Mount Loftus

Mount Loftus

A country estate in Powerstown in County Kilkenny, Ireland. Originally home to the Loftus Baronets the baronetcy being extinct since the death of the third Baronet in 1864. A splendid set of entrance gates by William Turner of Stephen's Green can be seen on approach to the house.[1]

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