{"id":2215,"date":"2015-03-28T12:09:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T12:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kildare.ie\/ehistory\/?p=2215"},"modified":"2025-10-29T11:49:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T11:49:18","slug":"owned-shell-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/owned-shell-house\/","title":{"rendered":"OWNED \u201cSHELL\u201d HOUSE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><b><em>LEINSTER LEADER<\/em> 6 January 1968<\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>OWNED \u201cSHELL\u201d HOUSE<\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Miss Elizabeth O\u2019Beirne, who lived in a Dublin hospital, died\u00a0on Wednesday of last week lived with her sister at \u201cShell\u201d House, the cottage decorated with sea shells which has become a well-known landmark on the Kildare Monasterevan road and is situated about a mile outside Kildare. Mainly through the efforts of Miss O\u2019 Beirne the entire exterior of the house was covered with neatly arranged designs made of sea shell which were gathered from beaches in Ireland and England and also during continental holidays.<\/p>\n<p>The late Miss O\u2019Beirne was a member of one of Ireland\u2019s great patriotic families and one of her ancestors, Capt. M. O\u2019Beirne, was leader of the Nurney insurgents in 1798. She and her sister Agnes were born at Harristown near Nurney. Agnes is now the only surviving member of the family. The funeral took place on Friday from St. Brigid\u2019s Parish Church, Kildare, to the family burial ground at Nurney.<\/p>\n<p>Re-typed by Lynn Potts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEINSTER LEADER 6 January 1968\u00a0 OWNED \u201cSHELL\u201d HOUSE\u00a0 Miss Elizabeth O\u2019Beirne, who lived in a Dublin hospital, died\u00a0on Wednesday of last week lived with her sister at \u201cShell\u201d House, the cottage decorated with sea shells which has become a well-known landmark on the Kildare Monasterevan road and is situated about a mile outside Kildare. Mainly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-built-heritage"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Kildare Local Studies","author_link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/author\/localstudies\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8002,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions\/8002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}