Bellevue Conservatory, Delgany, Co. Wicklow
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A rival to the National Botanical Gardens in the heart of Wicklow? This fine series of glasshouses and conservatory seem to have a strikingly modern design to rival those of the Botanic Gardens! If they still exist what are/were they used for? Commercial or research? Native flowers or exotics? And who put them there?
Happy Valentine's day to every one - may you have lots of chocolates, get loads of cards, and generally feel much love today! We got something of a Valentine's present ourselves - in the form of answers to nearly all questions:
- Standing? No - the house/etc pulled down in the 1950s
- Exotics? Yes - apparently "Many rare exotics"
- Who? Peter Shanley - for the estate of Peter La Touche
- When? c.1796 - when it was the "largest conservatory in Europe"
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: c.1865-1914
NLI Ref: L_ROY_09902
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Happy Valentine's day to every one - may you have lots of chocolates, get loads of cards, and generally feel much love today! We got something of a Valentine's present ourselves - in the form of answers to nearly all questions:
- Standing? No - the house/etc pulled down in the 1950s
- Exotics? Yes - apparently "Many rare exotics"
- Who? Peter Shanley - for the estate of Peter La Touche
- When? c.1796 - when it was the "largest conservatory in Europe"
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: c.1865-1914
NLI Ref: L_ROY_09902
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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Niall McAuley
Bellevue was a Big House, now gone. GeoHive OSI 25", I think all the crosshatched buildings are glasshouses.
Niall McAuley
A google maps aerial view shows the walls standing, but the glass is all gone.
Niall McAuley
Many entries in the DIA including a 264 ft range of conservatories in 1796, for Peter La Touche.
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" ... a 650-feet conservatory, which would house many exotic plants as well as an orangery, a cherry house, a peach house and a vinery. Completed in 1793, this magnificent creation was then the largest conservatory in Europe. ..." From www.greystonesguide.ie/requiem-for-the-big-house-on-the-h... - includes a YouTube video of a walk around the grounds with locals holding a copy of this photo.
Niall McAuley
Ha ha! Beautiful gardens were laid out with winding paths and "extras" built by David and his son, Peter, when he inherited in 1785. Among these was the Octagon, built in 1766, with a panther on springs, which could be made to jump out at unwary visitors. The house was most famous for its huge glasshouse, built between 1783 and 1793, in which many exotic plants were grown.
Niall McAuley
Bellevue now fell on hard times, and in 1906 Mr. James North, the Auctioneer, conducted a sale of family treasures. The family now tried taking in paying guests, and land was sold to the Holy Faith Sisters to build a school. Dr. Archer was instrumental in helping to build a Golf Club in Delgany, he being elected its first President. However, the Archers finally vacated Bellevue in 1913, and went to live in Malvern in Delgany village. The house fell into decay and was pulled down in the early l950s, and the lands were taken over by the Forestry Division of the Department of Lands.
Wendy:
what a loss!
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Yes, the glasshouses snaked around to the back of the house - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000317345
O Mac
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lizinitaly I agree....It's a pane.(sic)
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People who love in glass-houses, shouldn't. Happy Valentine's !
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia Lady Shatterly?
oaktree_brian_1976
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland hahaha.
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National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Thanks https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia! Not a limerick though - it'll be haiku next :) Map/tags/etc all updated based on today's inputs...
philfluther
"The Garden of Ireland".