Temploegue House a history

I wonder if many people who travel to work in the morning via the Tallaght Bypass, as they wait for the lights to change at Templeogue, realise that to their left, stands a building that James II slept in, after defeat in the Battle of the Boyne?
Templeogue House, also originally also referred to as Templeogue Castle, was owned by the Harold family in the 14^th Century.

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The owner of the lands upon which the house stands on had the duty to maintain the city watercourse, and in return they received tributes of corn from the mills that used the water.
In the 16^th Century, ownership of the house passed the Talbot family, who would be more famously known for their ownership of Malahide Castle, which they lived in for almost 800 years.
Henry Talbot lost control of the house, when he was transplanted in Connaught under the Cromwellian purges, but the family later regained control of the house, and it was leased by Henry’s son James to Sir Thomas Domvile in 1686 for the sum of £3,000, and he took ownership of the building upon James’s death at the Battle of Aughrim.

Possession was passed onto his son Compton, who rebuilt the house and laid out the gardens.
He was to court controversy when he obtained a pardon for his Nephew, Lord Santry, who was convicted of the murder of a servant at Palmerston Fair in 1738.
Sir Domvile had threated to cut off water supplies to the city unless the pardon was granted.
Sadly after passing, the house was left to rack and ruin, and was in quite an uninhabitable state when a Mr Gogerty became the new owner.

He demolished the existing structure, and built a completely new dwelling in its place.

In 1940 the house, now known as “Konstanz” after the town of the shore of lake Constance, once again came to prominence due to a Garda raid on the property.
In one of the bedrooms officers found German military clothing and medals, a parachute, $20,000 in cash and documents relating to espionage.
Then owner of Templeogue House, Stephen Carroll Held, acted as a go-between with the IRA and the Nazi regime.
His house guest, who had recently fled, was an SS officer by the name of Hermann Goertz, who landed by parachute into Ballivor Co Meath, with orders to advance plans for an IRA backed Nazi invasion of Ireland.

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In 1985 the walls which once surrounded nearby Templeogue Mill were demolished to make way for the new Tallaght Bypass.
In 1996, what was to be a ten year excavation of the site was undertaken by Archeologists, and quite a number of artefacts were found, including furniture and ornaments.
The building is now known as Saint Michael’s House, and caters for people requiring the need of disability support services.