Derryquin Castle

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The mother of the author of this sketch, Letitia Bland , was born in Derryquin Castle. She married Henry Stokes , Kerry surveyor, and the Stokes family lived in Askive , near Derryquin Castle. William Stokes , a civil engineer like his father, immigrated to Chicago in 1872 , but died soon after. This sketch stayed in the family; it now belongs to the great-great-niece, Charlotte Verity , who is married to Chistopher LeBrun , President, The Royal Academy .

Derryquin Castle ( Irish Caisleán Dhoire Coinche ) was a stone country house on the Parknasilla estate in the village of Sneem on the Ring of Kerry on the Iveragh Peninsula , about 40 km southwest of Killarney in County Kerry, Ireland . The 18th century house was demolished.

description

The house, designed by local architect James Franklin Fuller , had a three-story main block, a four-story tower rising through the center, and a two-story, partially curved wing. The building had battlements and machicolations .

history

The Parknasilla property was bought by the Reverend James Bland , an Englishman who had moved to Ireland in 1692 as chaplain of Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney , the newly appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland . Bland, son of John Bland of Sedbergh in Northern England, entered St. John's College in Cambridge in 1684 (BA 1687, MA 1703), became Archdeacon of Limerick on June 1, 1693 , resigned in 1705 and became the same on July 12 Annual Archdeacon of Aghadoe . In 1711 he became treasurer of Ardfert and in 1728 dean of Ardfert. Bland sold his Yorkshire estates in 1717 . He was married to Sir Francis Brewster's eldest daughter , Alderman of Dublin .

After his death and his funeral in Killarney, the property fell to his son, the judge Nathaniel Bland (1695–1760), who in turn left it to his son, the Reverend James Bland (1727–1786). This is also inherited his son, Francis Christopher Bland (1770-1838), the High Sheriff of Kerry in 1806. From this the estate to his son, was James Franklin Bland (1799 to 1863), the 1835 High Sheriff of Kerry was . He was followed by Francis Christopher Bland (1826-1894), who was High Sheriff of Kerry in 1859 and bequeathed the estate to James Franklin Bland (1850-1927). Sir (Francis) Christopher Bland used Derryquin Castle as one of the locations his novella Ashes in the Wind is set.

In 1891 James Franklin Bland sold Derryquin Castle to the Warden family , who lived there until 1922. Then the country house was burned down by the IRA , one of over 40 historic houses in Ireland that suffered the same fate. At the time it belonged to Colonel Charles Wallace Warden . In 1969 the building was demolished. The place where the country house once stood is now on the grounds of the Parknasilla Resort and Spa Hotel , which the Bland family also had built in the 1890s.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1860s - Derryquin Castle, Sneem, Co. Kerry . Archiseek.com. Retrieved January 10, 2019.
  2. ↑ Sedbergh School Register
  3. ↑ Derryquin Castle . Lord Belmont in Northern Ireland. Retrieved January 10, 2019.
  4. ^ The Times, London, Middlesex, England - 9 Oct 1922 - REBELS 'CAMPAIGN OF DESTRUCTION . Retrieved January 10, 2019.
  5. ↑ Estate: Bland (Derryquin) . NUI Galway. Retrieved January 10, 2019.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 49 '19.2 "  N , 9 ° 52' 22.8"  W.