House in Castlereban North, County Kildare

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Incorporated into an earlier castle (KD030-008----), the ivy-clad S end (S and W walls) of a 17th-fortified house project W from the SW angle of the earlier structure. The S wall (L 5.8m E-W) survives to three stories (and extends E over the S wall of the castle) with large hood-moulded, mullioned and transommed windows on each floor, while the three-storied W wall (L 5.2m N-S) is reduced to one story at its present N end where a modern N wall is inserted to make a lean-to shed, with a large double-door at the S end of the W wall, which is inaccessible. A later (18th/19th-century?), single-storied, rectangular building (ext. dims. L 14.2m E-W; Wth 6.2m N-S; wall T 1m) abuts the S end of the castle and has a doorway in the S wall and a modern double-doorway in the W wall, above which is a carved stone bearing a jolly-looking, wigged creature. Traces of a fosse c. 40m to WSW noted in 1987 (SMR file) are no longer visible at ground-level.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KD030-008001

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