Morris wallpapers and fabrics. The collection includes works by Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Louis le Brocquy, Graham Sutherland, Auguste Renoir, Jack Butler Yeats, Oskar Kokoschka, Patrick Swift and the native Tory Island painter, James Dixon.
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Scottish baronial mansion built in 1870, visit by guided tour. The owner Captain John Adair was notorious for his evictions and other cruelty to his tenants. Plus extensive gardens and woodland grounds.
The oldest parts are 400 years old, but these are mostly 19th century mills powered by a 1-km millrace and two large waterwheels: one for corn (still operational), the other for flax. The enterprise kept going in the 20th century when Irish flax was subsidised. A farming and mill village also grew up, supplying produce to the Lipton grocery empire based in Glasgow.