Clontarf Castle
| Clontarf Castle | ||
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 Clontarf Castle Hotel |
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| Alternative name (s): | Caisleán Chluain Tarbh | |
| Creation time : | 1837 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | restored and expanded | |
| Standing position : | Irish nobility | |
| Construction: | Ashlar | |
| Place: | Dublin | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 21 '54.3 " N , 6 ° 12' 17.5" W | |
| Height: | 16 m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference | |
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Clontarf Castle ( Irish Caisleán Chluain Tarbh ) is a heavily modernized castle from 1837 in the Clontarf district in the Irish capital Dublin . The area is known as the crucial site of the 1014 Battle of Clontarf . There has been a castle here since 1172. In the past few decades the building has served as a bar, cabaret venue and hotel.
history
The De Lacy family and the Templars
Either Hugh de Lacy or his tenant Adam de Phepoe had the first castle on this site, of which there is no trace today, built in 1172. Clontarf Castle later belonged to the Knights Templar and after their suppression fell to the Knights of St. John in 1308 , until the castle was taken from them when the English monasteries were dissolved . The last prior, John Rawson , was made Viscount Clontarf in 1541 for the transfer of the castle and its lands to the English crown .
16th and 17th centuries
In 1600 Queen Elizabeth I lent the property to Sir Geoffrey Fenton , her Secretary of State for Ireland; then it fell to the King family through the marriage of one of his descendants . George King of Clontarf participated in the Irish Rebellion in 1641 and as a result his lands were confiscated.
The Vernon family
With the reconquest of Ireland , the Clontarf estate was loaned to Captain John Blackwell on August 14, 1649 . Blackwell later sold his fiefdom to John Vernon , Quartermaster General in Cromwell's Army. The Vernon family would own the castle for about 300 years.
In 1660 John Vernon gave Clontarf Castle to his son, Edward Vernon . He died in 1684 and one of his sisters took possession of the castle. In 1695 a 1st cousin of Edward, also called `` John Vernon '', claimed the rights to the property and it was transferred to him by parliamentary law in 1699.
The last heir to the direct male line of the Vernons in Clontarf was Edward Kingston Vernon (1869-1967), who inherited the property after the death of his father Edward in 1913. He lived in the castle for only 6 months; then it was leased by Vernon's sister Edyth to John George Oulton and his wife Mona , the only daughter of Walter Blades Caverley . In 1933 the castle was finally sold to the Oultons.
John George Oulton, who took over the estate from the Vernons, died on April 17, 1952 in the castle, which he then bequeathed to his son Desmond , who in turn sold the estate to pay inheritance tax and other expenses.
1957-1997
The castle stood empty until 1957, when a Mrs. Egan bought her , who she sold on to Eddie Regan a little later, in the 1960s . Garry and Carmel Houlihan bought the building in 1972 and ran a well-known cabaret there until 1998.
Conversion into a hotel
In June 1997, Clontarf Castle reopened as a four-star hotel with 111 rooms.
building
The current building dates from 1837 and was designed by Irish architect William Vitruvius Morrison for John Edward Venebles Vernon , who owned the property at the time, as the previous building had been deemed unsafe.
As the Clontarf Castle Hotel , it was significantly expanded with the addition of modern wings.
Most of the property's earlier lands have long been sold as building land, but there was a little bit of space around the castle with an ornamental gatehouse on the building. Most of this is now used as guest parking.
Art, music and literature
During his stay in Dublin, George Frideric Handel was a frequent visitor to the castle at the time for the premiere of his work Messiah in 1742. At the time, Dorothy Vernon from Hanover , the lady of the house, was “particularly intimate” with the composer, who wrote a piece called Forest Music for which is said to combine German and Irish melodies. The neighboring area Dollymount is said to have been named after this lady.
Clontarf Castle was painted by William Turner although he had never visited - it is said that this was his only Irish model. Turner's patron, Walter Fawkes , was married to Maria Sophia Vernon from Clontarf and one of her sketches is said to have been the basis of the finished watercolor. The work is incorrectly referred to as "Caltarf Castle" and so the object was not identified until 1998 - it shows the castle building that stood there in front of the present one.
Some childhood memories of the castle in the early years of the 20th century appear in Cyril Connolly's Enemies of Promise . The author's mother was a member of the Vernon family.
The castle is mentioned by Phil Lynott of Irish rock group Thin Lizzy in his song The Friendly Ranger at Clontarf Castle , the first song from their 1971 debut album Thin Lizzy .
Before the castle reopened as a hotel in 1997, it was a well-known cabaret for many years: The comedians Tom O'Connor and Maureen Potter and the accordionist Dermot O'Brien published all the recordings that were recorded there. Dana was crowned Queen of Cabaret there in 1968 before winning the Eurovision Song Contest in 1970 . Construction, completed in 1997, included the construction of a new conference and banquet center, which is now home to conferences and product presentations, as well as a regular antique market; in addition, Clontarf Castle is a popular wedding venue. In 2014 the Clontarf Castle Hotel received the award for the best event hotel.
Individual evidence
- ↑ A Study of Vernon and Venables Families and Their Connections . Morris clan. ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ RA Streatfield: trade . Methuen, 1909. p. 168.
- ^ Otto Eric Deutsch: Handel, a Documentary Biography . A. & C. Black, 1955. p. 553.
- ^ Sotheby's auction catalog: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British Drawings and Watercolors . London, April 8, 1998. p. 60.
- ↑ Audrey Magee: Art expert unmasks mystery castle in The Times (London), March 19, 1998.
- ↑ Event Industry Awards 2014 Winners . Retrieved October 25, 2018.
swell
- John D'Alton: History of the County of Dublin . Dublin, 1838.
- Dennis McIntyre: The Meadow of the Bull: a History of Clontarf . Future Print, Dublin 1987.
- Vernon of Clontarf Castle in Burke's Landed Gentry of Ireland . 1912. pp. 722-723.
- A Study of Vernon and Venables Families and Their Connections . The Morris Clan. Retrieved October 25, 2018.
