Lifting the lid on the chamber pot
One would assume that the chamber pot need no introduction but just in case, a chamber pot is, for want of a better term, a portable toilet. Or pot. Yes, for your business. And in the 18th century, the century we will deal with in this short blog, that was more or...
Through the years – Music at Castletown
“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything” – Plato It has been my privilege these past years, as music co-ordinator at Castletown, to meet some of the most gifted and talented people. I have been...
Breeding Bees! Castletown House Solitary Bee Project 2019
As part of our ongoing support for the All Ireland Pollinator Plan, Castletown began a pilot project in 2019. Its aims were: 1: To educate our visitors about the value, importance and life cycle of our solitary mason bees. 2: To manage our red mason bee...
Kids activity time!
Try Kate's Disney quiz! All the clues are pictures of things in Castletown House relate to a Disney film, see how may you can guess! Answers will be posted tomorrow...good luck! KateDisneyQuiz converted
Homeschooling: History
Here are todays worksheets for the little ones to do while at home and if any little ones want to know anything else about what is on these sheets, parents can ask on their behalf on our Facebook page @castletownhouse Our expert guides are ready and waiting to answer...
February 29th, Leap Year: Proposal accepted… what happens next??!
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance...and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to spend your life with (Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice: Charlotte Lucas’s view on marriage) Be warned… in...
Valentine’s Day!
Castletown’s Colourful Characters: Lady Sarah My dear soul what possessed? ‘My dear soul what possessed you?’ a seemingly exasperated Lady Louisa asked her sister Lady Sarah in a letter dated 26 January 1762. Lady Sarah, sister of Castletown’s Lady Louisa Conolly (née...
February News
Welcome to our first newsletter of 2020! We are delighted to reveal.... Castletown's winter cleaning is nearly finished!! And we are busy preparing the house for the coming 2020 season... The house will be open for tours from the 5th March 2020. Tours on the hour,...
Heritage Ireland latest e-zine
Welcome to the Summer-Autumn 2019 edition of the Heritage Ireland ezine! Summer and the busy season are in full swing at our wonderful heritage sites. Naturally it has been an eventful time for us getting ready for visitor season and of course we have the perennial...
Movie Magic at Castletown
Movie Magic at Castletown This blog will look back at some of the TV shows and movies which used Castletown as a location. In 1983 Castletown’s Courtyard café changed its name for Educating Rita. Remington Steele aired its final episodes in 1987 and Castletown...
Castletown 2019 – A New Season
Castletown 2019 by Deirdre Cullen Castletown House reopens to the public on Friday 1st March. During the winter break our OPW conservation team has been busy cleaning and caring for the house, we’ve been preparing an exciting programme of events, and we'll be open for...
Valentines Competition
This competition has now closed. Thanks to all who entered. A winner will be selected today. Check here later to see if you have won! Win a Romantic Break for 2 This great prize brought to you by the OPW and Irish Landmark includes: 2 Nights self catering...
Books About Castletown
An Active Research Programme It is our mission at Castletown ‘to conserve, protect and hold in trust’ this historic site and its contents, ‘in accordance with their national importance and use’. Working closely with the Castletown Foundation as well as the...
Christmas at Castletown
Glad tidings we bring to you and your kin: Christmas market with live crib and music, Santa in Castletown House, music, storytelling, gift ideas - there is a lot to discover and do at Castletown this December! Winter Opening The restored Crimson Drawing...
The Collection at Castletown: Treasures Lost and Found
Castletown, in the words of Kevin B. Nowlan, former Professor of Modern History, is an Italian palace set on the banks of the River Liffey. At the time it was built, contemporary commentators expected it to be no less than ‘the epitome of the Kingdom, and all the...
Count Dracula, his Female Victims and Castletown House
By Dr. Catherine Bergin, Guide & Information Officer When one thinks of Castletown House, the words ‘Bram Stoker’ and ‘Dracula’, rarely, if ever, spring to mind. Yet thanks to Monaghan scholar Fearghal Duffy a connection between this stately...
October at Castletown
Our musical events this month include the songs of John McCormack and Leonard Cohen, baroque orchestral music as well as classical music for piano and violin - doesn't that sound good! We are also hosting a play in the Hunting Room which has won rave reviews both on...
Lady Louisa
Castletown flourished under Thomas Conolly and Lady Louisa. Lady Louisa, the third of the famous daughters of the Duke of Richmond, had spent much of her childhood at Carton near Maynooth, the home of her sister Emily, Countess of Kildare and later Duchess of...
September at Castletown
This month, we have some wonderful opera lined up for you, as well as some exciting musical events, an astronomy workshop, and much more! You can access all our events at any time on our Calendar; for directions on how to get to Castletown, please click here. If we...
Special Tours in 2018
Take a Closer Look This season, Castletown is delighted to introduce a new programme of occasional ‘Closer Look Tours’, in which our guides will focus in greater depth on aspects of Castletown’s architecture, interiors, and parklands. Each tour will explore...
