Castleboro House, Georgian country house in County Wexford, Ireland
Castleboro House is a ruined neo-Palladian country house near Clonroche, County Wexford, rebuilt from 1840 to 1858 to designs by the English architect Daniel Robertson after a fire in 1839 destroyed all but the west wing. The house was burnt again in 1923 and now stands roofless in private farmland, with granite gate lodges built about twenty years after the main house.
The house was built in the 1700s and represented the power of Anglo-Irish landowners who controlled rural communities. Like many similar properties, it faced threats during Ireland's revolutionary period in the early 1920s.
The Carew family, Irish Whig landowners, held the estate for generations; Robert Shapland Carew built the first house around 1783. By 1911 only three servants lived there, and the house was closed by 1921. In 1926 the demesne was occupied by William and Anna Livingstone, and the land later became farmland.
The ruins stand on private farmland near Clonroche and are not open to the public, so there is no interior to visit; the house was gutted by fire in 1923. View the remains only from public roads, and ask the landowner before crossing any field or gateway.
The granite gate lodges at the demesne entrances were built about twenty years after the house itself, so they are later than the 1783 main block. The ruins stand on what is now farmland and are in private ownership, with no public access.
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