Manderley Castle, Victorian castle in Killiney, Ireland
Manderley Castle is a Victorian-era residence in Killiney, south of Dublin, built across three floors with turrets topped by battlements. The property includes pointed arch windows and landscaped grounds that extend across fourteen thousand square meters.
Judge Robert Warren built Victoria Castle in 1840 to mark Queen Victoria's accession to the throne. A fire gutted the interior in 1928, and Sir Thomas Power of the whiskey-distilling family restored it and renamed it Ayesha Castle, after the goddess who rises from the flames in H. Rider Haggard's novel She. Enya bought the house in 1997 and called it Manderley, after the house in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca.
Enya bought the castle in 1997 for €3.8 million, reportedly outbidding Michael Flatley, and renamed it after the fictional house in Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel Rebecca. The earlier name Ayesha came from Sir Thomas Power, who restored the fire-damaged interior in 1928 and took the name of the goddess who rose from the flames in H. Rider Haggard's novel She.
The castle remains a private home with heightened security and no public access is permitted. The area is reachable by public transport or car from Dublin in roughly 30 minutes.
A now sealed underground passage once linked the grounds directly to Killiney Beach. This corridor formerly offered residents a private route to the sea without leaving the estate.
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