Rathcoffey, Maynooth, Co Kildare
Mark Bence-Jones. 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. 239. “(Wogan, sub Wogan-Browne/LGI1912; Talbot, Talbot de Malahide, B/PB; Rowan-Hamilton/IFR) Only the gatehouse tower remains of the castle of that most important Irish Jacobite family, the Wogans, which passed by inheritance to the Talbots of Malahide and was sold ca 1785 by Richard Talbot, afterwards 2nd Lord Talbot de Malahide, to Archibald Hamilton Rowan, the future United Irish leader; who pulled down the castle and built what was described as “a less austere residence,” on its site, close to the gatehouse tower. It is of three storeys and has a front consisting of three bays recessed between two bay projections, which are joined at ground floor level by an arcade. As at Ballyhaise House, Co Cavan and King’s Fort, co Meath, the ground floor is vaulted over. Now a ruin.”
supplement: the gatehouse is not the only part of the old castle to have survived; the C18 house is in fact a remodelling of a C13 hall house.”
Not in national inventory
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. 86. “An interesting early to mid 18C three storey house incorporating an earlier building. Sold in the 1780s …Now.a ruin.”
Irish Historic Houses 