Outstanding in its Field



Kilcoltrim, County Carlow: a substantial, five-bay, three storey over basement house that dates from the mid-18th century, it is listed by Samuel Lewis (1837) as being the residence of Edmund Hegarty but has long fallen into ruin. The most notable feature of the building, a cantilevered stone staircase located at the centre of the building, is documented as still intact when David Griffin compiled his list of vanishing or lost Irish country houses in 1988. This feature has since gone and little beyond a disintegrating shell now remains.


One comment on “Outstanding in its Field

  1. boxwoodbooks says:

    I see a ghostly pack of foxhounds sitting around the huntsman s horse in front of this house at a Lawn Meet of the Carlow Hounds.

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