Qualla: Derryquin Castle https://qualla.com/derryquin-castle en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/0/y/derryquin-castle-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Derryquin Castle https://qualla.com/derryquin-castle Derryquin Castle: Introduction https://qualla.com/derryquin-castle/ Photo credit William Herbert Stokes (1845-1874), Public domain. The castle was never quite as old as it looked. Battlements, machicolations, a four-storey octagonal tower rising through the centre, a building that could play backdrop in a Gothic novel - the architect James Franklin Fuller, working for the Bland family, knew exactly the aesthetic he was after. Derryquin Castle was the Victorian idea of a castle, raised on an estate already in Bland hands for nearly two centuries. Then in 1922 the Irish Republican Army came up the drive with petrol, and the building's days were numbered.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/0/y/derryquin-castle-wp/gc0y-derryquin-castle-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Derryquin Castle: The Bland Inheritance https://qualla.com/derryquin-castle/ Photo credit William Herbert Stokes (1845-1874), Public domain. The Parknasilla estate, in which Derryquin sat, came into Bland hands in the late seventeenth century. The Very Reverend James Bland, an Englishman, moved to Ireland in 1692 as chaplain to Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, the newly appointed Lord Lieutenant. Bland had been educa...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/0/y/derryquin-castle-wp/gc0y-derryquin-castle-the-bland-inheritance.mp3 0:06 2 full Derryquin Castle: A Castle Designed to Look Old https://qualla.com/derryquin-castle/ Photo credit William Herbert Stokes (1845-1874), Public domain. James Franklin Fuller (1835-1924) was one of the most prolific Irish architects of his generation, a designer of churches and country houses with a particular flair for what we would now call historicism - new buildings that look as though they have stood for centuries. His three...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/0/y/derryquin-castle-wp/gc0y-derryquin-castle-a-castle-designed-to-look-old.mp3 0:06 3 full Derryquin Castle: Burned in 1922 https://qualla.com/derryquin-castle/ Photo credit William Herbert Stokes (1845-1874), Public domain. In 1891, James Franklin Bland sold the castle to the Warden family, who held it for the next three decades. Colonel Charles Wallace Warden owned it in 1922 when the Irish Republican Army came up the drive during the Irish Civil War and set the house alight. Derryquin was one of a...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/0/y/derryquin-castle-wp/gc0y-derryquin-castle-burned-in-1922.mp3 0:06 4 full Derryquin Castle: A Resort Built on the Ruins https://qualla.com/derryquin-castle/ Photo credit William Herbert Stokes (1845-1874), Public domain. Today the site lies within the grounds of the Parknasilla Resort and Spa Hotel. The Blands themselves had built the original Parknasilla Hotel in the 1890s, on the same estate, capitalising on the Victorian appetite for west-of-Ireland luxury. The hotel survived where the castle ...

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