The Shell House, Bushy Park

The Shell House is a decorative stone folly constructed as a summerhouse and tea room for the Shaw family at their Bushy Park estate in Rathfarnham, Dublin. Sir Robert Shaw acquired the parkland in 1796 as a dowry gift when he married Maria Wilkinson, daughter of Abraham Wilkinson. The structure exemplifies the Rococo fashion for shell-adorned grottoes and follies that swept across European est...