Ardbraccan House is a large Palladian country house in the town of Ardbraccan, County Meath, Ireland. The historic house served from the 1770s to 1885 as the residence of the Church of Ireland Lord Bishop of Meath.
Original Georgian entrance gates to the Ardbraccan Estate
Ardbraccan is an ancient place of worship in County Meath, Ireland. It is the location of the former residence of the Roman Catholic, then, after the Reformation, the Church of Ireland Bishop of Meath. it was also a place of prominence in pre-Christian Pagan history. It is approximately 52 km from Dublin via the M3 Motorway, and 4 km from Navan. Ardbraccan is in a civil parish of the same name.
St. Ultan's Church of Ireland The 18th-century building was deconsecrated in 1981 by the Church of Ireland, ending over 1400 years of religious worship on the site. To the right of the picture is the thousand-year-old church tower.
The thousand-year-old church tower The tower predates the current church on the site by over 700 years. It was scheduled for demolition when the new church was built in the 1700s, but the plans fell through and the medieval tower avoided demolition.
The Irish parliament building is built from Ardbraccan stone.
