Description
The Tallaght of six hundred years ago was owned by noblemen and churchmen who built castles, towers and a palace.
The Tallaght of three hundred years ago experienced a ‘building boom’ of mansions with the arrival of the city gentry.
This is the story untold of these strangers with strange names such as Wharton, Luttrell, Parsons and Talbot, ‘sons of privilege’ who owned every acre of land in Tallaght.
Who were the mansion builders of the gentry, such as the Ponsonby’s, Grierson’s and Shaw’s who made Tallaght their home.
This book searches into the lives of some of the nobility and gentry figures who were landowners in the Parish of Tallaght, who gained ownersip either by the sword, inheritance, beneficial marriage, corruption or purchase, their names today unmentioned, but live still, hidden in the history of Tallaght.