{"id":604,"date":"2007-04-10T02:33:22","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T02:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.design42.com\/ireland\/?p=604"},"modified":"2023-08-26T12:47:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T12:47:29","slug":"dromoland-gazebo-belvedere-folly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.design42.com\/ireland\/2007\/04\/dromoland-gazebo-belvedere-folly\/","title":{"rendered":"Dromoland Gazebo – Belvedere Folly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Driving down the M18 somewhere past Shannon, I saw something. Using Google Maps, I retraced my course and found it is the Belvedere Folly, the Gazebo at Dromoland Castle.
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\"The<\/a>

The Follies and Garden Buildings of Ireland
by James Howley<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cProbably the finest of all the Irish gazebos is the one at Dromoland Castle, Newmarket-on-Fergus, Co. Clare. It survives from a formal baroque garden of the early eighteenth century, which was subsequently overlaid by a more natural landscape later in the same century. The early garden and its ornamental buildings were commissioned by Sir Edward O\u2019Brien. The drawings for it, including a fine plan of the layout, mentioned earlier, have survived. The gazebo stands some distance from the house, which is now a hotel, on top of an artificial mound on a flat hill commanding extensive views, and would have been well suited for its intended purpose of watching horse-racing. \u201c<\/p>\n

The Follies and Garden Buildings of Ireland, James Howley<\/p>\n

Sir Edward O’Brien, 2nd Baronet commissioned\u00a0architect John Aheron to design the Gazebo around 1740. It is situated on Turret Hill, across the road from the main entrance gateway.<\/p>\n

It was likely built as a vantage for observing the training of horses. That makes it a belvedere, a raised structure from which to view.<\/p>\n

\"Driving<\/a>

Driving down the M18 somewhere past Shannon, the Gazebo at Dromoland Castle<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Belvedere<\/a>

Belvedere Folly, the Gazebo at Dromoland Castle<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Gazebo<\/a>

Gazebo at Dromoland Castle, Newmarket-on-Fergus, Co. Clare<\/p><\/div>\n

New: Driving through County Clare ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Driving down the M18 somewhere past Shannon, I saw something. Using Google Maps, I retraced my course and found it is the Belvedere Folly, the Gazebo at Dromoland Castle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-castles","category-ireland"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.design42.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/featured_image-Dromoland_Gazebo-Belvedere_Folly.jpg?fit=750%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eR8A-9K","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.design42.com\/ireland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.design42.com\/ireland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.design42.com\/ireland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.design42.com\/ireland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.design42.com\/ireland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.design42.com\/ireland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3010,"href":"https:\/\/www.design42.com\/ireland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions\/3010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.design42.com\/ireland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.design42.com\/ireland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.design42.com\/ireland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.design42.com\/ireland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}