Dromana


For over five hundred years the castle and mansion-house of Dromana in the County Waterford has been the seat of one of the principal families of the south of Ireland, the Fitzgeralds, Lords of Decies (later Villiers and now Villiers-Stuart)
The Villiers-Stuart papers contains documents and volumes relating to the estate, family and political affairs of the Fitzgerald, Villiers, Mason, Alland and Villiers-Stuart families of Dromana, Viscounts and Earls Grandison and Barons Stuart Decies.
Dromana House & Gardens have a 17th century house overlooking a wild and wonderful garden. Dromana House is the home of Emily and James Villiers Stuart. On route is Dromana Bridge with its Hindu Gothic Gate Lodge, which was built in the 19th Century to mark the marriage of a popular local landlord and MP.