Riversdale House, County Dublin

What is recorded here

Riversdale House in Oldorchard needed improvements, so Yeats raised the money by lecturing in America. Most houses send you down the road for a tin of paint. This one sent a Nobel Prize winner across the Atlantic to talk for his plaster.

Detached three-bay, two-storey house, c.1830. Double pile with natural slate roof. Timber sliding sash windows. Extended to rear. Former entrance with wrought-iron gates leading to rubble arched bridge over river.

Riversdale House was occupied by W.B. Yeats in 1932, and he raised money to improve it on American lecture tours. The entire complex is of great significance because of its literary historical association with one of the country's finest writers. The gates and entrance bridge provide an unusual character and pleasing setting to this complex.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 11216044

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