Cheere busts at Tullynally, Ireland

The Cheere Library Busts at Tullynally Castle, Ireland.

Update 10 June 2023.

I now have some much better photographs of these busts and will construct an entirely new post on the subject of these busts.

The woodwork of the library probably dates from the 1820's.

Records show a ‘bookroom’ existed within the house from 1740 onwards, and the first inventory of books there was compiled in 1790, with a second made in the mid-19th century.

Image Courtesy of the website of the very excellent The Irish Aesthete.

see - https://theirishaesthete.com/2013/05/06/a-bibliophiles-bliss/

https://theirishaesthete.com/tag/tullynally/

https://theirishaesthete.com/2014/11/12/feeling-bookish/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH24gg7QgVE