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https://hdl.handle.net/10599/7644| Title: | Killakee House and Massy Gardens, Killakee Road, South Dublin County |
| Authors: | National Inventory of Architectural Heritage |
| Keywords: | Extensive gardens and foundations of former country house tiered high-walled gardens arches buildings garden furniture bridge icehouse curvilinear glasshouse foundations Richard Turner fountains dammed pond exotic trees Massy's Woods Colonel Luke White Irish Ascendancy Killakee |
| Issue Date: | 1-Jan-2002 |
| Publisher: | Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government |
| Description: | Extensive gardens and foundations of former country house, c.1806, demolished 1941. Former building now replaced with modern house, possibly with original basement under, and with surviving wall at driveway. Over the river are remains of four acres of tiered high-walled gardens with arches, buildings, garden furniture, bridges, an icehouse, curvilinear glasshouse foundations and fountains designed by Richard Turner supplied by dammed pond to south-west, all within a wooded designed landscape with walks and exotic trees. |
| URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10599/7644 |
| Appears in Collections: | National Inventory of Architectural Heritage Collection Published Items |
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