SNIPPET: Built in 1795, Moore House, near Lough Carra, between Claremorris and Ballinarobe, Co. Mayo, was torched like many others for political reasons during the 1920s and remains a shell. It was the family home to a landed Catholic gentry family that produced several noteworthy individuals including George Henry MOORE (1810-1870). As an MP for Mayo and a caring landlord, he fought for the rights of his tenants. When his horse, Coranna, won the Chester Cup in 1845, he used his immense winnings to save his estate and tenants from the worst part of the famine. He imported thousands of tons of grain and gave a cow to each tenant family. It is said that no one died on the estate during the famine and no eviction was ever recorded. MOORE was educated at Oscott (a Catholic school in England) and at Cambridge. When he died, it was the poor who came from all over Mayo to his funeral. . ..