Classiebawn Castle

Classiebawn Castle is a country house built for The 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865) on what was formerly a 10,000-acreestate on the Mullaghmore peninsula near the village of Cliffoney, County Sligo, in the Republic of Ireland.

The castle was inherited by The Rt. Hon. Edwina, Countess Mountbatten of Burma in July 1939 who, with her husband Admiral of the Fleet The 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, made a number of improvements, installing electricity and a mains water supply. After his wife's death in February 1960, Lord 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 IRA in August 1979.