Runkerry House

Runkerry House is one of Northern Ireland’s grand country homes, a landmark Victorian-era manor overlooking the ocean near the Giant’s Causeway.
Built by Edward Macnaghten in 1885, it boasted 20 bedrooms, 5.6 hectares (14 acres) of gardens and a beautiful location by Bushfoot Strand in Portballintrae, County Antrim.
It has embodied not just grandeur but generosity because in 1950 Macnaghten’s son, Sir Malcolm Macnaghten, gifted the estate, worth £3.25m in today’s money, to Northern Ireland’s government.
But there was, it turns out, a less than philanthropic reason for such munificence. Newly declassified documents reveal Macnaghten, an MP and high court judge, wanted to keep the property out of Catholic hands.
As we passed it, it was clear that extensive renovation work was being carried out.

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