The summers of 1724 and 1725 were spent in this country-seat, which his
friend Sheridan built for himself amongst the wildest of the Cavan heaths.
Quilca stood near a little lake surrounded by trees. Here Sheridan tried a
revival of the Roman chariot-races; the slope close by the lake was used
for a theatre; the place is redolent with memories of Swift, who loved the
place, though he perpetuated in verse the memory of its disorders, its
dilapidations, and the general shortcomings, in which it reflected its
owner's character and that of his scolding wife.