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large fireplaces on the external walls. The long gallery at Jigginstown is 90 feet
in length and 15 feet in width and opens directly onto the upper part of the
terraced garden.
The exterior of the building was decorated with elaborate polychromatic
brickwork of two colours. The principal structural walls are made with red
hand made bricks laid in Flemish bond with pointed ruled joints that had
been colour washed, with decorative brick features in a tasteful combination
of smaller buff-coloured bricks that link gracefully to the red brickwork. The
external walls of the building have a continuous ornamental plinth course at
ground floor level and a Platt band at first floor level. The external chimney-
breasts have a slightly different ornamentation with a more complicated plinth
detailing and Platt band. The very large window openings, that once had tim-
ber frames, externally had 'ordered' flat-arch heads with ornamental brick
detailing, including a 'Cupids-Bow' design.
After the execution of the Earl of Strafford and the following years of the
English Civil War, Jigginstown House was neglected and began to structur-
ally deteriorate (Fig. 47). By the time of the Civil Survey of 1654-56, less than
twenty years after it was completed, Jigginstown House was already beginning
Figure 47
Photograph of the
ruins of Jigginstown
House, Naas, Co.
Kildare, Ireland.
(Courtesy of Ana
Dolan)
