Cranmore House, Belfast
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Cranmore House, Belfast
Image: © Rossographer Taken: 11 Oct 2025
The ruins of Cranmore House off the Malone Road in Belfast, now located on private land (the playing fields of RBAI Image). Cranmore is thought to be an anglicised form of the Irish "An Crann Mór" which translates as "the great tree". Thought to date from the 16th Century and the oldest house still standing in Belfast; it is believed that William of Orange, later King William III, rested here on his way to the Boyne in 1690. The house was later occupied by the botanist John Templeton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Templeton_(botanist). See also https://collections.nationalmuseumsni.org/object-hoyfm-wag-3661 which shows the house, still occupied, in 1888.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.569644
Longitude
-5.950961