Drumcondra Castle

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Drumcondra Castle ( Irish Caisleán Dhroim Conrach ) is a castle in the northern Drumcondra district of the Irish capital Dublin . Today an asylum for the blind is housed in the Elizabethan- style house.

history

James Bathe , a County Meath man , had Drumcondra Castle built around 1560 on ecclesiastical land given to him. The property belonged to his family for many years.

In 1591 Sir William Warren , who had married the widow of John Bathe, resided at the castle. It was there that Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone , married his bride Mabel Bagenal after he ran away with her.

In 1677 King James II of England and James VII of Scotland loaned the lands of Drumcondra Castle to a certain Giles Martin . In 1703, Captain Chichester Philips bought the property. In 1870 it became St. Joseph's Home for the Blind Men when the Carmelites were awarded the lands of Drumcondra Castle. The Rosminians were commissioned by the Archbishop of Dublin in 1955 to run St. Joseph's Home and School in Drumcondra for the blind; since 2012 the facility has been called ChildVision . In 2014 the Rosminian Order sold the lands to St. Joseph, but leased the houses and other buildings from them for 25 years for ChildVision's use . The settlement Grace Park Woods was built on the former lands of St. Joseph.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kevin Condon CM: The Missionary College of All Hallows (1842-1891) . All Hallows College, Dublin. Retrieved October 26, 2018.
  2. ↑ Jack Fagan: Religious Order to sell 17 acre campus in Drumcondra . In: Irish Times, Commercial Property . September 17, 2014. Retrieved October 26, 2018.

Coordinates: 53 ° 22 ′ 12.8 "  N , 6 ° 14 ′ 47.1"  W.