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Durhamstown Castle

House, 16th/17th century
Durhamstown Castle
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Durhamstown Castle has four ground-floor vaults and no defensive features. Plenty of room to hide the good wine, then, and absolutely nothing to stop the relatives reaching it.

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Situated on a fairly level landscape. According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) Lord Ranallah, a Protestant, owned 300 acres at Doramstowne in Ardbrackan parish in 1640, and on the premises were ‘one castle and a stone house’. He also owned most of the rest of the parish (Simington 1940, 232-35). This is a two-storey house with attic aligned N-S and there are four vaults at the ground floor aligned E-W. The original doorway might have been by the pointed doorway in a stairs tower at the S end of the E wall. There are no defensive features and the house was adapted in the nineteenth century when an E-W wing was added at the N end.
Situated on a fairly level landscape. According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) Lord Ranallah, a Protestant, owned 300 acres at Doramstowne in Ardbrackan parish in 1640, and on the premises were ‘one castle and a stone house’. He also owned most of the rest of the parish (Simington 1940, 232-35). This is a two-storey house with attic aligned N-S and there are four vaults at the ground floor aligned E-W. The original…

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME024-011

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

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Recorded monument

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Pictures: JP, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Kieran Campbell, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0; Garry Dickinson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0; Rob Hurson, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Aubrey Martin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Albert Bridge, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Ronnie Nijboer, Wikimedia Commons · CC0; Mark Duncan, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Nigel Thompson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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