Charles Monck, 1st Viscount Monck
Charles Stanley Monck, 1st Viscount Monck, was born in 1754 and died on 9 June 1802. He was the 1st son of Thomas Monck MP, by his wife, Judith Mason, daughter of Robert Mason, of Mason Brook. He was MP for Gorey from 1790 to 1798. He gained the title of 1st Viscount Monck in 1801 as a reward for voting for the Act of Union (1800). He had already been created Baron Monck, of Ballytrammon in the County of Wexford, in 1797, also in the Peerage of Ireland. Country seat His country seat was Charleville House which overlooks a water meadow for the River Dargle, enjoying frontage onto the Killough River. The estate is located 3 km from the village of Enniskerry and 4 km from Powerscourt Waterfall. The Monck family became owners of the estate in 1705. That was the year Charles Monck (the grandfather of the 1st Viscount) married Angela Hitchcock, an heiress. A fire in 1792 destroyed the original building. The Viscount commissioned the present structure and had it designed by Whitmore Davis. Building was not completed until 1830, the unduly long time occasioned by the 1798 rebellion. In 1797, the Viscount also built four identical