Brown Study
The Brown Study with its wood-panelled walls, tall oak doors corner chimney piece, built in desk and vaulted ceiling is decorated as it was in the 1720s when the house was first built. This room was originally used as a bedroom or closet and then later as a breakfast parlour in the early twentieth century.
Between the windows is a piece of the Volunteer fabric. Printed on a mixture of linen and cotton, in Harpurs Mills in nearby Leixlip, it depicts the review of the Leinster Volunteers in the Phoenix Park in 1782. Thomas Conolly was active in the Volunteer leadership in both Counties Derry and Kildare. The Volunteers were a local militia force established during the American War of Independence to defend Ireland from possible French invasion, while the regular troops were in America. They were later linked to the Patriot party in the Irish House of Commons led by Henry Grattan, and their campaigns for political reform.
Paintings
King William of Orange by Garrett Morphey (d. 1716). Reputedly a present from the sitter to William Conolly.
Modern Midnight Conversation, after William Hogarth.
Thomas Wentworth, After Sir Anthony Van Dyck. He was an ancestor of Lady Anne Conolly.
Dean Jonathan Swift, after Francis Bindon (1690-1765).
Furniture
Oak deed chest inscribed with William Conollys name.
A built in late Georgian mahogany bookcase.
A Georgian Irish mahogany side table.
A pair of nineteenth century oak dining chairs in the Jacobean style.
