This room was a state bedroom at the time of Speaker Conolly's death in 1729 and the Print Room was originally an ante chamber. He probably used this room to receive very important people in the morning as was the custom of the French court. The purpose of the room was largely symbolic and the state bed indicated the owner's high social status.

The half-tester bed has its original eighteenth-century silk hangings and came from a villa near Lucca in Italy (donated by the Dallas Chapter of the Irish Georgian Society). The four painted chairs are probably Venetian. The gilded armchairs, on either side of the bed, have carved Conolly crests and monograms. They date from about 1850 and are original to Castletown (donated by the Brady Foundation). In the nineteenth century this room became a library and the mock leather wall paper dates from the 1840s.

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