Santry Court, Dublin 

Bence-Jones, Mark. A Guide to Irish Country Houses (originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978); Revised edition 1988 Constable and Company Ltd, London.

p. 254. “(Barry/IFR; Domville/IFR; Poe-Domville, sub Poe/IFR)…[see Lord Belmont] A very important early C18 house of red brick with stone facings, built 1703 by 3^rd Lord Barry of Santry, commonly called Lord Santry. …Curved sweeps and wings added later, probably ca 1740-50 by the notorious 4^th and last Lord Barry of Santry, commonly called Lord Santry, a leading member of the Hell Fire Club who was tried and convicted before his peers for the murder of a porter at an inn at Palmerstown 1739, but saved from the death penalty on a recommendation for mercy; his estates were restored to him but his peerage was forfeited for life. …Santry was inherited by the Domvilles after the death of the last Lord Barry of Santry 1751….On the death of Sir Compton Domville, 4^th and last Bt, 1935, it passed to his nephew, Sir  Hugo Poe, 2^nd and last Bt, who assumed the additional name of Domvile. The house was gutted by fire in the 1940s…The doorcase from the entrance front is to be re-erected in Dublin Castle.”

Listed in Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland by The Knight of Glin, David J. Griffin and Nicholas K. Robinson, published by The Irish Architectural Archive and The Irish Georgian Society, 1988.

p. 67. “…The fine entrance doorcase is held in store by the OPW.”