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- c.1890 (Creation)
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1 p.; clipping
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A clipping of a newspaper article on Clontarf Castle in County Dublin. The article includes an illustration of the exterior of the castle.
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Although a fortification has existed on this site since the late twelfth century, the current Clontarf Castle dates to 1836-7. As noted in the article, the building was designed by the famed Irish architect William Vitruvius Morrison (1794-1838) and involved the radical modelling of the old castle in various architectural styles (Norman keep, fourteenth-century tower, and most notably an Elizabethan-style manor house).
Morrison also built a highly ornamental gatehouse for the castle’s then owner John Edward Venables Vernon (1813-1890). The castle remained in the possession of the Vernon family for some three hundred years before it was sold in the early 1930s. It later functioned as a cabaret hall but has since been repurposed into a luxury hotel and wedding venue.