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A fact from Ardfry House appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 February 2026 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that when Ardfry House fell into a state of dilapidation, the 3rd Lord Wallscourt used his wife's dowry to carry out restoration work?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Did you know archive/2026/February. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ardfry House.

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Latest comment: 6 months ago5 comments3 people in discussion

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. You can locate your hook here. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Crisco 1492 (talk) 21:16, 15 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

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... that Ardfry House was built on the site of a medieval castle?

Source: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/owners-of-listed-building-in-galway-warned-against-unauthorised-work-1.1361215

- ALT1: ... that when Ardfry House fell into a state of dilapidation, the 3rd Lord Wallscourt used his wife's dowry to carry out restoration work? Source: “By 1822 the 3rd Lord Wallscourt, having squandered most of his fortune, married the celebrated beauty of the time Bessie Lock, who brought with her a dowry of £8,000, which was used to refurbish the house, which had fallen into a state of neglect and dilapidation.”
- ALT2: ... that restoration of Ardfry House in the 1820s added a number of Gothic Revival features? Source: An Introduction to the Architectural Heritage of County Galway. National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. 2011. p. 41. ISBN 978-1-4064-2534-5.
- ALT3: ... that Ardfry House was set alight when it was used as a film set for the 1973 British spy thriller The Mackintosh Man? Source: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/owners-of-listed-building-in-galway-warned-against-unauthorised-work-1.1361215
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Burton Miller

Moved to mainspace by JuneGloom07 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 96 past nominations.

JuneGloom07 Talk 02:02, 6 January 2026 (UTC).Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

Nice work. I've only reviewed ALT0 and ALT3 as I could not access the sources for the other two hooks, but ALT0 and ALT3 both look good to me. For ALT3, I will note that the source doesn't specifically give the release year for The Mackintosh Man, but that factoid is trivially citable to other sources.

If you'd like me to review ALT1 and ALT2, please provide the quotes from these sources that support the hook fact, and I'd be happy to look at these as well. Epicgenius (talk) 20:56, 6 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Epicgenius: Thank you for the review! I’ve added the relevant quote from the source for ALT1. I’m not sure if I can access the source for ALT2 at the moment (I’ve just arrived in Ireland to take new photos for the article), but I’m happy to disregard that one. -JuneGloom07 Talk 23:49, 6 January 2026 (UTC)Reply
- No problem, and thanks for the response and quote. ALT1 is good to go (along with ALT0 and ALT3, which I've previously approved). Epicgenius (talk) 00:49, 7 January 2026 (UTC)Reply