Riverstown House

An award winning project

It’s always good to see derelict buildings brought back to life, especially when their restoration is handled with exceptional care and intelligence as shown in Riverstown House, near Monasterevin, Co Kildare. It has been named as overall winner in this year’s Irish Georgian Society’s Conservation Awards, now back after a lapse of three years due to the Covid pandemic.

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Riverstown House, near Monasterevin, Co Kildare was named as overall winner in this year’s Irish Georgian Society’s Conservation Awards, now back after a lapse of three years due to the Covid pandemic.

A derelict building brought back to life to become an award winning home.

Located on the river Barrow’s eastern bank, Riverstown is an intriguing house, probably the service block of a much grander mansion dating from the 1740s that was abandoned after being attacked during the 1798 rebellion and demolished not long afterwards. The surviving outbuilding was then adapted and embellished to serve as a replacement house for the one that was lost.