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Ballydonagh demesne was bought in 1753 by David La Touche, a rich banker from Dublin of Huguenot extraction from his friend, Richard Chevenix Trench, the Anglican Archbishop of Dublin. He built a house between 1754 and 1756 at a cost of £30,000 and named it Bellevue. In 1785 it was inherited by
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was an 18th-century country house set in its own 300 acre (120 ha) demesne, in the village of
Delgany, County Wicklow. It is 25 km (16 miles) south of the Dublin. The house was built on an estate originally called Ballydonagh, after the townland which borders it to the south west. It was demolished
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his son Peter, who moved in after in 1786 his wife
Rebecca Vicars died and he married her cousin Elizabeth Vicars. Peter La Touche built the church in Delgany in 1789 and his wife opened an orphanage and school for female children in the grounds of Bellevue. He died in 1828.
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Bellevue in 1913 after which the house fell into decay and was pulled down in the early 1950s. Part of the land was taken over by the Forestry Division of the Department of Lands.
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1536:Lissan House
1431:Castle Coole
1333:Vernon Mount
1273:O'Dea Castle
1138:Dough Castle
1103:Croom Castle
1093:Castle Otway
1083:Castle Maine
1058:Cahir Castle
1033:Black Castle
1023:Bantry House
965:Townley Hall
940:Slane Castle
915:Mount Loftus
770:Castle Roche
755:Carton House
750:Butler House
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715:Bargy Castle
587:Iveagh House
582:Howth Castle
470:Tyrone House
455:Menlo Castle
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120:Former names
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1581:Tynan Abbey
1531:Inch Castle
1526:Hope Castle
1456:Crom Castle
1416:Burt Castle
1396:Baronscourt
1308:Ross Castle
1113:Damer House
1108:Curraghmore
993:Adare Manor
970:Trim Castle
885:Loftus Hall
870:Leap Castle
740:Birr Castle
597:Lucan Manor
309: /
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157:Coordinates
59:August 2014
51:introducing
1617:Categories
1471:Doe Castle
1178:Fota House
294:53°08′24″N
279:7 December
259:7 December
247:References
167:53°08′24″N
34:references
1343:Woodhouse
1288:Red House
815:Emo Court
577:Hillcourt
567:Farmleigh
552:Deerfield
297:6°06′50″W
217:Irish Sea
170:6°06′50″W
1593:See also
357:Connacht
133:Location
980:Munster
223:History
151:Ireland
148:Country
138:Delgany
47:improve
1358:Ulster
494:Dublin
36:, but
195:Owner
136:near
281:2012
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