Castletown House
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Castletown House, Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland, is a Palladian house built in 1722 for William Conolly, the Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. It formed the centrepiece of an 800-acre estate
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Castletown House
The house in 1835, Dublin Penny Journal
Rear (northwest) facade
Lady Louisa Conolly
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Lady Louisa Conolly was an English noblewoman. She was the third of the famous Lennox Sisters, and was notable among them for leading a wholly uncontroversial life filled with good works.
Castletown House
…passed to Conolly's nephew William James Conolly, MP for Ballyshannon. On William James' death in 1754 it passed to his son Tom Conolly whose wife, Lady Louisa (great-granddaughter of Charles II of England and Louise de Keroualle), finished the interior decoration during the 1760s and 1770s. Lady Louisa had…
Lady Louisa Conolly, by George Romney, 1776.
The interior entrance hall at Castletown House in County Kildare