Peter Digges La Touche

Estate

Belfield

Dublin

Purchased 30th Nov -0001

Description

Suburban estate outside Dublin that became the site of University College Dublin. Finola O'Kane Crimmins has posited that the Belfield estate was named by Peter Digges LaTouche after the Belfield estate of Patrick Lynch in St Mary Jamaica.

Finola O'Kane 'What's in a Name? The Connected Histories of Belfield, Co. Dublin and Belfield Plantation, Jamaica'. We are grateful to Dr O'Kane for advanced site of this piece.

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