Lucan Manor
{{Short description|Georgian-Palladian house in Dublin, Ireland}}
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| location_town = Lucan, Dublin
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| material = granite and pebble dash
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| architect = William Chambers
Agmondisham Vesey
James Wyatt (interior, oval office and sarsfield monument)
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Lucan Manor is a Georgian-Palladian house and estate in Lucan, County Dublin. A manor house, it is remembered particularly for its association with the Sarsfield family. A castle or house has been recorded on the site since at least the 12th century.
History
Lucan manor is mentioned on the pipe roll as far back as 1272 when it was granted to Norman lords on the conquest of Ireland.{{cite web |title=Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cr0CAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22lucan+manor%22&pg=RA1-PA175 |access-date=21 September 2022 |language=en |date=1894}}{{cite web |title=Leamhcán/Lucan |url=https://www.logainm.ie/en/17131 |website=logainm.ie |access-date=21 September 2022 |language=en}}
The Sarsfield family first acquired Lucan when it was bought in 1566 by the Tudor era figure Sir William Sarsfield who passed it on to his younger son. The Manor remained in the hands of the Sarsfields until the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland when they were dispossessed of it due to Patrick Sarsfield's role in the Irish Rebellion of 1641.
It was then awarded to the Irish soldier Sir Theophilus Jones. After the Irish Restoration in 1660, the Sarsfields attempted to recover the estate. Despite their appeals being rejected in court, they were eventually able to secure its return following the intervention of Charles II.Wauchope p.2-10 There were further disputes following the death of William Sarsfield in 1675, with the manor eventually passing to his daughter, Charlotte Sarsfield, who married Agmondisham Vesey.{{cite news |title=Palladio preserved in Lucan House and demesne |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/homes-and-property/interiors/palladio-preserved-in-lucan-house-and-demesne-1.2549681 |newspaper=The Irish Times |access-date=20 September 2022 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=The River Liffey in Lucan House Demesne |url=http://onlinecollection.nationalgallery.ie/objects/8631/the-river-liffey-in-lucan-house-demesne?ctx=b9bead59-7c86-4fed-8cd7-e0b92318363b&idx=0 |website=onlinecollection.nationalgallery.ie |access-date=21 September 2022 |language=en}}
Lucan Manor was demolished in the 1770s. Its Georgian era Palladian villa replacement, Lucan House, was constructed around 1775 by Agmondisham Vesey and today still stands on the site.{{cite web |title=Lucan House, Lucan House Demesne, LUCAN DEMESNE, Lucan, DUBLIN |url=https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/11201148/lucan-house-lucan-house-demesne-lucan-demesne-lucan-dublin |website=Buildings of Ireland |access-date=19 September 2022}} Upon the death of Vesey in 1785, the house and estate passed to his son George Vesey.{{cite web |title=Lot 130 - ENGLISH SCHOOL (LATE 18TH CENTURY) |url=https://www.lyonandturnbull.com/auction/lot/130-english-school-late-18th-century/?lot=68025&sd=1 |website=www.lyonandturnbull.com |access-date=21 September 2022 |language=en}} On his death the house passed to his daughter Elizabeth Vesey and her husband Sir Nicholas Colthurst, 4th Baronet. They and their descendants then had the house from 1836 to 1921.{{cite web |title=Lucan House & Spa |url=https://www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/history-heritage/architecture/pre-1850-houses-in-south-/lucan/lucan-house-spa/ |website=www.askaboutireland.ie |access-date=22 September 2022}}
The contents of the house were sold in their entirety in September 1925 by Sir Richard St John Jefferyes Colthurst, 8th Baronet.{{Cite web |title=Palladio preserved in Lucan House and demesne |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/homes-and-property/interiors/palladio-preserved-in-lucan-house-and-demesne-1.2549681 |access-date=2024-04-24 |website=The Irish Times |language=en}}
Later, the house was acquired by Charles Hugh O'Conor, the son of Charles Owen O'Conor in the 1930s.{{cite web |title=Lucan Newsletter |url=http://www.lucannewsletter.ie/history/kings.html |website=www.lucannewsletter.ie |access-date=21 September 2022}}
The house was owned by William Teeling for a period in the 1940s when it featured in Country Life magazine.{{cite web |title=Country Life magazine on Lucan House Co. Dublin January 31st 1947 |url=https://www.rostronandedwards.com/shop/Country_Life_Magazines/lucan-house-the-property-of-mr-william-teeling-m-p |website=Rostron & Edwards |access-date=4 April 2024}}
As of 2022, the house is the residence of the Italian ambassador to Ireland. The Italian government had been renting the property since 1942 and acquired the property in 1954.{{cite web |title=Lucan-House - YCBA Collections Search |url=https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:12045 |website=collections.britishart.yale.edu |access-date=20 September 2022}}{{cite web |title=View of Lucan House - YCBA Collections Search |url=https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:12043 |website=collections.britishart.yale.edu |access-date=20 September 2022}}{{cite web |title=A collection of select views from the different seats of the nobility and gentry in the Kingdom of Ireland / engraved by Thomas Milton. From original drawings, by the best masters. - YCBA Collections Search |url=https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:3439186 |website=collections.britishart.yale.edu |access-date=20 September 2022}}
In 2023, the house was acquired by South Dublin County Council for around €15m with the Italian ambassador moving to a large house in Dartry.{{cite web |last1=O'Leary |first1=Kim |title=Lucan House bought for whopping €15m by local authority |url=https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/historic-lucan-house-bought-15m-27628505 |website=DublinLive |access-date=5 September 2023 |language=en |date=4 September 2023}}{{cite web |title=Italian embassy to pay €7.5m for six-bedroom Dartry residence |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/property/residential/2024/02/23/italian-embassy-to-pay-75m-for-six-bedroom-dartry-residence/ |website=The Irish Times |access-date=15 March 2024 |language=en}}
File:John James Barralet - View of Lucan House - B1975.2.160 - Yale Center for British Art.jpg taken from Yale Center for British Art]]
{{Commons category|Lucan House}}
References
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Bibliography
- Wauchope, Piers. Patrick Sarsfield and the Williamite War. Irish Academic Press, 1992.
{{Historic Irish houses |state=collapsed}}
Category:Buildings and structures in South Dublin (county)
Category:Demolished buildings and structures in the Republic of Ireland
Category:Buildings and structures demolished in the 1770s