Ireland · Demolished
Derryquin Castle
Derryquin Castle was an 18th‑century stone-built country house on the Parknasilla estate near Sneem, County Kerry, Ireland. The house featured a three-storey main block with a four-storey octagonal tower and a two-storey partly curved wing; it was burned in 1922 and later demolished in 1969.
Its prime
1900
Today
Demolished
As it stood in 1900
What Derryquin Castle looked like in its prime.
A three-storey rectangular stone main block dominated by a four-storey octagonal tower rising through its centre, all topped with crenellated parapets and visible machicolations; tall narrow sash windows puncture the façades. A lower two-storey, partly curved wing extends to one side with a matching battlemented roofline. The building sits on a lawned forecourt framed by mature trees and punctuated by tall brick chimneys projecting above the crenellations.
Its story
The story of Derryquin Castle.
Derryquin Castle was an 18th-century stone-built country house on the Parknasilla estate near Sneem, County Kerry, on the Ring of Kerry route south-west of Killarney. Designed by local architect James Franklin Fuller, it comprised a three-storey main block with a four-storey octagonal tower rising through the centre and a partly curved two-storey wing, finished with battlements and machicolations.
The estate was acquired by the Very Reverend James Bland, an Englishman who came to Ireland in 1692 as chaplain to the Earl of Romney, the newly appointed Lord Lieutenant. Parknasilla then descended through five generations of Blands, among them Judge Nathaniel Bland and two High Sheriffs of Kerry, until James Franklin Bland sold the castle to the Warden family in 1891.
The Wardens lived at Derryquin until 1922, when the house, then owned by Colonel Charles Wallace Warden, was burnt down by the Irish Republican Army, one of many historic houses in Ireland to suffer that fate. The shell was demolished in 1969, and the site now lies within the grounds of the Parknasilla Hotel, which the Blands themselves had built in the 1890s.
Step inside
6 places to explore in 1900.
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Clans who held Derryquin Castle.
The families that held Derryquin Castle for a decade or more across its history, follow a name to its clan.
Bland
Held by the Bland family from the 1690s until James Franklin Bland sold the estate in 1891.
Warden
Held by the Warden family, 1891–1922, when the house was burnt by the IRA.
