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Powerscourt House terrace & fountain (1800s) During the 16th century the house came into the ownership of the Powerscourt family. The family rose in wealth and prominence, and in the 18th century Richard Wingfield, 1st Viscount Powerscourt, commissioned the architect Richard Cassels to extensively alter and remodel the medieval castle to create a modern country house.
The waterfall is part of the Powerscourt Estate, who grant paid-access to the public through a separate visitor entrance (6 miles from the main estate entrance) during set times. At the base of the waterfall are visitor facilities, car parking, picnic and barbecue area, and various concessions.
Powerscourt Waterfall. The village is situated on the Glencullen River in the foothills of the Wicklow Mountains in the east of the island, just 5 minutes south of the Dublin border and some 24 km (15 mi) south of Dublin city centre. The R117 road, colloquially known as "The Twenty-One Bends" connects the town to the main N11 road to Dublin.
Powerscourt Estate, County Wicklow, Ireland Powerscourt Golf Club, on the estate; Powerscourt House, Dublin, a townhouse, interior is now a shopping centre; Powerscourt Waterfall, Glensoulan Valley on the River Dargle, County Wicklow, Ireland; Lord Francis Powerscourt, a fictional detective; Viscount Powerscourt, a title in the Irish peerage
The townhouse enabled him and his family to stay there when they were visiting from their Powerscourt Estate in Enniskerry, County Wicklow. The house was designed by Robert Mack and dates from between 1771 and 1774, and has been characterised as the "last-gasp Palladianism on a grand scale on a narrow street".
Leighton had visited Ireland to paint landscape in the summer of 1874, and possibly on other occasions in the 1870s. The first owner of the picture was Lord Powerscourt, whose Irish seat, the Powerscourt Estate, was near to the landscape that inspired Crenaia. [1] The little River Dargle flows through the estate and forms many waterfalls. [2]