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Westport Lodge, Castlebar Street, Westport, County Mayo

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What is Westport Lodge?

Recent photograph of the Sacred Heart School, formerly Wesport Lodge (see Sacred Heart School Westport)

Overlooking the Carrowbeg River, about one mile from Westport House, George Moore wrote from Westport Lodge 1915-1917. He was there visiting his friend and former property manager Thomas Fair Ruttledge (1855-1925), who owned the Lodge until his death.

Ordinance survey of Westport Lodge in the late 19th century (courtesy of Professor Patrick Duffy)

Constructed in the early 1800s, the Lodge was sold in 1925 and converted into the Sacred Heart School.

Aerial photograph of te Sacred Heart School/Westport Lodge in the 1950s (courtesy of Mr. James Kelly, Westport Historical Society)

James Arthur O’Connor’s landscape of the area, with a view of Croagh Patrick, was painted about half a mile from Westport Lodge around the time the Lodge was built.

Town of Westport and Clew Bay, County Mayo (1825), by James Arthur O-Connor (see V&A)

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