- Frenchpark
Infobox Irish Place
name = Frenchpark
gaeilge = Dún Gar
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pin coords = left: 43px; top: 38px
north coord = 53.8667 | west coord = 8.4 | irish grid = M737908
area = | elevation = 82 m
province =Connacht
county =County Roscommon
population = | town pop = 358 | rural pop = 793
census yr = 2002
web = |Frenchpark ( _ga. Dún Gar) is a village in
County Roscommon , Ireland. It was the home ofDouglas Hyde , the firstPresident of Ireland . The nearby French Park Estate was until 1952 the ancestral seat of the French family, Barons de Freyne. Upon the sale of the estate to the Irish Land Commission the palatial manor house of great architectural distinction was senselessly de-roofed in 1953 and finally completely dismantled in the mid 1970´s. An historic smokehouse on the former estate is now one of the very few remaining buildings.The loss of the historic house at French Park must be said to be one of the most regrettable of its kind in the Republic of Ireland since the foundation of the Irish Free State in 1922.ee also
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List of towns in the Republic of Ireland
*Market Houses in the Republic of Ireland
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