[citation needed] Set within 400 acres of partially wooded parkland, Newbridge House is one of the finest surviving examples of Georgian architecture.

The demesne now forms one of Fingal's regional parks, and contains historic buildings including the main house, a show farm and a cafe and shop.

However, Bishop Cobbe had a prior interest in these lands, having come to the financial assistance of the Weyms family (port owners) some years earlier.

[citation needed] The Archbishop was succeeded by his son, Thomas, who in 1751 married Lady Elizabeth Beresford, daughter of the Earl of Tyrone.

In the Red Drawing Room, added by them, they lavishly entertained and hung many superb pictures purchased on their behalf by the incumbent of Donabate Church, the Rev.

He threw down the "wretched mud cabins" occupied by his tenants and built new houses on his estates which were paid for by the sale of some of the family's most prized paintings, such as the Gastor Poussin and a Hobbema.

Before her death she persuaded Thomas Maberley Cobbe, a grandnephew of her late husband, to return to Newbridge from America to take over the estate.

[citation needed] Part of the land which once made up the estate now contains Tesco Donabate Distribution Centre, the 11th largest building by floor area in the world.