Architectural fragment in Palmerstown Demesne

Discovered by Mr. Brian McCabe, a local historian. Located in a narrow strip of overgrown tree and scrub-covered ground along the W shore of a small lake in Palmerstown Demesne, which has been developed as a golf course. A well-dressed, chamfered limestone arch-stone (L 1.2m; Wth 0.25m; T 0.21m), with parallel tooling on the faces and punch-dressing on the soffit is reused to form the N side of a very low ope (H 1m) in the E gable wall of a small, poorly preserved, ivy clad structure, of which only portions of the N and E gable walls survive (L 7.2m E-W; Wth 4.4m N-S; H 3m), built of heavily mortared, mixed large and small roughly dressed stones. The walls (T 0.46m) are each pierced by a tall ope in pointed, Gothic-arch style with rough, undressed voussoirs, and some tufa is used in the jambs (N wall ope H 2.4m; Wth 0.87m: S wall ope (to the N of the arch stone) H 2.5m; Wth 1.48m). This structure appears to be landscape demesne feature, while the reused arch-stone may have come from Kerdiffstown Church (KD019-006001-) c. 150m to the W. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011