{"id":359376,"date":"2026-03-22T13:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T13:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/359376\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T13:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T13:44:13","slug":"mary-osullivan-meets-the-keogh-family-of-whitestown-house-in-dublin-for-my-favourite-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/359376\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary O&#8217;Sullivan meets the Keogh family of Whitestown House in Dublin for my favourite room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nAs a young boy Jimmy Keogh dreamed of owning Whitestown, a grand period house in his native village of Naul, Co Dublin. His dream came true and now his wife and daughters are honouring his memory with their special brand of entertaining\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kelly, Hazel and Aoife Keogh outside Whitestown House, in Naul, Co Dublin. Photo: Tony Gavin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/SN TG LEOGH ROOM 6.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Kelly, Hazel and Aoife Keogh outside Whitestown House, in Naul, Co Dublin. Photo: Tony Gavin<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A stag\u2019s head \u2013 that symbol of power and majesty \u2013 is a staple of the decor in the hall of a grand house, usually one of many trophies snaffled by a remote ancestor and passed down through the generations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The stags\u2019 heads in the wonderful period home of the Keogh family in Naul \u2013 Whitestown House \u2013 are not heirlooms. They\u2019re very much the work of the current family, or more specifically their husband\/dad Jimmy who was not born in the house and didn\u2019t inherit it, but rather bought it in the 1990s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a young boy Jimmy Keogh dreamed of owning Whitestown, a grand period house in his native village&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,6361,6360],"class_list":{"0":"post-359376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-life-magazine","12":"tag-mary-osullivan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}