What is "strathmore"

Strathmore, from the Scottish Gaelic for large valley (see strath), can refer to a number of people, places in Scotland, or places named by Scottish emigrants:

Strathmore is a cultural and artistic venue and institution in North Bethesda, Maryland, United States. Strathmore was founded in 1981 and consists of two venues: the Mansion and the Music Center.

The Strathmore arts complex is connected to an upper floor of the parking garage at the Grosvenor-Strathmore Washington Metro station via an elevated pedestrian walkway, the Carlton R. Sickles Memorial Sky Bridge, named after late Congressman Carlton R. Sickles. The complex is thus accessible for patrons coming from Washington, D.C., as well as the northern part of Montgomery County, Maryland via the Metro rail system.

Strathmore is a mansion in Killiney, Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown in Ireland, and formerly the Official residence of the Canadian Ambassador to Ireland.

The house dates from the 1860s and was designed by Dublin-born Irish architect Alfred Gresham Jones and was extensively remodeled in the late 1940s by British architect Oliver Hill. It is located south of Dublin City Centre, from Killiney DART station. Strathmore is approximately in area.

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