County: Kilkenny Site name: Brandondale House, Graiguenamanagh
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 19E0741
Author: Colm Flynn
Site type: Monitoring
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 670454m, N 643355m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.536981, -6.961469
Archaeological monitoring of construction stage site development works were carried out at Brandondale House, Brandondale, Graiguenamanagh, County Kilkenny. Brandondale House is an eighteenth-century country house. The building is situated just to the west of the river Barrow, and 0.5km to the south of Graiguenamanagh town. The Barrow acts as the county boundary here, with County Carlow on the east bank of the river.
The development site was a large, dilapidated country house on extensive grounds, including formal gardens and ancillary buildings. The refurbishment works focused on certain parts of the existing building and its environs. The construction works included the demolition of a lean-to structure at the north of the house and the demolition and replacement of existing stone steps linking the house to the existing courtyard. A new glazed veranda was constructed at the south of the main building and a new entrance to the rear at the upper ground floor level with external storage at lower ground floor level within the existing courtyard. Some of the existing stone walls were refurbished, and some new stone walls were constructed in the garden at the east of the building.
Some of the landscape features in the grounds of Brandondale House retain architectural fragments removed from Duiske Abbey, Graiguenamanagh, during the 19th century. These features were not impacted by the project.
No archaeological features and no artefacts were identified during the works.
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