Wolfe, Arthur (b. 1738) Viscount Kilwarden

Newlands, Tallaght, Co Dublin 

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Newlands, Tallaght, Co Dublin 

Newlands, County Dublin, 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. 225. “Wolfe/IFR) A two storey Georigan house of nine bays… The seat of Arthur Wolfe, MP, afterwards Lord Chief Justice of King’s Bench and 1st Viscount Kilwarden, who helped save Wolfe Tone from the gallows 1794; the Tone family being freehold tenants on the estate of his cousin, Theobald Wolfe, of Blackhall, Co Kildare. Newlands was the residence of J.Crotty. Recently demolished.” 

Arthur Wolfe, 1st Viscount Kilwarden and his wife Anne by Thomas Hickey, 1769. Courtesy Sothebys.

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.