Luttrellstown
Who owned Luttrellstown Castle from 1691 to 1717?
Luttrellstown Castle Luttrellstown Castle , dating from the early 15th century ( c . 1420 ) , is located in Clonsilla on the outskirts of Dublin , Ireland . It has been owned variously by the eponymous and notorious Luttrell family , by the bookseller Luke White and his descendants Baron Annaly , by the Guinness family , the Primwest Group , and since 2006 , by JP McManus , John Magnier and Aidan Brooks . The castle has hosted visits by Queen Victoria in 1844 and 1900 , and its media profile was raised when Victoria Adams married David Beckham there on 4 July 1999 . The demesnes current owners have converted Woodlands into a 5-star resort . Demesne . Luttrellstown Demesne originally comprised the entirety of the townland of Woodlands in the civil parish of Clonsilla . Today , Luttrellstown Castle Resort and its remaining demesne currently form a 5-star resort , with a golf course , country club and unique location just outside the city boundaries of Dublin . A stream rising near the townland of Pass-If-You-Can enters an aqueduct in the townland of Westmanstown and passes under the Royal Canal before entering the north-western corner of the demesne . Within the walls of the demesne , the waters are dammed to form a chain of artificial ponds . The stream exits the south-eastern corner of the demesne at a gate lodge on the Strawberry Beds , passing under the road before falling into the River Liffey 25m later . Owners . The Luttrell family . The demesne and adjoining lands were granted to Sir Geoffrey de Luterel about 1210 by King John of England . Sir Geoffrey served as the kings minister on many missions of state to Ireland from 1204 to 1216 . He was the ancestor of the Luttrells of Dunster Castle in Somersetshire , England . The family became the biggest landowners in the district by the 17th century . Robert Luttrell was treasurer of St Patricks Cathedral and Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1235 to 1245 , and married into the Plunkett family . The castle was started by Sir Geoffrey Luttrell , the 5th Lord Luttrell , who was born about 1385 . Sir Thomas Luttrell was Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas , 1534-1554 , and actively involved in the dissolution of the monasteries . He acquired the lands of St Marys Abbey at Coolmine . Colonel Henry Luttrell , ( born about 1655 , died 22 October 1717 ) , the second son of Thomas Luttrell of Luttrellstown , was an Anglo-Irish soldier . He was suspected of betraying the Irish leader Patrick Sarsfield , either by his precipitate withdrawal of his Jacobite troops or by giving the army of King William III of England strategic information about a ford of a river , leading to the loss of the Battle of Aughrim in 1691 . After the Siege of Limerick , Luttrell brought his regiment into the Williamite cause . For this act , he was rewarded with the forfeited estates of his elder brother , Simon Luttrell , including Luttrellstown , and was made a major general in the Dutch army . He was assassinated in his sedan chair outside his town house in Wolftone Street , Dublin , in 1717 . Colonel Simon Luttrell , 1st Earl of Carhampton ( 1713–14 January 1787 ) , was an Irish nobleman who became a politician at Westminster . He was the second son of Colonel Henry Luttrell of Luttrellstown and became Lord Lieutenant of County Dublin . Henry Lawes Luttrell , 2nd Earl of Carhampton ( born 1743 , died 1821 ) was the son of Simon , 6th Lord Luttrell of Luttrellstown . He served as a Member of Parliament for Bossiney in 1768 , and subsequently was Adjutant General of Ireland , where he became notorious for his role in suppressing the Irish Rebellion of 1798 . He was so hated that he sold Luttrellstown Castle in 1800 , but in a revenge attack the grave of his grandfather Colonel Henry Luttrell ( died 1717 ) was opened and the skull smashed . His popularity in Ireland is encapsulated by an incident in which the Dublin Post of 2 May 1811 reported his death . Luttrell demanded a retraction , which the newspaper printed , but it appeared under the headline Public Disappointment . Luttrell was an absentee landlord who also owned an estate in the West Indies but resided at Painshill Park in Surrey , England . His sister Anne Luttrell ( 1742-1808 ) , considered , and written about , as one of the great beauties of the ages . Anne was first married to a commoner , Christopher Horton ( or Houghton ) of Catton Hall , on 4 August 1765 . She later married Prince Henry , Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn , the sixth child of Frederick , Prince of Wales , and Augusta of Saxe-Gotha , and a younger brother of King George III . Their marriage took place at Hertford Street in Mayfair , London on 2 October 1771 . King George III did not approve of the marriage , as Anne was a commoner and previously married . Due to this , he later had the Royal Marriages Act 1772 passed to prevent any descendant of George II marrying without the consent of the sovereign , a law which remained in effect until passage of the Succession to the Crown Act 2013 , which , in addition to several other modifications , limited the requirement to obtain royal consent to only the first six persons in line to the throne ( rather than all descendants ) . Luke White . Henry Lawes Luttrell sold Luttrellstown to publisher Luke White , described as one of the most remarkable men that Ireland produced and ancestor of Lord Annaly . Luke White changed the name to Woodlands to eradicate the name of Luttrell , but his great grandson , 3rd Lord Annaly , reverted it to Luttrell Castle . In 1778 Luke White started as an impecunious book dealer , buying in Dublin and reselling around the country . By 1798 , during the rebellion , he helped the Irish government with a loan of 1 million pounds ( at £65 per £100 share at 5% ) . He became M.P . for Leitrim , and died in 1824 leaving properties worth £175,000 per annum . Lord Annaly . Eventually the estate devolved to his fourth son who was created Lord Annaly , peer of the United Kingdom . Visits by Queen Victoria . Queen Victoria first visited Luttrellstown in 1844 en route to the Duke of Leinster at Carton House . In 1900 , en route to the Viceregal Lodge she drank a cup of tea near the waterfall , an event commemorated by Lord Annaly with an obelisk made of six granite blocks from the Dublin mountains . Ernest Guinness . In 1927 the estate was bought by Ernest Guinness , as a wedding present for his daughter , Aileen Guinness , who married a cousin , Brinsley Sheridan Plunket . Aileen Plunket entertained on a grand scale . The castle became the site of hunt balls and other lavish social events . Her niece , Lady Caroline Blackwood wrote of growing up in that atmosphere in her book , Great Granny Webster . Private consortia . In 1983 it was sold to the private Swiss consortium Primwest , and in 2006 , it was bought by JP McManus and John Magnier . In 2007 , more than €20 million was spent on major upgrade work , including improvements to the Steel- and Mackenzie-designed championship golf course and the alpine style clubhouse . External links . - Luttrell Genealogy - Luttrellstown Castle official web site - The Luttrells in Ireland