Luttrellstown Castle
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 Luttrellstown Castle |
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| Alternative name (s): | Caisleán Bhaile Lotrail | |
| Creation time : | around 1420 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | restored | |
| Standing position : | Irish nobility | |
| Construction: | Ashlar | |
| Place: | Clonsilla | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 22 '45.4 " N , 6 ° 25' 2.8" W | |
| Height: | 60 m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference | |
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Luttrellstown Castle ( Irish Caisleán Bhaile Lotrail ) is a castle in Clonsilla in County Fingal , Ireland , a suburb of the capital Dublin . The castle, which was built around 1420, belonged to several generations of the notorious family of the same name, the publisher Luke White , his descendants, the Barons Annaly , the Guinness family , the Primwest Group and, since 2006, JP McManus , John Magnier and Aidan Brooks .
Queen Victoria visited Luttrellstown Castle in 1844 and 1900, and on July 4, 1999, Victoria Adams and David Beckham were married there . Luttrellstown Castle and its remaining 2.3 km² estate is now a 5-star hotel with golf course and country club, a unique location just outside the city limits of Dublin.
owner
The Luttrell family
The Luttrell family had owned Luttrellstown since the land was awarded to Sir Geoffrey de Luterel by King John of England around 1210 . Sir Geoffrey served King John as a minister on many state missions in Ireland from 1204 to 1216 and was the ancestor of the Luttrells of Dunster Castle in Somerset , England . In the 17th century the family became the largest landowner in the county. Robert Luttrell was Treasurer of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin and Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1235 to 1245 . He married into the Plunkett family .
Sir Geoffrey Luttrell, 5th Lord Luttrell , who was born around 1385, started the construction of the castle . Sir Thomas Luttrell was 1534-1554 Chief of Justice of the Irish Common Pleas and actively involved in the dissolution of the monasteries . He acquired the lands of the Marienabbey in Coolmine .
Colonel Henry Luttrell (c. 1655 - October 22, 1717), the second son of Thomas Luttrell of Luttrellstown, was an Anglo-Irish soldier. He was suspected of betraying Irish leader Patrick Sarsfield , either by hastening the withdrawal of his Jacobite troops and / or by providing strategic information about a ford of a river to King William III's army . which led to the defeat at the Battle of Aughrim in 1691. After the siege of Limerick , Luttrell brought his regiment into the Williamite case, for which he received the forfeited lands of his older brother, Simon Luttrell , including Luttrellstown Castle, and was appointed major general of the Dutch Army. He was murdered in his litter outside his town house on Wolfstone Street , Dublin , in 1717 .
Colonel Simon Luttrell, 1st Earl of Carhampton , (1713/14 - January 14, 1787) was an Irish nobleman who became a politician in Westminster . He was the second son of Colonel Henry Luttrell of Luttrellstown and became Lord Lieutenant of County Dublin .
Henry Lawes Luttrell, 2nd Earl of Carhampton (1743-1821) was the son of Simon Luttrell, 6th Lord of Luttrell of Luttrellstown. He was a Member of Parliament for Bossiney constituency in 1768 and then adjutant general of Ireland, a position in which he was notorious for suppressing the Irish Rebellion in 1798 . He was so hated that he sold Luttrellstown Castle in 1800, but in retaliation the grave of his grandfather, Colonel Henry Luttrell (+1717) was opened and his skull was shattered. His "popularity" in Ireland is demonstrated by an incident in which the Dublin Post reported his death on May 2, 1811. Luttrell called for a revocation, which the newspaper printed, but it appeared under the heading "Public Disappointment." Luttrell was a foreign landowner who also owned lands in the West Indies , but lived in Painshill Park in Surrey , England.
His sister, Anne Luttrell (1742-1808), one of the great beauties of her time, married Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn , one of the brothers of the British King George III.
Luke White
Henry Lawes Luttrell sold Luttrellstown Castle to the publisher Luke White , who is described as one of the most remarkable men to make Ireland, and who was the ancestor of Barons Annaly. Luke White renamed Luttrellstown Woodlands to eradicate the Luttrell name, but his great-grandson, 3rd Baron Annaly, reverted to the name Luttrell Castle.
In 1778, Luke White started out as a penniless bookseller, shopping in Dublin and selling across the country. In 1798, during the Irish Rebellion, he helped the Irish government out with a £ 1 million loan (£ 65 per £ 100 share at 5%). He became a Member of Parliament for County Leitrim and died in 1824, leaving estates making £ 175,000 a year.
Lord Annaly
Later the property fell to his fourth son, who was raised to Lord Annaly, a member of the British aristocracy.
Visits from Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria first visited Luttrellstown Castle in 1844 on her way to the Duke of Leinster at Carton House . In 1900, on the way to Viceregal Lodge, she had a cup of tea by the property's waterfall , an event that Lord Annaly had an obelisk built from six granite blocks to commemorate .
Ernest Guinness
In 1927, Ernest Guinness bought the property as a wedding gift for his daughter, Aileen Guinness , who married her cousin, Brinsley Sheridan Plunket . Aileen Plunket organized lavish parties. Hunting balls and other lavish events were held at the castle. Her niece, Lady Caroline Blackwood , wrote her book Great Granny Webster about her youth in this atmosphere .
Private consortia
In 1983 the property was sold to the private Swiss consortium Primwest and in 2006 JP McManus and John Magnier took over . In 2007 they invested over € 20 million in major expansion work, e.g. B. Improvements to the Steel and Mackenzie- designed competition golf course and “alpine style” clubhouse.
Individual references and comments
- ↑ a b c Jim Lacey: Candle in the Window: A History of the Barony of Castleknock . Marino Books, Dublin 2007, ISBN 978-1-85635-552-0 , The Luttrell Family (English, short version in one paragraph on AskAboutIreland.ie [accessed November 7, 2018]).
- ^ SJ Conolly: Divided Kingdom: Ireland 1630-1800 . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2008, ISBN 978-0-19-954347-2 (English, index of the book on Google [accessed January 31, 2020]).
- ↑ AAI | Big Houses of Ireland . September 30, 2007. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved on November 7, 2018.
- ↑ a b WHITE, Luke (c.1750-1824), of Woodlands, (formerly Luttrellstown), co. Dublin and Porters, Shenley, Herts. | History of Parliament Online . In: www.historyofparliamentonline.org . Retrieved November 7, 2018.
- ↑ Fiona MacCarthy: Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes . Faber & Faber, 2011. ISBN 978-0-571-26581-7 .
- ^ Nancy Schoenberger: Dangerous Muse: The Life of Lady Caroline Blackwood . Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2012. ISBN 978-0-307-82235-2 .
- ^ Liam Kelly: Coghlan vows to put Luttrellstown back on course . In: Golf, Sport . Irish Independent . November 17, 2010. Retrieved November 7, 2018.
