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Tynan Abbey in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, was a large neo-gothic-romantic country house built c. 1750 (later renovated c. 1815) and situated outside the village of Tynan. It was home to the Stronge family until 1981, when it was bombed; its ruins were demolished in 1998, having stood for 249 years. ==History== The house on this site that replaced the original 13th-century abbey was called ''Fairview'' and was the home of the Manson family, it was acquired by the Stronges through the marriage of Dr. John Stronge and Elinor Manson. At this time ''Fairview'' was described by Thomas Ashe as a "very pretty house, well timbered and regularly built. It is two stories high. There are good chambers and garrets above staires, a hansome parlour, a common Hall, a Kitchen Sellars and their Convenient Offices a Good Stable Barne and Cow house a Good Garden and Orchard". The library, in which the last of the Stronges were killed, was believed to have dated to this original house.〔"Buildings of County Armagh", Brett, Sir Charles E.B., 1999, p. 88-90, ISBN 0-900457-54-6〕 This was an area with a peculiar history; its 1640s rector Robert Maxwell told pamphleteers that 154,000 Protestants had been massacred there in the 1649 Rising. This figure would have represented one-tenth of the entire island of Ireland (historians put the number of Protestants killed at somewhere between 527 and 1,259; many hundreds of Catholics were killed in reprisals by the Protestant incomers). This figure was used by Oliver Cromwell as the basis for his invasion of Ireland during the English Civil War.〔(History of Tynan Abbey ), books.google.ie; accessed 17 October 2015.〕 The building of the house called Tynan Abbey (as Fairview would become) took place under the ownership of the Stronges. By 1816 Mrs Calvert, the mother-in-law of Sir James Stronge, 1st Bt., described the house, which was under construction, as "very ugly...I don't think I shall ever like the house...I have a comfortable enough room...all the other rooms are unfinished and even without windows...the staircase without banisters and all about unfinished". By 1822 Mrs Calvert thought Tynan Abbey "very pretty and the place very nice, but somewhat exposed".〔 By 1838 George Petrie of the Ordnance Survey described it as a "fine specimen of bastard and vile gothic architecture."〔 In 1855, however, Sir Bernard Burke said it has a "picturesque appearance". One hundred years after this assertion Tynan Abbey was still being pondered upon; Richard Hayward questioned its "dubious...architectural integrity, but mellowed by time, humanised by generations of affectionate occupancy."〔 Tynan included an octagonal stone spire and square turret (resembling a chapel), in reality this merely housed the water tanks.〔 The castle was surrounded by an extensive estate, once amounting to over 8,000 acres (32 km²),〔(Landowner's of County Tyrone )〕 including park-land and a lake. Although there is a wealth of Celtic crosses on the site it seems there was never an abbey proper in the vicinity.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tynan Abbey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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