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LINK to death record
Duckett' Grove was was built around 1830 by William Duckett. It was redesigned in a castellated Gothic revival style in the early 1800s. Duckett’s Grove is elaborately ornamented with oriels and niches containing statues. Several statues on pedestals surrounded the building and lined the approaches. The house is situated in the townland of Rainstown. At its height the house had a staff of eleven men to maintain the grounds alone.
After the death of William Duckett in 1908, the last male Duckett, his wife Maria Georgina Duckett lived on in the property until circa 1916. By this time she was no longer on speaking terms with her only daughter, Olive. The outcome of this was the disinheritance of her daughter following her death 1937, leaving her what is known as "the angry shilling", just one shilling, from an estate valued at £97,735 at the time.
Following the departure of the Ducketts, the estate was managed by an agent until 1921, and was subsequently managed by local farmers, and later by the Land Commission. The Duckett's Grove house was destroyed by fire overnight on 20 April 1933.
The Ducketts in 1901
LINKMarie Duckett was living in Dublin in 1911
In 1911 there are no Ducketts at the house nor a CREIGHTON
LINKThere are only three Ann(e)(ie) CREIGHTONs on the 1911 census
