Tuam Palace, Tuam, Co Galway 

Mark Bence-Jones. A Guide to Irish Country Houses (originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978); Revised edition 1988 Constable and Company Ltd, London.

p. 276. “The Palace of the C of I Archbishops (afterwards Bishops) of Tuam; built between 1716 and 1741 by Archbishop Edward Synge. Described 1787 by Rev Daniel Beaufort as old-fashioned and ill-contrived. Improvements carried out early c19, competed 1823, so that the papace was described (1837) as “large and handsomely built, though not possessing much architectural embellishment.”