Roebuck Castle, Dundrum, Co Dublin 

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. 244. “(Barnewall, Trimlestown, B/PB; Westby/IFR) A castle probably built in 2^nd half of C16 by 5^th Lord Trimlestown; badly damaged during the upheavals of C17 and in ruins for most of C18; rebuilt ca. 1790 by 13^th Lord Trimlestown; sold to a branch of the Crofton family, and re-sold 1856 to the trustees of E.P. Westby, who remodelled the castle 1874; giving it an elaborate three storey High Victorian Gothic porched crowned with a steep battlemented gable, and plate-glass windows with pointed or segmental-pointed heads, some of them set in rectangular surrounds with carving in the spandrels. In the hall, he installed a large and ornate Victorian Gothic chimneypiece of carved stone and marble. The castle remained in the Westby family until 1943, when it was sold to the Little Sisters of the Poor.”