Strathmore is a mansion

Mansion

A mansion is a very large dwelling house. U.S. real estate brokers define a mansion as a dwelling of over . A traditional European mansion was defined as a house which contained a ballroom and tens of bedrooms...

 in Killiney

Killiney

Killiney is a suburb of Dublin in south County Dublin, Ireland. It is within the administrative area of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County. The area is by the coast, south of neighbouring Dalkey, and north to Shankill area in the most southern outskirt of Dublin....

, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown

Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown

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, County Dublin

County Dublin

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 in the Republic of Ireland

Republic of Ireland

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, and formerly the official residence

Official residence

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 of the Canadian ambassador to Ireland.

The house dates from the 1860s and was designed by Alfred Gresham Jones and was extensively remodeled in the late 1940's by Oliver Hill

Oliver Hill (architect)

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. It is located 10 miles (16.1 km) south of Dublin City Centre, 200 yards (182.9 m) from Killiney DART station. Strathmore is approximately 760 square metres (909 sq yd) in area.

Strathnore sits on a 3.654 hectares (9 acre) triangular piece of land surrounded mostly by Strathmore Road, but faces Killiney Hill Road. It features views of Killiney Bay, Sugar Loaf Mountain, and northern County Wicklow

County Wicklow

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. The grounds vary from formal gardens, walled gardens, extensive wooded areas to magnificent open parkland at the lower level.

The mansion purchased by the Government of Canada

Government of Canada

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 in 1957 for C$54,000, served as the Canadian ambassadorial residence for fifty years and was sold for C$17.6 million in 2008, despite lobbying against the sale by former ambassadors and Irish diaspora groups in Canada.