Lucan Manor is a Georgian-Palladian house and estate in Lucan,

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, it is remembered particularly for its association with the Sarsfield family. A castle or house has been recorded on the site since at least the 12th century.

History

Lucan manor is mentioned on the pipe roll as far back as 1272 when it was granted to Norman lords on the conquest of Ireland. The Sarsfield family first acquired Lucan when it was bought in 1566 by the

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William Sarsfield Sir William Sarsfield was an Irish landowner, public official and soldier of the sixteenth century. Sarsfield was from a wealthy merchant family, part of the Old English inhabitants of The Pale who remained Roman Catholic following the Reformat ...

who passed it on to his younger son. The Manor remained in the hands of the Sarsfields until the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland when they were dispossessed of it due to

Patrick Sarsfield Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan, ga, Pádraig Sáirseál, circa 1655 to 21 August 1693, was an Irish soldier, and leading figure in the Jacobite army during the 1689 to 1691 Williamite War in Ireland. Born into a wealthy Catholic famil ...

's role in the Irish Rebellion of 1641. It was then awarded to the Irish soldier Sir Theophilus Jones. After the Irish Restoration in 1660, the Sarsfields attempted to recover the estate. Despite their appeals being rejected in court, they were eventually able to secure its return following the intervention of Charles II. There were further disputes following the death of

in 1675, with the manor eventually passing to his daughter, Charlotte Sarsfield, who married Agmondisham Vesey. Lucan Manor was demolished in the 1770s. Its Georgian era Palladian villa replacement, Lucan House, was constructed around 1775 by Agmondisham Vesey and today still stands on the site. Upon the death of Vesey in 1785, the house and estate passed to his son George Vesey. On his death the house passed to his daughter Elizabeth Vesey and her husband

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. They and their decendants then had the house from 1836 to 1921. Later, the house was acquired by Charles Hugh O'Conor, the son of

Charles Owen O'Conor Charles Owen O'Conor, O'Conor Don PC ( ga, Cathal Eóghan Ó Conchubhair Donn; 7 May 1838 – 30 June 1906),John P. McCarthyIreland: A Reference Guide from the Renaissance to the Present p. 379 was an Irish politician Life The eldest son of Den ...

in the 1930s. As of 2022, the house is the residence of the Italian ambassador to Ireland. The Italian government had been renting the property since 1942 and acquired the property in 1954. John James Barralet - View of Lucan House - B1975

John James Barralet - View of Lucan House - B1975

References

Bibliography

* Wauchope, Piers. ''Patrick Sarsfield and the Williamite War''. Irish Academic Press, 1992. {{Historic Irish houses , state=collapsed Buildings and structures in South Dublin (county) Demolished buildings and structures in the Republic of Ireland Buildings and structures demolished in the 1770s Diplomatic residences in Dublin