Massy, Hugh (1733-1790) 2nd Baron of Duntrileague County Limerick

Killakee House, Co Dublin – demolished

by jenjunebug

Killakee House, Co Dublin – demolished

Killakee, Rathfarnham, Dublin by Robert French, Lawrence Collection, NLI, 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.

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. 169. (Massy, B/PB) A two storey stucco-faced Victoirain Italianate house of symmetrical aspect…now demolished.” 

In Blake, Tarquin. Abandoned Mansions of Ireland II: More Portraits of Forgotten Stately Homes. Collins Press, Cork, 2012.   

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.

“A large two storey early 19C house with single storey granite portico. Attractive interior included one room with Chinese wallpaper. Former seat of the Massys. Demolished.”

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