Farmleigh
Sign in to saveFarmleigh is the official Irish state guest house. It was formerly one of the Dublin residences of the Guinness family. It is situated on an elevated position above the River Liffey to the northwest of the Phoenix Park, in Castleknock. The estate of consists of extensive private gardens with stands of mature cypress, pine and oak trees, a boating pond, walled garden, sunken garden, out offices and a herd of rare native Kerry cattle. It was purchased by the Government of Ireland from Edward Guinness, 4th Earl of Iveagh in 1999 for €29.2 million. A state body—the Office of Public Works (OPW)—spe
Key facts
- Building.name
- Farmleigh
- Building.image
- Farmleigh House facade.jpg
- Building.caption
- Façade
- Building.pushpin_map
- Dublin
- Building.pushpin_map_caption
- Location within Dublin
- Building.architectural_style
- Edwardian
- Building.owner
- Government of Ireland
- Building.current_tenants
- Used when Heads of Government and Heads of State visit Ireland.
- Building.location
- Castleknock, Dublin, Ireland
- Building.construction_start_date
- 18th century (with significant reconstruction from 1881)
- Building.renovation_date
- 1881–1884, 1896, 1901, 1999–2001
- Building.ren_cost
- €23 million (for 1999 works)
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Farmleigh is the official Irish state guest house. It was formerly one of the Dublin residences of the Guinness family. It is situated on an elevated position above the River Liffey to the northwest of the Phoenix Park, in Castleknock. The estate of consists of extensive private gardens with stands of mature cypress, pine and oak trees, a boating pond, walled garden, sunken garden, out offices and a herd of rare native Kerry cattle. It was purchased by the Government of Ireland from Edward Guinness, 4th Earl of Iveagh in 1999 for €29.2 million. A state body—the Office of Public Works (OPW)—spent in the region of €23 million restoring the house, gardens and curvilinear glasshouses, bringing the total cost to the state to €52.2 million. Farmleigh was opened to the public in July 2001.
==History== thumb|Garden gate at Farmleigh Farmleigh was once a small (two-storey) Georgian house built in the mid-18th century. It originally belonged to the Coote and then Trench families. Farmleigh Bridge was added to the estate in the 1870s to carry electricity lines from the mill race turbine on the Strawberry Beds to the house.