Welcome

Welcome to the Castletown Residents Association website. This website will hopefully provide useful information for all residents, and keep them up to date with what is happening in the estate. 

Castletown Estate truly must be one of the most attractive estates of its age in all of Kildare and further afield and, as such, we hope
to maintain it to the highest possible standard.
  Ongoing issues being tackled by the Association, albeit with a very small committee for an estate with over 700 houses, are as follows:

Clean-ups, litter, graffiti, planning issues - Castletown House/ Gazebo/rights of access, speeding, backlots, etc.

Subscriptions from members are the 'fuel' of the Association which allows us to undertake what we do. We are VERY grateful to all those who pay their subscriptions (€25/OAPs €10). Most of this money goes towards the regular grass cutting in the open space areas, including the Mound. It also allows us to contemplate further initiatives such as:

Planting (e.g. daffodils at the Gates entrance, shrubs, new rose beds at the Orchard Walk), re-generation of areas (e.g. Woodview/Stable gates area Nov. 2008), removal of graffiti, website, newsletter printing and delivery, equipment for clean-ups etc. There are many more items which can be undertaken - finances permitting.

We are a small group and would always welcome any members who would like to join any of the newly set up subcommittees. If there are any issues regarding the estate, in which you are particularly interested, then why not contact us and arrange to come along to one of the committee meetings where we can take it from there. The committee meets once a month, with each subcommittee pursuing its own issues in the intervening time for presentation at monthly meetings.

We have lots of plans for 2011 to build on initiatives from 2010. We hope these plans will succeed with everyone's help.

 Castletown House

Castletown is the largest and most significant Palladian-style country house in Ireland, built c.1722 for the speaker of the Irish House of Commons, William Conolly (1622- 1729). The designs of a number of important architects were used, notably Alessandro Galilei, Sir Edward Lovett Pearce, and later Sir William Chambers. The entire estate was sold by the Conolly-Carew family in 1965 to a property developer, and in 1967 the house and some parkland were purchased by the Hon. Desmond Guinness. Both Mr Guinness and subsequently the Castletown Foundation, who acquired the house in 1979, devoted considerable effort and resources to maintaining the house and restoring the principal rooms to a high standard. Castletown was transferred to state care on 1 January 1994.