Temple House

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Temple House ( Irish Teach an Teampla ) is a country house from Georgian time at Ballymote in Ireland's County Sligo . The house is set on a 400 acre estate near the ruins of the Knights Templar Templehouse Castle on a lake. Today it is operated as a luxury guest house. It was created around 1825 and was significantly expanded and decorated around 1864.

Templehouse Castle today

The Knights Templar Castle was a castle without a donjon with a rectangular floor plan, which was built in Ballinacarrow ( Baile na Cora ), now a suburb of Ballymote, in 1181 .

history

The lands of today's Temple House were awarded to the Knights Templar in 1216. They fell to the Order of St. John in 1311 when the Knights Templar was dissolved . The castle was converted into a residence in 1627 and besieged and badly damaged in 1641.

The Perceval family had lived on this land since 1665. George Perceval (1635–1675) had settled in Ireland when he acquired the property by marrying an heiress of the Crofton family of Longford House in Colooney . The ruined property was inherited by the Perceval family, some of whom were High Sheriffs of Sligo , until it was owned by Colonel Alexander Perceval (1787-1858), a Member of Parliament for County Sligo and '' Sergeant-at- Arms '' in the House of Lords , came. He had the formerly Gothic house rebuilt around 1825. However, he spent too much money on it, so that the house had to be sold after his death; his third eldest son, also named Alexander Perceval and who had made a fortune in China , bought it. He let expand the country house about 1864, by writing to the main block with five Jochen let grow at right angles a side block with seven yokes.

In 1920 the country house was attacked by the IRA during the Irish War of Independence and the wife of the then owner, Major Alexander Perceval , was seriously injured.

The house, filled with heirlooms, is now operated as a guest house.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Temple House, County Sligo . National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved May 2, 2019.
  2. ^ A b History of Temple House . In: Temple House . Archived from the original on August 2, 2010. Retrieved May 2, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b Introduction House Temple Papers . Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved May 2, 2019.
  4. ^ Perceval, Alexander (1787-1858), of Temple House, Ballymote, co. Sligo . In: History of Parliament Online . Retrieved May 2, 2019.
  5. ↑ Christi Daugherty: Temple House . In: Frommer's . January 7, 2010. Archived from the original on October 4, 2013. Retrieved on May 2, 2019.

Web links

Coordinates: 54 ° 6 ′ 48.1 ″  N , 8 ° 35 ′ 8 ″  W.