Marlfield House, Clonmel

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Marlfield House
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North façade, 2010.
Location0.5 miles (1 km) west of Marlfield, Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland
Coordinates 52°20′35″N7°45′40″W / 52.34306°N 7.76111°W / 52.34306; -7.76111
Built1785
Architect William Tinsley
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Location of Marlfield House in Ireland

Marlfield House was the former residence of the Bagwells, a wealthy and politically influential Irish Unionist family in south Tipperary from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.

It is located about three kilometres west of the town of Clonmel on the northern bank of the River Suir. It was built by John Bagwell in 1785. The main entrance gate, considered of exceptional quality, was designed by the local architect William Tinsley and the conservatory by Richard Turner. [1] In January 1923, the main house was badly damaged in an arson attack by anti-Treaty IRA forces during the Irish Civil War. The fire destroyed the library and historical papers of historian Richard Bagwell. [2] [3] It was targeted because of Bagwell's son John Philip Bagwell was a Senator in the new Irish Free State. [4]

Following that conflict it was rebuilt and remained in Bagwell hands until the 1970s when it and the surrounding park and estate lands were sold. The first and second floors have since been converted into twelve apartments.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. "Marlfield House Apartments". Marlfield House Apartments. 2010. Retrieved 1 June 2010.
  2. O'Byrne, Robert (2021). 'The Library in Marlfield, County Tipperary, its creation and destruction', in 'Country House Collections-Their Lives and Afterlives', eds. Terence Dooley and Christopher Ridgeway. Four Courts Press.
  3. Mary O'Dowd, ‘Bagwell, Richard (1840–1918)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008
  4. "Marlfield House". Irish Historical Studies. 24. Dublin: Irish Historical Society/Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies. 1984. Retrieved 28 June 2010.