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GoogleMapsSatellite (not 3D unfortunately) -
www.google.com/maps/@52.2499775,-7.0981287,148a,35y,316.6...

Noted top right, just this side of Waterpark College, Mr. Fanning's Swiss Cottage:

Sinead O’Connor, 5th form, 1983

Finbar Furey the singer went to school there and has a funny story about the place. The family are settled members of the traveller community and lived in south Dublin. While the lads were at school some friend from the music industry visited his father in a beautiful Rolls Royce car and explained that he was setting off to tour Ireland a visit other traditional musicians in their homes. That would involve going up some narrow roads with the grass down the middle and would pose a threat to the paintwork of the Rolls. Mr. Furey proposed loaning them his battered BMW for the trip and the guest left his Rolls for the duration. As it was end of term Mr. Furey went to collect his offspring at Newtown School in a gleaming Rolls Royce. The sight of this well known settled traveller rolling up to collect his family in this symbol of wealth and luxury was a sensation.

Monkey took at least thirteen photos of Woodpark - catalogue.nli.ie/Search/Results?lookfor=%5BWoodpark+House...

Have the horses bolted (see stable doors) as a result of Monkey swinging by? Or not yet in residence? I can't see any horse apples ...

From godolphin.com Woodpark Stud

Woodpark was purchased by the McVey Family in 1939 from Mrs Benson (the former Miss Peard, a name long associated with Phoenix Park Racecourse). Over the following 30 years the McVeys stood the stallions Balidar, Bright News, Tamerlane, Tower Walk, Solferino and Sunny Way. In 1977 James McVey sold the farm to a Mr Fitzpatrick who used it as a grazing farm for cattle. Woodpark Stud was purchased from Fitzpatrick in November 1982 on behalf of H.H. Sheikh Mohammed. In April 1989 the farm transferred to H.H. Sheikh Maktoum al Maktoum's Gainsborough Stud Company. Following the death of H.H. Sheikh Maktoum in 2006, the farm transferred to the Kildangan operation on behalf of Godolphin.

Woodpark Stud is located just outside Dunboyne and it is a farm of 670 acres

There is a Big House named Woodpark on the site on the 1830s 6", but it's gone on the 1900ish 25", usually means it burned down accidentally.

Every building visible in these images would appear to have been demolished, and replaced with what is presumably an octogonal stud farm and several smaller houses.

www.archiseek.com/1875-classiebawn-mullaghmore-co-sligo/

" ... In 1916, the house was cleared and remained empty until 1950. It was inherited in July 1939 by Edwina Mountbatten, who, with her husband Admiral of the Fleet Louis Mountbatten, made several improvements, installing electricity and a mains water supply.[3] After his wife's death in February 1960, Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of India, spent his summers there until his death when his boat was blown up off the coast of Mullaghmore by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in August 1979 ... "

From - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classiebawn_Castle

Google Satellite (not 3D) is interesting -
www.google.com/maps/place/Classiebawn+Castle,+Mullaghmore...

beachcomber australia A very simple garden.

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Wind ? (!)

Another Monkey photo says "1954 September" - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000732519

Edit - Also catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000732545 which seems to be identical (?)