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The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007
Large house, known as 'the Turrets', home of Sir William Temple for about a decade in mid-seventeenth century. Earthworks to N and SE of site are probably landscape features. Medieval village lay in vicinity of Steplestown Lodge and Staplestown Bridge. Neither house nor village, which were illustrated by Dineley in 1680 (JRSAI 1862-3, 44-5), are marked on Down Survey of 1650.
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