During the eighteenth century it was fashionable for ladies to cut out favourite prints and decorative borders and apply them to walls or screens. This is one of the earliest intact print rooms and is the only eighteenth- century one left in Ireland. It dates from 1768 and William Reaton was paid for altering the woodwork in the room that year. This print room was created by Lady Louisa Conolly and her sister Lady Sarah Bunbury. Lady Sarah later married the Ron. George Napier and lived nearby at Oakley Park, Celbridge. Their other sister Lady Kildare decorated a room at Carton, County Kildare, in a similar manner.

A sketch for arranging the prints on the walls was discovered in the house and it is believed to be in Lady Louisa's hand. Lady Sarah was of considerable help in acquiring prints in London for the room and her engraved portrait, 'Lady Sarah Bunbury Sacrificing to the Graces' (after Reynolds), forms the centrepiece. The original is at the Art Institute, Chicago. Over the chimney-piece, there is a print of Garrick between the muses of Comedy and Tragedy. Opposite, a print shows the actress Sarah Siddons in a tragic pose. Lady Louisa had a small circular Tuscan temple built in Mrs Siddons' memory in the park close to the river Liffey in front of the house.

The Louis XVI style furniture is covered with Beauvais tapestry depicting the fables of La Fontaine. It came from Luttrellstown Castle, County Dublin (a gift of Mrs Douglas Auchincloss of New York to the Irish Georgian Society).

All text copyright of Dr. Paul Caffrey. Copies of the guidebook are available from Dr. Caffrey at caffreyp@ncad.ie