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The Ardamine Estate was a country estate and house near Gorey, in County Wexford, Ireland. The house was destroyed in an IRA attack on 9 July 1921 and not rebuilt. [1]
The house and estate was acquired by Solomon Richards in 1818 with the proceeds of an 1812 lottery win of £10,000 [2] and inherited by his successors.
County Wexford is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Leinster and is part of the South-East Region. Named after the town of Wexford, it was based on the historic Gaelic territory of Hy Kinsella, whose capital was Ferns. Wexford County Council is the local authority for the county. The population of the county was 149,722 at the 2016 census.
James Ryan was an Irish politician who served in every Fianna Fáil government from 1932 to 1965, successively as Minister for Agriculture (1932–1947), Health and Social Welfare, and Finance (1957–1965). He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for Wexford from 1918 to 1922 and 1923 to 1965, and as senator from 1965 to 1969. He was a member of Sinn Féin until he joined Fianna Fáil upon that party's foundation in 1926.
Baron Carew is a title that has been created three times. The first creation was in the Peerage of England in 1605. The first recipient, Sir George Carew (1555–1629), was later made Earl of Totnes in 1626. Both titles became extinct on his death as he left no heirs.
Gorey is a market town in north County Wexford, Ireland. It is beside the main M11 Dublin to Wexford road. The town is also connected to the railway network along the same route. Local newspapers include the Gorey Guardian.
Courtown, is a village which developed after Lord Courtown ordered the construction of a harbour during the Famine years, 1839–1846. The economic boost of the new harbour led to a small village developing with fishing being the primary economy of the village. Courtown is situated on the Irish Sea coast and with the recent development during the Celtic Tiger years, has merged into the adjoining village of Riverchapel. It lies on the R742 regional road.
Ballinatray Lower and Ballintray Upper are townlands in Gorey, County Wexford, Ireland. Other townlands in Ireland are called Ballinatray as well.
Robert Walter Doyne (1857–1916) was an Anglo-Irish ophthalmologist.
St. Patrick's Church at Clonevan is in the Church of Ireland parish of Ardamine, County Wexford in the Diocese of Cashel and Ossory. The church is located on the R742 road south of the village of Ballygarrett near Cahore Point on the Wexford coast.
Riverchapel, County Wexford, Ireland, lies just south of Courtown on the R742 regional road and has been a summer holiday resort for Dublin people at least since tourists started to arrive in 1863, when the railway line from Dublin reached nearby Gorey. The population of the area has also grown significantly since the mid-2000s. Riverchapel is 1 km inland from the Irish Sea coast and has merged into the adjoining village of Courtown.
Sir Thomas Henry Grattan Esmonde, 11th Baronet, was an Irish Home Rule nationalist politician and author.
Murrintown, also spelled Murntown, is a small village located in the southeast of County Wexford, in Ireland, close to Wexford town. It is part of the parish of Piercestown.
Col. Robert Ward PC (Ire), styled The Honourable from 1770, was an Irish politician and colonel of the South Down militia.
John Richards PC was an Irish lawyer and judge.
Marlfield House, County Wexford is an Irish country house built in 1852 and was one of the two houses owned by the Earls of Courtown. An example of a rural regency style house, it was a dower house on the Courtown House Estate. It is now a hotel.
The destruction of country houses in Ireland was a phenomenon of the Irish revolutionary period (1919–1923), which saw at least 275 country houses deliberately burned down, blown up, or otherwise destroyed by the Irish Republican Army (IRA).
Robert James Gray is an Irish Anglican priest: he is the current Archdeacon of Ferns, Cashel, Waterford and Lismore.
Solomon Richards was an Irish surgeon who served four terms as president of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) in 1794, 1803, 1808, and 1818. He achieved fame by performing a tracheotomy in public for which act he featured in a satirical poem in The Metropolis. He was praised for his philanthropy and noted for his puns and bon mots. He was said to be the "fattest surgeon in the United Kingdom".
John Goddard Richards was an Irish barrister, justice of the peace, and High Sheriff of Wexford for 1824. He was the eldest son and heir of the leading surgeon Solomon Richards and his wife Elizabeth Groome, daughter of the Reverend Edward Groome. He owned land on the Roebuck Estate in County Dublin and the Ardamine Estate in County Wexford.
Solomon Augustus Richards was High Sheriff of Wexford in 1854. He was a captain in the Wexford Militia. He was the eldest son and heir of the barrister John Goddard Richards and his first wife Anne Catherine Ward, and the grandson of the surgeon Solomon Richards and of the politician Hon. Robert Ward. He succeeded to his father's estates in 1846. He owned land on the Roebuck Estate in County Dublin and the Ardamine Estate in County Wexford. He married his first cousin Sophia Mordaunt Ward, daughter of the Reverend Bernard John Ward and Isabella Phillips, who died on 11 August 1899 at age 70. They had three sons. They are both buried in the Ardamine graveyard.
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