Russellstown Park, Carlow, Co Carlow – A ruin
Bence-Jones, Mark. A Guide to Irish Country Houses (originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978); Revised edition 1988, Constable and Company Ltd, London.
p. 251. “(Duckett, sub Eustace-Duckett/IFR) A two storey Classical house of 1824 by Thomas Alfred Cobden… Demolished.”
Listed in Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland by The Knight of Glin, David J. Griffin and Nicholas K. Robinson, published by The Irish Architectural Archive and The Irish Georgian Society, 1988.
p. 35. A two storey classical house built in 1824 to the design of Thomas Cobden for the Duckett family. Demolished, but a good gate lodge survives.
Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, c. 1835, with granite ashlar façade and tetrastyle Tuscan portico.
Record of Protected Structures:
Russellstown Park Gate Lodge,
Rainstown . townland: Russellstown
Detached three-bay, single-storey gate lodge, c. 1835, with granite ashlar façade and a tetrastyle Tuscan portico.
Gateway, c. 1835, comprising group of granite piers with curved walls having cast-iron gates and railings.
Irish Historic Houses 