Frenchpark
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| Frenchpark Dún Gar |
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| Irish grid reference M737908 |
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| Province: | Connacht | |
| County: | County Roscommon | |
| Elevation: | 82 m | |
| Population (2002) - Town: - Environs: |
358 793 |
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Frenchpark (Irish: Dún Gar) is a village in County Roscommon, Ireland. It was the home of Douglas Hyde, the first President of Ireland. The nearby French Park Estate was until 1952 the ancestral seat of the French family, Barons de Freyne. Upon the sale of the estate to the Irish Land Commission the palatial manor house of great architectural distinction was senselessly de-roofed in 1953 and finally completely dismantled in the mid 1970´s. An historic smokehouse on the former estate is now one of the very few remaining buildings. The loss of the historic house at French Park must be said to be one of the most regrettable of its kind in the Republic of Ireland since the foundation of the Irish Free State in 1922.
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