Published by Fingal County Council
<p style='background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); border:0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(74, 74, 74); font-family:"Avenir Next", Avenir, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size:16px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; margin:0px 0px 1.5rem; text-align:start; text-decoration-color:initial; text-decoration-style:initial; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; word-spacing:0px;'> </p><p style='background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); border:0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(74, 74, 74); font-family:"Avenir Next", Avenir, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size:16px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; margin:0px 0px 1.5rem; text-align:start; text-decoration-color:initial; text-decoration-style:initial; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; word-spacing:0px;'><span style='color:rgb(33,37,41); font-family:Arial; font-size:1.1rem;'><span style='border:0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing:border-box; line-height:1.5;'>This data set shows the shows the details of then number of visitors/pedestrians visting the playground which is located in the beautiful grounds of Newbridge House.</span></span></p><div style='background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); border:0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family:system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", "Liberation Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size:16px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; line-height:1.5; text-align:start; text-decoration-color:initial; text-decoration-style:initial; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; word-spacing:0px;'><h3 style='border:0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(54, 54, 54); font-family:mrs-eaves-roman-lining, sans-serif; font-size:2.4rem; font-weight:400; line-height:1.1; margin:0px 0px 2.8rem;'><span style='color:rgb(33,37,41); font-family:Arial; font-size:1.1rem;'><span style='border:0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing:border-box; line-height:1.5;'>Newbridge House is a Georgian Villa built to the design of James Gibbs in 1747 for the then-Archbishop of Dublin , Charles Cobbe. In 1717, Charles Cobbe (1686-1765) came to Ireland as private secretary and chaplain to his kinsman Charles Paulet, the secondDuke of Boltonand Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. He was appointed Bishop of Killala in 1720 and his career progressed with successive bishoprics until he was enthroned as Archbishop of Dublinin 1743.</span></span><br /> </h3></div><div style='background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); border:0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(74, 74, 74); font-family:"Avenir Next", Avenir, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size:16px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; line-height:1.5; margin-bottom:2rem; text-align:start; text-decoration-color:initial; text-decoration-style:initial; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; word-spacing:0px;'><p style='border:0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family:proxima-nova, sans-serif; font-size:1.1rem !important; line-height:1.6; margin:0px 0px 1rem;'><span style='font-family:Arial;'>Cobbe began purchasing lands on the Donabate peninsula in 1736, and commissioned the celebrated architect James Gibbsin 1744 to design a plan for the rebuilding of Newbridge House. Work began in 1747 and Newbridge is Gibbs’s only executed work in Ireland.</span></p><p style='border:0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family:proxima-nova, sans-serif; font-size:1.1rem !important; line-height:1.6; margin:0px 0px 1rem;'><span style='font-family:Arial;'>The Archbishop gave the near-finished building to his only surviving son, Thomas (1733-1814) in 1755, on the latter’s marriage to Lady Elizabeth (Betty) Beresford, youngest daughter of the 1</span><span style='font-family:Arial; font-size:0.75em;'><span style='border:0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing:border-box; line-height:1.5;'>st</span></span><span style='font-family:Arial;'>Earl of Tyrone. By extending the house, decorating it with ornamental stucco, collecting pictures, porcelain and commissioning furniture from Irish cabinetmakers, Thomas and Lady Betty left a significant mark on Newbridge which is still evident today. Their son, Charles Cobbe (1756-1798), married Anne Power Trench of Garbally, Co. Galway in 1778 but also ran up considerable debts. These eventually resulted in Thomas selling some estates in Louth and their large townhouse in Palace Row. Charles predeceased his father.</span></p><p style='border:0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family:proxima-nova, sans-serif; font-size:1.1rem !important; line-height:1.6; margin:0px 0px 1rem;'><span style='font-family:Arial;'>In 1810, Thomas gifted Newbridge to his eldest grandson, Charles Cobbe (1781-1857), who, as well as raising his own five children here, provided a centre of home life for the numerous children of his brothers. The family injected new vigour into life at Newbridge, and was concerned with the welfare and the living conditions of their tenants. Charles’s daughter,</span><a style='border:0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(120, 102, 41); font-family:inherit; line-height:1.5; text-decoration:none;' target='_blank' href='https://newbridgehouseandfarm.com/frances-power-cobbe-a-fingal-daughter-of-feminism/' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'><span style='font-family:Arial;'>Frances Power Cobbe,</span></a><span style='font-family:Arial;'>would become a noted philanthropist, feminist and writer, and would be the first publicly to advocate university education for women. Charles occupied Newbridge for 47 years and on his death, it passed to his son, also named Charles (1811-1886), from whom it passed to the latter’s nephew who came of age in 1905.</span></p><p style='background-attachment:initial; background-clip:initial; background-image:initial; background-origin:initial; background-position:initial; background-repeat:initial; background-size:initial; border:0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family:proxima-nova, sans-serif; font-size:1.1rem !important; line-height:1.6; margin:0cm 0px 1rem;'><span style='font-family:Arial; font-size:12pt;'><span style='border:0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing:border-box; line-height:1.5;'>In that year Thomas Maberly Cobbe married Eleanor Colville Frankland, the elegant daughter of an Anglo-American heiress and descendant of one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, John Jay. The couple, setting up at Newbridge at the beginning of the 20</span></span><span style='font-family:Arial; font-size:0.75em;'><span style='border:0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing:border-box; line-height:1.5;'>th</span></span><span style='font-family:Arial; font-size:12pt;'><span style='border:0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing:border-box; line-height:1.5;'>century, entertainedguests and raised their familyuntil the estate passed to their son in 1933. When he died in 1984 it passed to his two nephews and his niece who had grown up in the house.</span></span></p><p style='border:0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family:proxima-nova, sans-serif; font-size:1.1rem !important; line-height:1.6; margin:0px 0px 1rem;'><span style='font-family:Arial;'>In 1985 the family gave the house and sold the demesne to Dublin County Council (now Fingal County Council) entering into a rare agreement under which the historic family-owned pictures, furniture, chattels and documents, are kept in situ whilst the Cobbe family remains in residence. As a result of this agreement, the interiors of Newbridge House are remarkably complete and amongst the best preserved in Ireland.</span></p><p style='border:0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family:proxima-nova, sans-serif; font-size:1.1rem !important; line-height:1.6; margin:0px 0px 1rem;'> </p><div style='border:0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing:border-box; font-family:inherit; line-height:1.5;'><div style='border:0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing:border-box; font-family:inherit; line-height:1.5;'><span style='color:rgb(33,37,41); font-family:Arial; font-size:12pt;'><span style='border:0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing:border-box; line-height:1.5;'>For latest information look up </span></span><span style='color:rgb(33,37,41); font-family:Arial; font-size:16px;'><span style='border:0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing:border-box; line-height:1.5;'><strong>https://newbridgehouseandfarm.com/</strong></span></span></div></div></div>
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