Durhamstown Castle is a 500 year old towerhouse in the townland of Durhamstown of the civil parish of Ardbraccan which is in the barony of Lower Navan, in County Meath in Ireland.
The precise origins of the building are unknown.
The building is of four-storeys and the ground floor has four vaulted chambers with inserted windows. A square tower with a pointed door which opens to a spiral staircase, can be found at its east wall. There are three tall chimneys clustering at the north end of the nave.
The original castle is believed to have had another storey which was knocked as a result of a fire. A 19th century single storey wing was added to the north of the old house.
In the 16th century the building was owned by Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, Lord Deputy of Ireland of Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland.
It is one of the oldest continually resided-in buildings in Ireland.
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