Leixlip Castle

Viewing platform, c.1800, comprising elevated terrace with rubble stone battlemented parapet wall. Set back from road in grounds shared with Leixlip Castle.

This viewing platform is an attractive rubble stone structure that forms a subtle component of the Leixlip Castle estate. The building is of some social and historical significance, attesting to the expansion of the estate in the late eighteenth/early nineteenth centuries to accommodate use as a gentleman’s residence. The rubble stone construction is a feature shared in common with further buildings in the grounds and is representative of the traditional economic method of building at the time. The viewing platform is one of a group of recreational structures in the grounds that also includes a folly (11804055/KD-11-04-55).