Castle Curious — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Detached three-bay three-storey rectangular plan house, built c. 1845, now roofless. Recessed bowed turrets to north-east and south-west. Crenellations and limestone eaves course to roofline. Rubble limestone masonry walls. Square-headed window openings with roughly dressed limestone lintels and sills. Round-headed door opening to north-east, now blocked up. Sandstone plaque to east wall. Remains of mill to north.

Castle Curious was personally designed and constructed by local eccentric Johnny Roche, who used the building as a workshop, smithy and home. The structure is built in the castle style and retains the remains of a complex interior plan. The carved date-stone to the east elevation was removed from a bridge built by Roche and inserted into the wall of Castle Curious after his death. The structure is a local landmark in the area and the site retains the ruins of a mill, in the same ownership and built on the banks of the River Awbeg.

This does not grant access. Most recorded buildings are privately owned; view them only from public ground unless the owner allows entry.