Castle or fortified house in Poulnamuck, County Kerry

What is recorded here

I suspect Castle or fortified house in Poulnamuck might have puzzled a family trying to decide what to do with an old stronghold once its grander days were over. One would suggest fixing it, another would ask who was paying, and the smallest job would suddenly look very large.

Detached gable-fronted single-bay three-storey building, built c. 1450, originally a tower house with single-bay three-stage engaged circular turret to north-west elevation. Extensively renovated and truncated, c. 1830, with openings remodelled to accommodate use as folly and ogee dome added to turret. Derelict, c. 1990, renovated and refenestrated in 1998. Replacement pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystack and having lead and slate profiled dome with weathercock to turret. Uncoursed rubble stone walls. Limestone relieving arches to openings, with reused sill to ground floor south having cuts for two mullions. South elevation has three-light window with red brick corbelled heads and slate sills, c. 1830. Leaded timber framed window to north. Limestone spiral staircase within west turret. Tall hedge to roadway. Building now within garden of late twentieth century house.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21306603

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