Leap Castle

Castle/fortified house in Offaly, Ireland, dating from 1550–1750

Detached sixteenth-century three-storey tower house with remains of Jacobean house constructed to north. Altered and enlarged by the Darby Family, c.1760, to include flanking Neo-Gothic two-storey castellated blocks and door surround. Roughcast rendered walls to tower house with castellated parapet with bartizans and machicolations. Ruled and lined rendered to flanking bays with sandstone dressing. Variety of window openings including limestone pointed-arched twin lights to the tower house and pointed-arched window openings with sandstone sills to the eighteenth-century flanking bays. Pointed-arched door opening with flanking pointed-arched sidelights to front elevation has a Batty Langley style door surround comprising sandstone clustered collonnettes and hoodmouldings. Tower house and flanking bay to south in use as a private dwelling. Two and three-storey castellated bays to north of tower house are derelict.

Type:
Castle/fortified house

Period:
1550–1750

Where:
Offaly, Ireland

Coordinates:
53.03°N, 7.81°W

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