Kindlestown House Lower

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Part of the buildings remaining of Kindlestown House Lower and outbuildings

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The original house at Kindlestown was of the 18^th Century and was a detached L shaped farm house, with outbuildings and was recorded a in the Lewis’s guide of 1837 of being occupied by Captain Morris. We see that in the Griffith’s Valuation of about 1850 that an Eliza Morris was residing at Kindlestown House. The lands around the old house were sold in 1856 for £2500. The land was leased from the Earl of Meath.  The lands and house was bought by  William Basil Orpin, who appears to have abandoned the older house and built a new house which we see today. Though the later house is now in poor condition itself. Today there is just traces of the old house or its outbuildings in the grounds of the later house.