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Powerscourt House terrace & fountain (1800s) During the 16th century the house came into the ownership of the Powerscourt family. The family rose in wealth and prominence, and in the 18th century Richard Wingfield, 1st Viscount Powerscourt, commissioned the architect Richard Cassels to extensively alter and remodel the medieval castle to create a modern country house.
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Powerscourt Estate, County Wicklow, Ireland Powerscourt Golf Club, on the estate; Powerscourt House, Dublin, a townhouse, interior is now a shopping centre; Powerscourt Waterfall, Glensoulan Valley on the River Dargle, County Wicklow, Ireland; Lord Francis Powerscourt, a fictional detective; Viscount Powerscourt, a title in the Irish peerage
Wicklow, "the garden of Ireland" Glendalough, 6th-century monastic site with Irish round tower [2] Powerscourt Estate, house, grounds and gardens (together with the nearby Powerscourt Waterfall) [2] Russborough House, an example of Irish Palladian architecture, designed by Richard Cassels, built between 1741 and 1755 [17]
Richard Wingfield, 3rd Viscount Powerscourt (1730–1788), an MP for County Wicklow who married Lady Amelia Stratford, daughter of John Stratford, 1st Earl of Aldborough, in 1760. [2] Hon. Isabella Wingfield (d. 1808), who married Sir Charles Style, 5th Baronet, in 1770. [2] Lord Powerscourt died on 21 October 1751.
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The townhouse enabled him and his family to stay there when they were visiting from their Powerscourt Estate in Enniskerry, County Wicklow. The house was designed by Robert Mack and dates from between 1771 and 1774, and has been characterised as the "last-gasp Palladianism on a grand scale on a narrow street".