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Castletown House. / 53.349079; -6.530444. Castletown House, Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland, is a Palladian country house built in 1722 for William Conolly, the Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. [ 2] It formed the centrepiece of an 800-acre (320 ha) estate. The estate was sold in 1965, and later sub-divided.
Celbridge ( / ˈsɛlbrɪdʒ /; Irish: Cill Droichid [ˌciːl̠ʲ ˈd̪ˠɾˠeːdʲ]) is a town and townland on the River Liffey in County Kildare, Ireland. It is 23 km (14 mi) west of Dublin. Both a local centre and a commuter town within the Greater Dublin Area, it is located at the intersection of the R403 and R405 regional roads.
History. The house was built by Bartholomew Van Homrigh, who at the time was the Lord Mayor of Dublin, in 1697. It is, however, more famous as the childhood (1688–1707) and later adult (1714–23) home of his daughter, Esther Vanhomrigh, (1688–1723), who was Dean Swift 's 'Vanessa'. Swift was known to travel frequently to Celbridge Abbey to ...
Conolly's Folly. / 53.3690; -6.5605. The Conolly Folly ( Irish: Baois Uí Chonghaile ), a.k.a. The Obelisk, is an obelisk structure located between Celbridge, Leixlip and Maynooth in County Kildare, Ireland. It was built in the mid-18th century by the Conolly family, then owners of the Castletown Estate. It was restored in the mid-20th century ...
Kildrought House is a house of two storeys to the front elevation and three to the rear (including a basement). It is five bays wide with a central Palladian window. The building has lime-based, wet dash rendered walls. The roof is of slate tiles. There is a formal garden with brick summer house. [8]
Mount Congreve Garden, Archived 2011-08-14 at the Wayback Machine; Mount Usher Gardens, Muckross, National Garden Exhibition Centre, Newtownbarry House Gardens, Archived 2013-02-04 at the Wayback Machine; Oakfield Park, Archived 2021-07-26 at the Wayback Machine; Powerscourt Estate, Ram House Gardens,
Architect (s) Thomas Burgh. Developer. Katherine Conolly and William Conolly. Celbridge Collegiate School is a former charter school and Protestant girls school situated outside Celbridge in County Kildare in Ireland located 22 kilometres (13 miles) from Dublin. It was known as a nursery of teachers for the Church of Ireland training college ...
The former station, Cherry Orchard and Parkwest - originally simply called Cherry Orchard - opened on 16 May 1994. [1] It was closed on 27 July 2008 as part of the Kildare Route Project, [2] [failed verification] and demolished later in 2008. [3]