Robert French - Clonhugh, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath

From the moving statue of King Billy to a big, a very big, house outside Mullingar in County Westmeath. This large building with extensions looks like yet another country house converted into a convent or school. Am I right?..Morning Mary I have to tell you you are wrong! Within minutes Niall McAuley ( /photos/gnmcauley/ ) told us that the house is currently a private dwelling. Messers French and Lawrence are also incorrect with their spelling, it is in fact Clonhugh not Clonugh as on the face of the photograph. ..I love the story posted by BeachcomberAustralia ( /photos/beachcomberaustralia/ ) from 1891, under the heading ..DOG BITES LORD GREVILLE..Lord Greville, I am sorry to learn, was bitten the other day by a dog at Clonhugh, his lordship's seat in County Westmeath. .The popular peer left Ireland immediately, and travelled "right away" to Paris, there to place himself under the care of M. Pasteur. By this time I hope he is completely cured...........We are presuming that he visited the one and only Louis Pasteur ( Louis_Pasteur ) who discovered pasteurisation and also developed a vaccination for anthrax and rabies, again we are presuming the rabies jabs were the object of the dash to Paris by Lord Greville...Photographer: Robert French..Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection ( http://catalogue.nli.ie/Collection/vtls000313414 ) ..Date: Catalogue range c.1865-1914. Likely 1870s..NLI Ref: L_ROY_05226 ( vtls000322202 ) ..You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie ( http://catalogue.nli.ie )