Duckett’s Grove
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Duckett’s Grove was the 18th, 19th and early 20th century home of the Duckett family. It was the centre of a 12,000 acre estate that dominated the Carlow landscape for over 300 years.
The mansion was transformed into a castellated Gothic fantasy by Thomas A. Cobden for J. D. Duckett in 1830.
The estate house was used as a training camp in the early 1920s by the Irish Republican Army (IRA). It was owned by a local farmers’ co-operative after that until it was taken over by the Land Commission.
In the early 1930s the house and surrounding lands was owned by a local firm called Thompson’s Engineering Works.
The main building was burned in 1933. Carlow County Council acquired the property in 2005.
It’s an impressive place …. the stone work is amazing …. it’s a pity there’s only a shell on the inside.
I tried to find some info on the net about the Duckett family but failed to find anything of consequence.
The Duckett family motto was “Spectemur agendo – Let us be judged by our actions.”
I wonder what actions they took during their 300 year occupation of Duckett’s Grove?
Good or bad? Anyone care to enlighten me?
I wonder if this is anything to go by?
Paddy, there was a Duckett family who were Anglo Indians from Calcutta. They were mostly in the Indian Railways. Sometime during the late fifties and early sixties, most Anglo Indians emigrated to Australia.
Rummuser ~ The crowd above were well gone by the 30′s.
They had a 300 year dynasty … they probably thought they’d last forever … how wrong they were.