Woodbrook House

Originally 'planted' on the Mayo-Sligo border, near Killala, the Kirkwood family is first mentioned in records in or around the time of the 1691 rebellion.

Woodbrook House became the home of the Kirkwoods in the nineteenth century, when they bought the lands from the Phibbs family.

The gate and railing at the road were erected after one of the Kirkwoods' horses, also named Woodbrook, won the Grand National in 1881, ridden by Mr Tommy Beasley and trained by Henry Linde.

Micheál Ó Súilleabháin composed a piece for piano and orchestra called "Woodbrook",[2] conceived as the soundtrack for a radio documentary called The Story of Woodbrook - David Thompson's Book,[3] produced by Julian Vignoles, which was first transmitted on RTÉ radio in 1986.

In 1946, over fifty acres was sold to the local Carrick on Shannon Golf Club while the Land Commission subsequently divided the remainder.