Caledon House, also called Caledon Castle, is a
country house
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An English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside. Such houses were often owned by individuals who also owned a Townhou ...
near the town of
Caledon, County Tyrone
Caledon () is a small village and townland (of 232 acres) in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is in the Clogher Valley on the banks of the River Blackwater, Northern Ireland, River Blackwater, 10 km from Armagh. It lies in the southeast ...
, Northern Ireland. Caledon House sits on the private 3,000-acre woodland estate of the
Earls of Caledon
Earl of Caledon, of Caledon, County Tyrone, Caledon in the County of Tyrone, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1800 for James Alexander, 1st Earl of Caledon, James Alexander, 1st Viscount Caledon. He was a merchant who had ...
. For more than 200 years, the estate has been maintained as the private home of the aristocratic Alexander family.
Terrorism
Caledon Castle was attacked multiple times during
The Troubles
The Troubles () were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland conflict, it began in the late 1960s and is usually deemed t ...
.
Contemporary
In 2015, Caledon Castle was opened to the public for first time in twenty years.
See also
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Listed building
In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Hi ...
References
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Buildings and structures in County Tyrone
Grade A listed buildings