Hazelwood House
Hazelwood House ( Irish Teach an Eanaigh ) is a country house on a 70 hectare estate in the municipality Calry about 2 km south east of Sligo in Ireland's County Sligo . Built in the Palladian style , the 18th-century house has been described as one of County Sligo's most neglected treasures. The house is important not only from an architectural point of view, but also from a social and historical point of view.
Hazelwood House is on a peninsula in Lough Gill east of Sligo. From the house on the wooded property you have a good view of Ben Bulben in the north. The original 6,000 acre estate ( Hazelwood Demesne ) was reduced to 32.4 acres.
description
Hazelwood House was the first Palladian house in Ireland; it was designed around 1730 by Richard Cassels , the architect who also designed Leinster House , Powerscourt House and Russborough House .
It consists of a main block with 5 x 3 yokes and three floors, as well as two-story extensions on both sides with single-story connecting pieces. The building is made of lime - stone built and has slate roofs .
Since its completion, the house has suffered decades of neglect and changes. So was z. B. In the 1870s, a two-story extension with three bays was added to the main block in the west. The main staircase was removed in the 1950s and replaced with a concrete staircase. A number of the fireplace surrounds were replaced with copies.
history
The original name of the area, "Annagh" ( Irish Eanach ), means "swamp". With him the land was referred to, which belonged to the Lords O'Conor Sligo ( Irish Ó Conchobhair Sligigh ) of the Cairbre Drom Cliabh territory.
There was an O'Conors castle which, according to O'Rorke (1889), was at Castle Point on Lough Gill south of the present house.
This area belonged to the O'Conors throughout the Middle Ages and then fell to the merchant Andrew Crean and then to Lord William Strafford in the early 17th century.
1635, during the planning for the canceled Plantation of Connacht , bought Sir Phillip Perceval the property as a shadow buyer for Lord Deputy Wentworth and Sir George Radcliffe. It was later alleged that Perceval had tricked O'Conor by stating that the property was owned by the Crown and would be settled as part of the plantation without O'Conor receiving any compensation. The resulting hostilities were the reason for the involvement of the Sligo nobility in the 1641 rebellion .
In 1687 the property fell to Thomas Wilson and in 1722 to the Wynnes.
The Wynne family
Lieutenant General Owen Wynne, a descendant of the Welsh family Wynne from Merionethshire , the property bought in 1722. In addition to the 5,800 hectares of the estate included the purchase is subject also extensive land in the suburbs vcn Sligo to hold together with the rights, exhibitions and markets and to raise road tolls .
After his death in 1737, the property fell to his nephew, who was also called Owen Wynne, an army officer and lived from 1686 to 1755. He was followed by his son, another Owen Wynne, who was High Sheriff of Sligo in 1723 and 1745. Then the house fell to the son of the latter, who was again called Owen Wynne according to family tradition, lived from 1723 to 1789 and was a member of Parliament for County Sligo and a member of the Irish Privy Council. His eldest son, the fifth Owen Wynne, lived from 1755 to 1841, inherited the house after his father's death and was also a Member of Parliament for County Sligo and High Sheriff. He was in turn followed by his son John Arthur Wynne (1801–1865); he was a Member of Parliament for the Sligo area and in 1840 high sheriff. The sixth Owen Wynne (1843-1910) was John Arthur's son and heir, and sheriff in 1874.
The sixth Owen Wynne was the last Wynne to live in Hazelwood House; he died in 1910 without a male heir. His daughter Murial and her husband Philip Dudley Percival then lived in the house. They gradually sold the cattle and farm equipment and eventually left Hazelwood House in 1923.
Recent history
The house then stood empty until 1930, when a retired tea planter named Berridge lived there and had repairs and renovations carried out on the house until he sold it together with the property to the Land Commission and the State Forestry Department in 1937.
In 1940, Hazelwood House housed the Irish Army's 12th Cyclist Squad; the house was their barracks until January 1945.
In 1946 the property was sold to the Ministry of Health for use as a psychiatric hospital.
Around 1969 the house was sold again, this time to the Italian company SNIA SpA, who used it as part of their nylon yarn production that they built behind the house. The factory was closed in 1983 and bought in 1987 by the South Korean company SeaHan Media , which manufactured video cassettes on the premises until 2005 .
The property was sold to a local consortium, Foresthaze Developments, in April 2006 for between € 7 million and € 10 million. In 2007 it applied for a permit to re-plan the property. However, the approval was refused by the county administration and the owners were ordered to repair the masonry of the building so that it would be preserved.
The building, which has been empty since 1987, is now boarded up and in poor condition. Some parishioners want Hazelwood House and property renovated and turned into a tourist complex.
The settlement procedure was opened in October 2013 via “Foresthaze Developments” .
In 2019 the "Lough Gill Distillery" was opened on the property.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Hazelwood House, Sligo, County Sligo . National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved April 25, 2019.
- ^ A b Sylvia Thompson: Buildings at Risk: Hazelwood House, Sligo . In: The Irish Times . April 10, 2014. Retrieved April 25, 2019.
- ^ A b Brief History of Hazelwood House . Archived from the original on October 2, 2013. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
- ^ Terence O'Reilly: Hazelwood House during the Emergency Years . The Irish Story. October 4, 2018. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
- ^ Harry Keaney: Develop Hazelwood House into top tourist destination . In: The Sligo Champion . Retrieved April 26, 2019.
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Coordinates: 54 ° 15 '22.7 " N , 8 ° 26' 2.4" W.