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There has been a house at Hilton Park since the early 17th Century, although its earliest name was Killshanless until changed to Maddenton, presumably in recognition of the earlier Madden property in Co. Kildare and was finally changed to its present name at the end of the 18th Century. When Samuel Madden purchased the estate for his third son in 1734, he built a house incorporating the original building. In 1803 a servant, answering a call of nature or the bell to lunch, history does not relate which, put down a bucket of glowing coals from a cleaned out grate and burned down the house. It is said to have burnt for two days the glow being seen in Clones. The main and upper floors were completely gutted, many works of art and furniture perished and most of Samuel Madden’s archive, then housed at Hilton, was lost.
I must add a footnote to the foregoing about the fire. In 1984, I was made aware that a painting by Thomas Roberts had recently been sold by the Cynthia O’Connor Gallery in Dublin, which showed the artist sitting painting with his patron, Colonel Madden, looking over his shoulder in an extensive landscape of Upper Lough Erne with Knockninny in the background and most tantalising of all, with the only depiction of Manor Waterhouse to exist today. Tragically the Gallery did not offer this painting to the family before selling it. Apparently this painting was found in a frame behind a portrait in a house in Galway. I have no doubt in my mind that this painting belonged to the family and would have been removed to Hilton, when the family gave up Manor Waterhouse and because of its content I am equally certain that it would never have been disposed of. If I am right, this begs a number of questions. If this painting survived the fire, was it looted? If it was looted, how much else suffered the same fate? If there was much looting, might it be that the fire was started deliberately, as the family were away from home at the time? Which begs another question; how infallible is history?
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There has been a house at Hilton Park since the early 17th Century, although its earliest name was Killshanless until changed to Maddenton, presumably in recognition of the earlier Madden property in Co. Kildare and was finally changed to its present name at the end of the 18th... - Hilton Park
There has been a house at Hilton Park since the early 17th Century, although its earliest name was Killshanless until changed to Maddenton, presumably in recognition of the earlier Madden property in Co. Kildare and was finally changed to its present name at the end of the 18th... -Hilton Park
There has been a house at Hilton Park since the early 17th Century, although its earliest name was Killshanless until changed to Maddenton, presumably in recognition of the earlier Madden property in Co. Kildare and was finally changed to its present name at the end of the 18th ... -
Hilton Park
There has been a house at Hilton Park since the early 17th Century, although its earliest name was Killshanless until changed to Maddenton, presumably in recognition of the earlier Madden property in Co. Kildare and was finally changed to its present name at the end of the 18th Century. When Samuel Madden purchased the estate for his third son in 1734, he built a house incorporating the original building. In 1803 a servant, answering a call of nature or the bell to lunch, history does not relate which, put down a bucket of glowing coals from a cleaned out grate and burned down the house. It is said to have burnt for two days the glow being seen in Clones. The main and upper floors were completely gutted, many works of art and furniture perished and most of Samuel Madden’s archive, then housed at Hilton, was lost.
I must add a footnote to the foregoing about the fire. In 1984, I was made aware that a painting by Thomas Roberts had recently been sold by the Cynthia O’Connor Gallery in Dublin, which showed the artist sitting painting with his patron, Colonel Madden, looking over his shoulder in an extensive landscape of Upper Lough Erne with Knockninny in the background and most tantalising of all, with the only depiction of Manor Waterhouse to exist today. Tragically the Gallery did not offer this painting to the family before selling it. Apparently this painting was found in a frame behind a portrait in a house in Galway. I have no doubt in my mind that this painting belonged to the family and would have been removed to Hilton, when the family gave up Manor Waterhouse and because of its content I am equally certain that it would never have been disposed of. If I am right, this begs a number of questions. If this painting survived the fire, was it looted? If it was looted, how much else suffered the same fate? If there was much looting, might it be that the fire was started deliberately, as the family were away from home at the time? Which begs another question; how infallible is history?
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Hilton Park
There has been a house at Hilton Park since the early 17th Century, although its earliest name was Killshanless until changed to Maddenton, presumably in recognition of the earlier Madden property in Co. Kildare and was finally changed to its present name at the end of the 18th Century. When Samuel Madden purchased the estate for his third son in 1734, he built a house incorporating the original building. In 1803 a servant, answering a call of nature or the bell to lunch, history does not relate which, put down a bucket of glowing coals from a cleaned out grate and burned down the house. It is said to have burnt for two days the glow being seen in Clones. The main and upper floors were completely gutted, many works of art and furniture perished and most of Samuel Madden’s archive, then housed at Hilton, was lost.
I must add a footnote to the foregoing about the fire. In 1984, I was made aware that a painting by Thomas Roberts had recently been sold by the Cynthia O’Connor Gallery in Dublin, which showed the artist sitting painting with his patron, Colonel Madden, looking over his shoulder in an extensive landscape of Upper Lough Erne with Knockninny in the background and most tantalising of all, with the only depiction of Manor Waterhouse to exist today. Tragically the Gallery did not offer this painting to the family before selling it. Apparently this painting was found in a frame behind a portrait in a house in Galway. I have no doubt in my mind that this painting belonged to the family and would have been removed to Hilton, when the family gave up Manor Waterhouse and because of its content I am equally certain that it would never have been disposed of. If I am right, this begs a number of questions. If this painting survived the fire, was it looted? If it was looted, how much else suffered the same fate? If there was much looting, might it be that the fire was started deliberately, as the family were away from home at the time? Which begs another question; how infallible is history? -, - - Inserts post categories, - - Karentohedders - LocalBizz Organization & Community - Helping Start-ups & Local Business Owners - Add , Rate & Review local Businesses & Local Business owners -
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