The walls of the Castle, burned in 1826, are still standing, and so perfect that the building might easily enough have been restored.

A keen-eyed, wiry old household servant, still here, told us the house was burned in the afternoon of January 6, 1826.

There were three women-servants in the house--"Anna and Mary Meehan, and Mrs.Underwood, the housekeeper"; and they were getting the Castle ready for his Lordship's arrival, so little of an "absentee" was the late Lord Clanricarde, then only one year married to the daughter of George Canning.

The fires were laid on in the upper rooms, and Mrs.Underwood went off upon an errand.

When she came back all was in flames.
The deer-park is full of deer, now become quite wild.