Derrynane House
| Derrynane House | |
| County Kerry | |
|---|---|
 South facing facade | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | V52975879 |
| Location: | 51°45’45"N, 10°7’51"W |
| Village: | Derrynane |
| History | |
| Built 1825-1844 | |
| Country house | |
| Information | |
| Condition: | Converted to a museum |
| Owned by: | Heritage Ireland |
| Website: | derrynanehouse.ie |
Derrynane House is a 19th century country house standing near Derrynane on the Iveragh Peninsula in the west of County Kerry. It was the ancestral home of Daniel O'Connell, lawyer, politician and statesman. It is now listed as a National Monument and part of a 320-acre national historic park.
The house is on the Ring of Kerry route, close by Derrynane and two miles from Caherdaniel.[1]
Derrynane House stands within 300 acres of parklands on the Kerry coast, and the house displays relics of O'Connell's life and career.[1]
History
While the O'Connell family had previous associations with the area, it was Daniel O'Connell's grandparents, Domhnall Mór Ó Conaill and Máire Ní Dhonnchadha Dhuibh, who built or extended the house in the 1700s.[2]
The oldest part of the house, built in 1702, was demolished in 1967 for safety reasons during the restoration work. Daniel O'Connell built the two-storey south wing facing the sea and the library wing to the east in 1825, the oldest surviving part of the house. The chapel was added in 1844 and was modelled on the ruined monastery chapel of Derrynane (Ahamore) Abbey on nearby Abbey Island. Restoration work was completed in 1967, when the house was officially opened to the public as a museum by the then president Éamon de Valera.[3]
Pictures
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19th century lithograph -
Derrynane House in 2005 -
House with castellated sectio
Outside links
- Derrynane National Historic Park:
- Buildings of Ireland - Derrynane House
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Derrynane House: Heritage Ireland
- ↑ NÍ Úrdail, Meidhbhín (2009). "Ní Dhonnchadha Dhuibh, Máire". in McGuire, James; Quinn, James. Dictionary of Irish Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://dib.cambridge.org/viewReadPage.do?articleId=a6186.
- ↑ "Archaeological Survey Database SMR No KE106-074". National Monuments Service. http://www.archaeology.ie/.