Ballynatray House,Ballynatray Estate,Banks of River Blackwater,Youghal,Co.Cork.

The first recorded house was built in the early part of the 17th.Century by Sir Richard Smyth,,,,,, The House described as a" Castellated Dwelling" was virtually destroyed in 1645,,,, and later Re-Built several times by successive generations until it took it's present appearance,,,, A Georgian Mansion as re- modelled by Grice Smyth in 1795-97,,, it remained in his family until the end of the 20th. Century,,,,,The surrounding landscape was designed in the first quarter of the 19th. Century,,,, During which time a Causway was built connecting Dairiuis,where Molana Abbey is built to the shore East and West,,,,, the effect is a Romantic and Picturesque circuit from House and Garden,,,,,, Mrs. Mary Grice Smyth,Romanticised the Abbey with inscriptions Commemorating Mael An Faidh and Raymond le Gros.                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

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