Towards a Liffey Valley Strategy Doc. 1 - Kildare.ie
Towards a Liffey Valley Strategy Doc. 1 - Kildare.ie
Towards a Liffey Valley Strategy Doc. 1 - Kildare.ie
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Church. Single-nave med<strong>ie</strong>val parish church in Bodenstown twd,<br />
1/2 km east. Churchyard burial place of Theobald Wolfe Tone<br />
(1763-98), father of Irish republicanism.<br />
Church. Probable med<strong>ie</strong>val church in Waterstown/Castlekeeley<br />
twd, 1/4 km west.<br />
Classical House. Millicent, 1/4 km west in Millicent Demesne<br />
twd. A 7-bay Georgian house of 2 storeys over basement, with<br />
pedimented, break-front centre, set in riverside parkland.<br />
Bridge. Millicent Bridge, a six-arch structure, probably eighteenthcentury<br />
in date; superseded a ford located a little downstream.<br />
Classical house. Yeomanstown House 1 km. west in<br />
Yeomanstown twd. Early eighteenth-century 2-storey-with-attic, 5bay<br />
pedimented house of exceptional quality.<br />
Classical House. Blackhall, 1/2 km east in Blackhall twd. A 7-bay<br />
Georgian house of 2-storeys, the 3 centre bays being recessed; flat<br />
roof, surmounted by remarkable cupola. The seat of Theobald<br />
Wolfe, after whom Theobald Wolfe Tone was named, his family<br />
having been tenants on the estate. It was also the birthplace of Rev.<br />
Charles Wolfe (1791-1823), whose poem The burial of Sir John Moore<br />
has been widely anthologised. Now a well-maintained stud farm.<br />
Mill. Flour mill 1/4 km north at Carragh, Yeomanstown twd, the<br />
property of Henry Doyle in 1852. A mill was in existence here in<br />
1753.<br />
Aqueduct. Leinster aqueduct, built 1780; Impressive seven-arch<br />
stone structure, designed and built for the Grand Canal Company<br />
by Richard Evans, to carry the Grand Canal and its towpath for<br />
200m across <strong>Liffey</strong> in Waterstown twd.<br />
Bridge. Victoria Bridge in Morristown Lower. 1837<br />
Mill. Flour mill at Tankardstown, the property of Patrick<br />
Haughton in 1852; multi-storey structure now re-utilised as a<br />
guesthouse, entitled 'The Old Mill'; mill race, weir and mill wheel<br />
extant.<br />
Country house. Morristown Lattin 1/4 km south in Morristown<br />
Lower twd. A house originally of 1692, but with façade<br />
remodelled in Tudor-revival style in 1845 by the addition of three<br />
steeply pointed and pinnacled gables, or<strong>ie</strong>ls and a Tudor porch.<br />
The south wing, which was no more than a façade, appears to<br />
have been demolished.<br />
OFFICE OF PUBLIC WORKS ERM IRELAND<br />
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