S4280 : Watercastle House, Durrow, Laois (1)

taken 7 years ago, 4 km NNE of Durrow, Co Laois, Ireland

Watercastle House, Durrow, Laois (1)
Watercastle House, Durrow, Laois (1)
Watercastle House is one of many former castles converted in the C18 into more comfortable residential accommodation, such that hardly a vestige of the former castle remains within its walls. The earliest reference to the castle occurs in the early 1600s, when either Barnaby or Brian Fitzpatrick were recorded as living there. A later reference mentions that at the beginning of the early-eighteenth century the castle had undergone repairs, had been enlarged, and was converted into a dwelling.

The present remains although ruinous are recognisable still as an eighteenth century house, its walls rendered over, and which on closer examination (not apparent in the photographs), reveal the existence of some traces of the former castle incorporated within its walls.

S4280 : Watercastle House, Durrow, Laois (2)
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Mike Searle   (find more nearby)
Date Taken
Friday, 14 July, 2017   (more nearby)
Submitted
Wednesday, 5 August, 2020
Geographical Context
Historic sites and artefacts  Housing, Dwellings  Construction, Development 
Ruin (from Tags)
House 
Subject Location
Irish: geotagged! S 4251 8050 [10m precision]
WGS84: 52:52.4437N 7:22.1644W
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Irish: geotagged! S 4251 8050
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