Brockley Park, County Laois drawing room ceiling c. 1944, 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.
Mark Bence-Jones. 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. 48. “(Jocelyn, Roden, E/PB; Young/LGI1912) A house built 1768 for 2nd Viscount Jocelyn, afterwards 1st Earl of Roden, Auditor-General of Ireland, to the design of Davis Duckart. Of three storeys over basement; seven bay entrance front with breakfront centre; garden front of four bays with a projection at one side ending in a three-sided bow. Two storey wing. Good interior plasterwork. By 1825 the Rodens had ceased to live at Brockley, which afterwards became the seat of the Young family; it was demolished 1944.”
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. 97. “A large three storey house built in 1768…Superb interior plasterwork and staircase. Dismanteld in 1944, some ruins remain.”
Tollymore Park, Bryansford, Co Down – house demolished, demesne open to public, with follies
Tollymore Park, County Down, photograph by Robert French, (between ca. 1865-1914), Lawrence Photograph Collection, National Library of Ireland.
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. 2772. “(Hamilton, Clanbrassill, E/DEP; Jocelyn, Roden, E/PB) A C18 and C19 house extending round four sides of a courtyard; of which the earliest part was built mid-C18 by James Hamilton, Viscount Limerick and1st Earl of Clanbrassill of 2nd Creation; whose grandmother was the heiress of the Magennis family, the original owners of the estate.
James Hamilton (1617/1618-1659) 1st Earl of Clanbrassil and 2nd Viscount Clandeboye, courtesy of National Trust Castle Ward.
As first built, the house consisted of a two storey block with one bay on either side of a central three sided bow, and single-storey three bay wings; the entrance door being not in the middle of the bow, but in the bay to the left of it. The architect of this original range is likely to have been Thomas Wright, of Durham, probably very much in collaboration with first Earl. By 1787 the three other sides of the courtyard had been built, all single-storey; the entrance had been moved from its original position to the centre of the adjoining front, and the house already had the long corridors with windows containing roundels of Flemish stained glass, for which it was noted in later years. Towards mid-C19 – by which time Tollymore had passed by inheritance to the Earls of Roden – an extra storey was added to all those parts of the house which had formerly been of one storey only. The entrance front became a typical late-Georgian composition…The demesne of Tollymore is famous for its picturesque scenery and its numerous follies. It is one of the earliest examples in Ireland of a naturalistic landscape park in the manner of William Kent, having been laid out by 1st Earl of Clanbrassill (then Viscount Limerick) in mid-C18. The follies, gateways and bridges, mostly erected by 2nd and last Earl of Clanbrassill and some of them probably designed by Thomas Wright, include a barn made to look like a Gothic church, with a tower and spire, gate piers with spires, an obelist, a grotto or hermitage, an elegant Gothic arch with crocketed pinnacles and flying buttresses, and a castellated gateway known as the Barbican Gate. The Tollymore estate was bought by the Northern Ireland Ministry of Agricuture in two portions in 1930 and 1941. The house was demolished 1952; but the demesne is maintained as a forest park and open to the public.
Lord Clanbrassil (probably James Hamilton (1729-1798) 2nd Earl of Clanbrassil of second creation) by Thomas Hickey (Irish 1741-1824) courtesy of Wooley and Wallis sale 2010.Tollymore Park, County Down, photograph by Robert French, (between ca. 1865-1914), Lawrence Photograph Collection, National Library of Ireland.Tollymore Park, County Down, photograph by Robert French, (between ca. 1865-1914), Lawrence Photograph Collection, National Library of Ireland.Robert Jocelyn (1688? – 1756) Viscount Jocelyn, Lord Chancellor of Ireland,by STEPHEN SLAUGHTER (1697-1765), Adams auction 26th April 2022.His city residence was on St Stephen’s Green, and he had country residences in Co. Dublin at Donnybrook and later at Mount Merrion.Robert Jocelyn, Baron Newport (c.1688-1756), Lord Chancellor of Ireland, later 1st Viscount Jocelyn Date 1747 Engraver Andrew Miller, English, fl.1737-1763 After Justin Pope-Stevens, Irish, fl.1743, d.1771, courtesy of National Gallery of Ireland.Robert Jocelyn (1688? – 1756) Baron Newport and 1st Viscount, as Lord High Chancellor of Ireland Irish school courtesy of National Trust Castle Ward.Robert Jocelyn (1788-1870) 3rd Earl of Roden, by Thomas Goff Lupton, printed by R. Lloyd, published 28 April 1839 by Hodgson & Graves, after Frederick Richard Say, courtesy of National Portrait Gallery NPG D39829.Elizabeth Jocelyn (1813-1884), Marchioness of Londonderry, wife of 4th Marquess of Londonderry, formerly Viscountess Powerscourt, wife of 6th Viscount Powerscourt, by James Rannie Swinton, courtesy of Mount Stewart National Trust.She was the daughter of Robert Jocelyn, 3rd Earl of Roden.
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