Qualla: Newhall House and Estate https://qualla.com/newhall-house-and-estate en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/s/newhall-house-and-estate-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Newhall House and Estate https://qualla.com/newhall-house-and-estate Newhall House and Estate: Introduction https://qualla.com/newhall-house-and-estate/ Photo credit Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0. Every seven years, according to local belief, the waters of Killone Lake turn red. The red is said to be the blood of a mermaid - wounded once by an O'Brien wine thief and his servants, who scalded her with boiling water - and the lake's discolouration foretells a change in the occupants of Newhall House on the shore above it. The mermaid's curse, recorded as: "As the mermaid goes on the sea, so shall the race of O'Briens pass away, till they leave Killone in wild weeds," sounds like the kind of story Irish gentry made up about their own estates. The strange thing about Newhall is that the O'Briens did pass away from here, eventually, and the wild weeds did come.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/s/newhall-house-and-estate-wp/gc3s-newhall-house-and-estate-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Newhall House and Estate: From Abbey Stones https://qualla.com/newhall-house-and-estate/ Photo credit SKIBLY101, CC BY-SA 4.0. Newhall was built from a stolen abbey. The historic core of the house, constructed beginning in 1650, is said to have been raised from stones taken out of Killone Castle, a medieval fortification that stood on the same estate and is now entirely vanished. In 1544, Henry VIII had ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/s/newhall-house-and-estate-wp/gc3s-newhall-house-and-estate-from-abbey-stones.mp3 0:06 2 full Newhall House and Estate: Lord Clare and the Wars https://qualla.com/newhall-house-and-estate/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. Bogman assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 2.5. Daniel O'Brien, 3rd Viscount Clare, owned Newhall during the middle 17th century. The viscount was a Catholic Jacobite who lost everything when William of Orange defeated James II - the lands forfeited, the title attainted, the family exiled to France. The complications of inheri...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/s/newhall-house-and-estate-wp/gc3s-newhall-house-and-estate-lord-clare-and-the-wars.mp3 0:06 3 full Newhall House and Estate: The Georgian Front https://qualla.com/newhall-house-and-estate/ Photo credit Wolfgang Sauber, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 1764, Charles MacDonnell - whose father James had married into the O'Brien family - purchased Newhall from his maternal uncle, Sir Edward O'Brien, 2nd Baronet of Dromoland Castle. Charles MacDonnell promptly married Sir Edward's daughter Katherine, keeping the property within ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/s/newhall-house-and-estate-wp/gc3s-newhall-house-and-estate-the-georgian-front.mp3 0:06 4 full Newhall House and Estate: Soldiers and Heirs https://qualla.com/newhall-house-and-estate/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. Bogman assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 2.5. Charles MacDonnell's son, also Charles, born 1761, was the kind of restless Anglo-Irish landed gentleman whose career could only be assembled from fragments. He was appointed lieutenant-colonel commandant of the Earl of Belvedere's regiment in 1794. During the American War he had...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/s/newhall-house-and-estate-wp/gc3s-newhall-house-and-estate-soldiers-and-heirs.mp3 0:06 5 full Newhall House and Estate: The Land Acts https://qualla.com/newhall-house-and-estate/ Photo credit Public domain. In 1912 Charles R.A. MacDonnell transferred 3,485 acres of tenanted land and 256 acres of untenanted land to the Congested Districts' Board for a sum exceeding £26,000. This was a typical late-Edwardian Irish land transaction: the Land Acts that ran through the 1880s, 1890s, and ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/s/newhall-house-and-estate-wp/gc3s-newhall-house-and-estate-the-land-acts.mp3 0:06 6 full Newhall House and Estate: The View and the Lake https://qualla.com/newhall-house-and-estate/ Photo credit Photograph Tobias Helfrich, March 27th, 2004. Modified by Pumbaa, 09:09, 7 April 2006 (UTC), CC BY-SA 3.0. A 19th-century description of Newhall calls it "a convenient, and not unpicturesque edifice, built of red brick with cut limestone accents, standing upon an eminence, commanding a magnificent view of the River Fergus and broad waters of the Shannon." Two lakes and romantic island...

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