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Title: Lutyens houses and gardens
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Weaver, Lawrence, 1876-1930
Subjects: Lutyens, Edwin Landseer, Sir, 1869-1944 Architecture, Domestic Gardens
Publisher: London, Offices of "Country life", ltd. (etc.) New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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hanting animal population, and a fascinatinghistory—these are Lambay. The island lies about threemiles from the coast of County Dublin. It is the lastoutcrop of the Wicklow Mountains, and owes its masses ofporphyry and greenstone to volcanic energies, quietedunknown ages ago. Its early history is obscure, but itneeds small stretch of imagination to look back and see it,like many another little island off British shores, as the homeof early Irish saints and hermits. To just such a retreatwould St. Patrick have loved to go when wearied by heathenenemies. On its slopes sheep might have been grazed bySt. Brigit : A beautiful ladder, for pagan folk To climb to the kingdom of Marys Son, as an early hymn describes her. The history of Lambayis worth setting down in its own right, but it is a long,albeit fascinating, narrative, and as I have told it fully in thelarger book I must here keep to Sir Edwins work on theisland. Suffice it to say that the old castle is of peculiar Lambay Castle 129
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o CO z HC/i< u < CI 2 L.H.G, 130 Lambay Castle architectural interest by reason of its original plan andtreatment, and may not unreasonably be attributed to soearly a date as Edward IV. The name castle does notstrictly belong to it, for it has no defensive works beyondits own strong walls ; it is, in fact, rather in the nature of ablockhouse. Reference to the plan (Fig. 93) shows that thehouse exists to-day as it was first built, except for additionson the north-east and south-east sides. These were madebefore it came into the possession of the Hon. Cecil Baringin 1904. Originally the ground storey consisted of a centralroom with four apartments, all of identical shape and size,opening from it, and the arrangement on the upper storeywas the same. The most striking elements of its designare the splays of the walls at each corner, which bring themto acute angles. At the beginning of the twentieth century the island wasin an almost derelict state, and only the outhouses o

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