Plassey, County Limerick

In 1762 the townland was purchased by Thomas Maunsell (1726-1814), an East India Company officer who had served under Robert Clive at the battle of Plassey in Bengal.

Having amassed a large fortune in India, he returned to Ireland and soon after purchased land including Sreelane.

In about 1908 the house and lands were sold to William Bailey, who owned a rubber plantation in Malaysia.

Following the death of Bailey's widow in 1933, the house was acquired by Patrick Keating, a retired British Colonial civil servant.

[3] The Black Bridge in the grounds of Plassey House crosses the Shannon from Limerick (Mill Side) into County Clare.