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Conolly’s Folly
This folly, which lies just Practical Information
beyond the grounds of Road map D4.
Castletown House, provides Celbridge, Co Kildare.
the focus of the view from Tel 01 628 8252.
∑ castletown.ie
the Long Gallery. Speaker
Conolly’s widow, Katherine, Open mid-Mar–end-Oct:
commissioned it in 1740 as daily). 7 limited. &
- 8 obligatory.
a memorial to her late
hus band, and to provide Summer: concerts.
employment after a harsh Transport
winter. The unusual structure @ 67, 67A from Dublin.
of superimposed arches
crowned by an obelisk is from
designs by Richard Cassels,
architect of Russ borough
House (see p136).

. Staircase Hall
This portrait of Lady Louisa
is part of the superb Rococo
stuccowork by the
Lafrancini brothers which
decorates the staircase.

Entrance

. Print Room
In this, the only intact
18th-century print room
in Ireland, Lady Louisa
indulged her taste for
Italian engravings. It was
fashionable at that time
for ladies to paste prints
directly on to the wall
and frame them with
elaborate festoons.

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