Woodlawn, County Galway

Woodlawn House, about 19 km (12 mi) north-west of Ballinasloe, is the former seat of the Trench family, holders of the title Baron (Lord) Ashtown.[8] This large Italianate building was built in the late 18th century by Frederic Trench, 1st Baron Ashtown, of Moate, and extended and remodelled in the mid-19th century, following the marriage of his nephew, Frederic Mason Trench, 2nd Baron Ashtown, to his second wife, Elizabeth Oliver Gascoigne of Castle Oliver, Limerick.[5]

The house was vacated and the furnishings sold when the third Lord Ashtown became bankrupt in the 1920s, and eventually it was sold by the fourth Lord Ashtown to a cousin, Derek Le Poer Trench, in 1947. In 1973, it was sold on to a local farmer, and it changed hands further thereafter, being held by a local publican from 1989 to 2001, and then sold on with its remaining 115 acres of land.[5][9] As of 2019, and unoccupied for over 40 years, it had suffered fire damage in 1982, and been partly repaired with an emergency Heritage Council grant.[3]

It has 35,000 sq ft of space, and more than fifty rooms, with the central part comprising three storeys over a basement, and two two-storey wings.[9]

The estate also includes a family mausoleum,[8] a walled garden, an orchard, stables, two staff houses and some cottages. There is also a lake.[9]