Duckett's Grove

 park, garden, ruins

The towers and turrets of Ducketts Grove formerly centred on a 12,000 acre estate have dominated the landscape for over 200 years. The mansion was transformed into a spectacular castellated Gothic fantasy by Thomas A. Cobden for J. D. Duckett in 1830. The estate house was used as a training camp in the early 1920s by the Irish Republican Army, and later it was owned by a local farmers co-operative until it was taken over by the Land Commission. In the early 1930s the house and surrounding lands was owned by local firm Thompson’s Engineering Works. The main building was burned in 1933 but its impressive ruins and surroundings form a most romantic landscape making it one of the most photogenic estate houses in Ireland. It was in private ownership from the 1930s until it was recently acquired by Carlow County Council.

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