Back Hall and Staircase

Pictures

Over the diningroom door
Rowland Bateman MP, of Oak Park, Co. Kerry. In 1758, he married Letitia, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Thomas Denny of Tralee Castle. Rowland was the brother of Mary, wife of Thomas FitzGerald.

Clockwise from diningroom door

Top row
Robert FitzGerald, 17th Earl of Kildare, who rebuilt Carton in 1740s. Head of the FitzGerald family and father of the 1st Duke of Leinster. He married Lady Mary O'Brien, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Inchiquin, and died in 1744.

A pair of early 19th century portraits of Sir John Judkin FitzGerald, 2nd Bt., of Lisheen, Co. Tipperary, and his wife Maria Elizabeth Geraldine. They married in 1837 - he died in 1860, and she died in 1839. She was the daughter of Preston FitzGerald of Dublin and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Major General Pringle (whose portrait hangs in the diningroom).
A member of the Brown family of Mount Brown, Co. Limerick. Circa 1725.

Rachel FitzGerald, sister of the present Knight of Glin, who married Michael Severne of Shakenhurst, Worchestershire in 1952. The portrait is by Lord Methuen RA and was painted in about 1953. She died in 1996.

Bottom row (clockwise from right of diningroom door)
A series of paintings by Lady Rachel FitzGerald, of her father, 4th Earl of Dunraven's yachts, include Valkyrie 2 and Valkyrie 3 and Audrey.

Right of the hall door
The Plyone, a yacht of about 70 tons belonging to Captain Harry Hunt of Fort Shannon, a house near Glin. This was painted in about 1880s by a member of the Atkinson family of Cork. The Plyone is shown sailing up the river Shannon, with the Beeves lighthouse rock to the left and one of the Shannon paddle steamers - either the SS Huntsman or the SS Shamrock - on the right. The skipper was Maskel from Tarbert.

Elsewhere
A collection of Irish maps and ephemera, including Edwin Sandy's map of the siege of Derry. Sandys was one of the earliest engravers working in Ireland. The map dates from 1696.
A photograph of Desmond FitzJohn Lloyd FitzGerald, 27th Knight of Glin, DL. He married, in 1897, Lady Rachel Wyndham Quin. She died in 1901 and he died in 1936. He had an army career, and was a great sportsman. He suffered a stroke in about 1912 and remained at Glin through the War of Independence and the Civil War. He refused to budge from the house when the Sinn Feiners came to burn it in 1923 - it is said that the locals got them drunk so they never returned. His son used the oil they left behind for his car and electric light machine!

Hanging by the wing door
Two drawings done in 1929 while on honeymoon in Naples: Desmond Windham Otho FitzGerald, 28th Knight of Glin, and his wife Veronica, daughter of Ernest Amherst Villiers MP. He died in 1949 and she put every energy into keeping Glin during very hard times. In 1954 she married for the second time Horatio Ray Milner CC QC, a Canadian who did much to restore Glin in the late 1950s. He died in 1975 and she died in 1998.