County: Kildare Site name: BARBERSTOWN: Barberstown Castle
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 03E1745
Author: Finola O’Carroll, for CRDS Ltd.
Site type: Designed landscape - formal garden
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 692679m, N 731141m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.322408, -6.608887
Barberstown Castle is located c. 6km south-west of Celbridge town. Monitoring of groundworks associated with buildings in the area of the walled garden of the castle was undertaken. The western and eastern walls were demolished and the southern wall was partly so. The foundations of these walls were just at ground level. The ground-disturbance works revealed the remains of a stone-walled structure in the south-west corner of the garden. Some medieval pottery was recovered from this location. Cartographic evidence indicates that this building was built after 1837. It is possible that it was a garden shed. The remaining areas of the garden revealed stone-lined drains running north–south, and a culvert which was uncovered previously during the testing phase was further cleared back; it ran in an east–west direction. No other archaeological features were revealed during this monitoring.
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