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• The house was used as a filming location most famously in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon, which was filmed there before the 1974 fire.
• The Slazenger family’s love of aviation saw them invite Lynn Garrison to relocate his aerial film unit, aircraft collection and hangars, from Liexlip to the Powersourt airfield in 1973. The collection would feature in Irish productions, including the Blue Max, Darling Lili, Zeppelin and Von Richthofen and Brown. It remained here until 1981.
• The estate was used as a backdrop and ancestral home of the "Artist" and Moll Flanders love interest in the film Moll Flanders.
• The 2002 version of The Count of Monte Cristo was filmed there.
• David Copperfield was filmed there in 2000.
• Where's Jack? was filmed there in 1969.
• Outdoor scenes for the 2005 film The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse, involving William III of England (aka "Good King Billy") played by Bernard Hill and Queen Mary II played by Victoria Wood
• A key scene from the 1981 film Excalibur where Arthur fights Lancelot was filmed at the Waterfall

• Powerscourt House is the ancestral home of the fictional Lord Francis Powerscourt in David Dickinson's series of novels about the Victorian detective (Goodnight Sweet Prince, Death And The Jubilee, Death Called To The Bar).

• The gardens were used to record Celtic Woman's Songs from the Heart DVD and TV special.
• The Hallmark Channel original film "Honeymoon for One", starring Nicollette Sheridan was filmed at the estate using external scenes of the home and the waterfall. The film's plot included a fight between the owners of "Castlewilde" (Powerscourt) and local citizens concerned about the building of a golf course, which the real estate has.