Cappoquin House

Cappoquin House (also Belmont House called Irish Teach Cheapach Choinn ) is a country house in classic style over the city Cappoquin in Ireland County Waterford . The 18th century house is the seat of the Keane family , Baronets of Belmont and of Cappoquin.

Former castle

It is believed that the manor was built on the site of an earlier Fitzgerald castle, first mentioned in 1598, inhabited by a Mr Hayles and destroyed by Thomas Fitzgerald of Cappagh , who presumably forfeited it in the Desmond Rebellions . In 1641, Captain Hugh Croker lived in the castle for the Earl of Cork and in 1643 successfully withstood an attack by the Catholic Confederates and General Purcell . But he had to surrender to James Tuchet, 3rd Earl of Castlehaven in 1645 . The castle was later taken by Oliver Cromwell in 1649 . Nothing of the castle has survived to this day except for a wall with a narrow entrance to a garden when the property was mapped in 1918.

Country house

The house you can see today was built in 1779. It is said to have been planned by John Roberts , a well-known architect from Waterford . The building is a built-in, two-story house with a basement and seven Jochen , which is surrounded by formal gardens and a landscape landscaped estate. Gardens and landscape park are open to the public. The house burned down during the Civil War in 1923 , but Sir `` John Keane, 5th Baronet '' had it fully restored as economically as possible with the direct intervention of workers. He had a flat concrete roof put on, using a technique developed by Waller called Nofrango .

Individual evidence

^ Historic Environment Viewer . Ordnance Survey Ireland - Government of Ireland. Retrieved May 23, 2019.
^ ^A ^b History of the Houses . In: Cappoquin House and Gardens . Archived from the original on October 12, 2018. Retrieved May 23, 2019.
↑ Main Record - County Waterford (Cappoquin House, Cappoquin, County Waterford) . In: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage . Retrieved May 23, 2019.

Web links

Official website of Cappoquin House and Gardens. Retrieved May 23, 2019.
Tag Archives: Cappoquin House: Exactly as intended . The Irish Aesthete. Retrieved May 23, 2019.

52.149 -7.85Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 56.4 ″ N , 7 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ W.

[HistoricEnvironmentViewer-1] Historic Environment Viewer . Ordnance Survey Ireland - Government of Ireland. Retrieved May 23, 2019.

[History-2] A ^b History of the Houses . In: Cappoquin House and Gardens . Archived from the original on October 12, 2018. Retrieved May 23, 2019.

[BOI-3] Main Record - County Waterford (Cappoquin House, Cappoquin, County Waterford) . In: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage . Retrieved May 23, 2019.