Deerfield

Deerfield is a large house in private gardens within the Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland, currently the official residence of the United States Ambassador to Ireland and the official residence of the Chief Secretary in Ireland before Irish independence. It is sited near the centre of the Phoenix Park, just off Chesterfield Avenue and close to Áras an Uachtaráin. A grand set of entrance gates and mature trees and shrubbery obscure the main house, but it can be glimpsed from the southern parkland. The house is surrounded by sixty two acres of private grounds. Deerfield was completed in 1776. Built by Col. John Blaquiere, Chief Secretary of the British government and Bailiff of the Phoenix Park. The house of Col. Blaquiere, purchased by the...