Drumcondra House

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Drumcondra House ( Irish Teach Dhroim Conrach ) is a town house in the northern district of the Irish capital Dublin . Today it is part of the DCU All Hallows Campus .

history

Sir Marmaduke Coghill (1673-1738) had the house designed and built in 1726 by the architect Edward Lovett Pearce . He had previously lived in Belvedere House (not to be confused with the younger Belverdere Hotel ), which is now part of the DCU St. Patrick's Drumcondra campus . Coghill moved to Drumcondra House, where he lived with his sister Mary until his death. The house was known for its beautiful gardens.

Charles Moore, 2nd Lord Tullamore and later Earl of Charleville , who was married to a niece of Marmaduke Coghill, lived in Drumcondra House . After the death of her husband, this niece married a second time, Major John Mayne , who took the name "Coghill" and was made a baronet.

The Countess of Charleville leased it to Alderman Alexander Kirkpatrick of Dublin Corporation , a former high sheriff . Irish rebellion rioters in 1798 were believed to have been hung from a tree in the grounds of Drumcondra House.

Soldier Major General Sir Guy Campbell, 1st Baronet ECB, was the last occupant of the house; he had rented it from the Coghill family.

In 1842, Drumcondra House was rented to a Catholic priest named Father John Hand , who established All Hallows College there. It was operated by the Vincentian Order and is now part of Dublin City University (DCU).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of Clonturk . Fairview Marino History.
  2. ↑ Kevin Condon CM: The Missionary College of All Hallows (1842-1891) . All Hallows College, Dublin. Retrieved October 26, 2018.
  3. ^ Drumcondra House and All Hallows College . Dublin Public Libraries. August 4, 2010. Archived from the original on June 5, 2011. Retrieved October 26, 2018.

Coordinates: 53 ° 22 ′ 15.7 "  N , 6 ° 14 ′ 57.3"  W.