What is recorded here

Indicated, Barrettstown is the buried skeleton of a 17th century fortified house, its grassed-over walls still marking an eight-metre chamber beside the older tower. The red-brick patches inside the stairs-tower suggest generations of hands smoothing rough stone, perhaps by people who never knew the building had once belonged to war. What is left is a room without a roof, waiting for the story that built it to return.

Abutting the N wall of the stairs-tower of a tower house (KD019-003----) and running N, the grassed-over wall-lines (Wth 0.6m) of the NW angle of a levelled building are visible (dims. L c. 8m N-S; Wth c. 6m E-W). It may possibly be the remains of a 17th century fortified house into which the older tower house was incorporated. In the tower house, at first-floor level, the inner wall face has been refaced with red-brick in several places suggesting a long period of use. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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