The wonderful Barn is a corkscrew
shaped barn situated on the edge of Castle Town House Estate of the Conolly
Family close to the border of Leixlip and Celbridge in Ireland. The magnificent
Barn actually has a stone staircase that winds around the outside leading to
the top. Moreover; every floor has a hole in the center permitting the grain to
be passed through. The barn was constructed as a part of famine relief project
to grain barn and as an English garden type folly. It was built in the years
immediately following the famine of 1740-41 as there as a need for new grain
stores in case of another famine. It was so catastrophic Irish famine which
killed approximately 38 percent of Irish population. The Barn has a height of
21 meters, the conical shaped is not only a protuberant feature in the rural
landscape but also consider a technical and engineering attainment for the
period in which it was built. The wonderful
Barn actually inspired the building of a similar structure famous as the Bottle
Tower in Churchtown, Dublin close to Rathfarnham. Contrasting the Wonderful
Barn, though the Bottle Tower is in ruins with floors and other timber work
long disappeared and the winding stone steps are not considered harmless to
ascend, making the Superb Barn the only surviving building of this kind in
Ireland. The Wonderful Barn is definitely a worth trip out, and is a well
setting for a stroll.
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