Dundarave House

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Dundarave is a country house in the village of Bushmills, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is currently the home to Sir Patrick Macnaghten, 11th baronet and is the Clan seat of Clan MacNaghten.

Dundarave, which was built to replace Bushmills House, was designed by the eminent architect Sir Charles Lanyon was built in 1846, a contemporary of Castle Leslie. It occupies high ground over the village of Bushmills and the coastline of North Antim, near the port of Portballintrae. The estate is made up of extensive woods, part of which allegedly were planted following the Great War to recreate the wooded area near the Somme.

Dundarave has four gate lodges, two of which date to Bushmills House (c. 1837), the latter two were also designed by Lanyon and are grander in design and proportion.

It is reputedly the larges house in Northern Ireland to still be in private occupation.