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Had I not seen the caption on this image I would have thought that I was looking at a castle in Spain or some far land! A beautiful scene that is nearly on the doorstep of Library Towers! Killiney has changed a wee bit since this shot was taken by Mr. French...

[/photos/scorbet/ Sharon.corbet] confirms that the castle has also changed a bit since - at least in name. Now called Manderley Castle and owned by musician Enya, Victoria Castle was built in the 1840s by QC and MP Robert Warren. [/photos/91549360@N03/ O Mac] suggests that it was captured before before the early 1880s (when Killiney railway station was built and would've been visible in the middle distance, as it is in the [https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.2645256,-6.1120881,2a,42y,188.65h,82.36t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1scXwfrYwaGeMnKicrim7Tjw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 modern StreetView).

Photographer: Robert French

Collection: <a href="http://catalogue.nli.ie/Collection/vtls000313414">Lawrence Photograph Collection]

Date: Catalogue range c.1865-1914. Perhaps before c.1882 (railway)

NLI Ref: L_CAB_00434

You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie

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Source Victoria Castle East Gate, Killiney, Co. Dublin
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Camera location53° 15′ 46.79″ N, 6° 06′ 46.49″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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