Villa for rent in Wicklow
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- 7 bedroom, 5 bathroom
- Sleeps 10 - 14 People
- €25000
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€30000
Per
Week
Luggala was
known as "the most decorative honeypot in Ireland". The jewel in the
crown of all the places to stay in Ireland, it was famous for the
"raffish weekends" thrown there by the present owner's mother, Oonagh
Guinness, one of the "Golden Guinness girls", and it features
colourfully in Lord Bath's memoirs. It has also been used as a setting
for many films, most recently King Arthur.
In 1790 Peter
Latouche, the Dublin banker, acquired the lands of Upper and Lower
Rathdown. It is on these lands that much of modern Greystones is
situated. He set about improving the houses and grounds at Luggala,
sparing no expense to make it the ultimate in glamorous grandeur.
Luggala was his hunting lodge and holiday home set deep in the Wicklow
mountains. Peter allowed Luggala to be used by "respectable strangers,
wherein the spirit of Irish hospitality, beds, and attendants are
provided". This tradition of hospitality at Luggala extends to this day
under the present owner.
The house is at the heart of a huge
estate - the drive wanders down the mountainside through woods above
the lake for nearly two miles. Lawns sweep up to the front of the
deceptively small looking house.
The main bedroom is on the
ground floor, as is a sitting room with a huge plasma tv, a drawing
room, dining room and kitchen. The library is in the courtyard as is
the indoor pool. Up one flight of stairs there is a bedroom with a four
poster bed and its own bathroom. from the landing a staircase leads to
a twin room, also with a bathroom. To the left is a double bedroom with
two doors - one onto a corridor that leads to the second staircase and
a twin bedded shamrock room and a single bedded shamrock room and two
bathrooms to serve the three bedrooms. At the end of this corridor is
the minstrels gallery. From the minstrels' gallery one can go down to
another bedroom with a bathroom, overlooking the courtyard.
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