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James Fennell

Lisnavagh, Ireland

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A magnificent deep-pink rhododendron tree greets visitors to Lisnavagh, the home of the Bunbury family since 1669 and the six small children playing in the extensive garden and grounds are the twelfth generation to have lived there. The present Tudor Revival house, which was built in 1847, sits on a gently raised plateau with views to the Blackstairs and Wicklow mountains

  • A stone archway opens from the entrance hall to a modest staircase
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  • The spacious entrance hall is furnished with family relics and portraits, each with a story to tell
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  • A bureau-bookcase in the entrance hall is built from the wood of HMS Samarang. This was the ship that the young William McClintock Bunbury sailed on whilst chasing slave ships and protecting British interests in the Southern Hemisphere
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  • The sunny entrance hall contains relics of former generations of Bunburys, including antique parasols and a bureau bookcase made with wood from HMS Samarang
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  • A stone-flagged corridor leads from the entrance hall to the main reception rooms
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  • Double glass doors open from the entrance hall into a stone-flagged corridor
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  • Croquet mallets are propped against the wall in the stone-flagged hallway
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  • Studded double doors open into a narrow corridor at the entrance to Lisnavagh House
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  • Detail of two riders on a Victorian decoupage screen
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  • A detail of a Victorian decoupage screen, which has been decorated with amusing scenes and caricatures, now peeling and damaged
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  • An antique screen decorated with Victorian decoupage fills a corner of this ante-room
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  • A collection of hats hangs on a pair of antlers in the entrance hall
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  • Antique trunks and a Victorian decoupage screen furnish the entrance hall at Lisnavagh House
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  • The gothic windows in the library have views over the extensive gardens at Lisnavagh House
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  • Portraits of the Bunbury family are framed by the oak bookcases in the library
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  • A detail of one of the 17th century carved panels that were used to construct the bookcases in the library
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  • The carved oak bookcases in the library frame family portraits, including one of Anne Lefroy, wife of the 1st Lord Rathdonnell
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  • A detail of the embossed leather wall covering around the fireplace, its ornate blue and gold pattern now tarnished with age
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  • The library, its walls clad in oak panelling and a richly embossed leather panel, represents an eclectic mix of periods
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  • The embossed leather wall covering around the mantelpiece was taken from a four-panel screen
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  • The oak bookcases in the library are made of a combination of 17th century panelling and moulding, and 19th century cabinetwork
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  • The Dublin firm of Strahan supplied the octagonal centre table and leather upholstered chairs in the library
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  • A portrait of one of the McClintock Bunburys in the library
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  • Two pages from the photograph album of the present Lord Rathdonnell's grandmother, Edith Sylvia Drew, who filled it with souvenirs of her travels
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  • The present Lord Rathdonnell's grandmother, Edith Sylvia Drew, filled her photograph albums with souvenirs of her travels
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  • The painting in Lord Rathdonnell's grandmother's photograph album is of an owl delivering her sister Golly Drew
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  • Two pages from Edith Sylvia Drew's photograph album and scapbook, layered with photographs, playing cards and cartoons, all souvenirs from her life of travel and at Lisnavagh
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  • An elaborately carved sideboard is glimpsed through a doorway into the dining room
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  • The traditional dining room has burgundy red walls and curtain pelmets shaped to reflect the gothic windows
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  • A long corridor, cut by a series of white-painted door frames, creates an enfilade on an upstairs landing
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  • A set of oriental figurines is displayed on a table on a bedroom landing
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  • A modernised upstairs corridor is home to a number of antiques
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  • The elaborately turned four-poster bed and window curtains are both adorned with matching scalloped pelmets
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  • A jaunty cherubic figure holds a bedside lamp aloft
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  • The windows of a four-poster bedroom are dressed with curtain pelmets to match the bed hangings
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  • The Colonel's Room is furnished with an imposing four-poster bed and is decorated with illustrations and family ephemera
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  • The Colonel's Room is named after Colonel Kane Bunbury who died at Lisnavagh at the age of ninety-seven
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  • A pair of antique opera glasses is amongst the family memorabilia in the Colonel's Room
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  • Lively illustrations and humorous verse in a hunting journal from the 1930s and 1940s that belonged to Golly Drew, Lord Rathdonell's aunt
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  • A circular family photograph of Katherine Anne, Lady Rathdonnell, and her eldest son, Billy, who was killed in the Boer War at twenty-one
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  • Passementerie hangings are a feature of the four-poster bed in the Colonel's room
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  • A sweeping gravel drive between banks of purple rhododendron leads up to Lisnavagh House
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  • A couple of children run hand in hand along the gravel path in the rhododendron grove
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  • A pair of children play beneath an avenue of ancient yew trees
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  • The garden front of Lisnavagh House
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