Moyglare House
- Klasifikace
- Panské sídlo
- Země
- Irsko
- Region
- County Meath
- Adresa
- Moyglare Road, W23 RT91, Maynooth
- Období / styl
- Late Georgian (1750s-1770s)
Moyglare House is a three-storey Georgian residence begun in the 1750s but not completed until the 1770s due to family circumstances. Located just north of Maynooth in County Meath, the handsome house features a five-bay front elevation with three central bays forming a full-height canted bow. The walls are rendered and partly enclosed by symmetrically curved curtain walls. Colonel John Arabin, son of a Huguenot who fled France during the Dragonnades, purchased the estate in 1737 from Sir William Yonge, 4th baronet. The colonel had a distinguished military career with the 8th Dragoons, participating in the Jacobite rebellion and later commanding in Gibraltar, where he died in 1757. His grandson Henry, a lawyer supporting Catholic Emancipation and a Royal Dublin Society member, married Anne Favor Grant in 1781 and managed the Corkagh gunpowder mills near Clondalkin. The house retains its essential late eighteenth-century character with fine interiors, notably the hall - a splendidly architectural composition with a deep niche flanked by a pair of mahogany doors and crisply-moulded plasterwork. The frieze uniquely combines musical instruments and military trophies. In the 1960s, George Fegan, a Dublin surgeon and art collector, owned the property. The late 1970s saw conversion to a country house hotel, with a sympathetically designed 1990 porch based on William Pain's 1758 Builder's Companion. Following the hotel's 2009 closure, the house underwent enlightened restoration by current owners, who maintain the mature parkland, vistas toward Moyglare church, and are developing the gardens and grounds. Available as a film location, with holiday cottages offered for short breaks and accommodation.
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