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PLANS TO build 101 houses opposite Castletown House, Co Kildare, would destroy the setting of Ireland’s finest Palladian stately home, An Bord Pleanála has heard.

Devondale Ltd was last May granted permission by Kildare County Council for the estate of mainly four- and five-bed detached houses at the Donaghcumper Demesne, a kilometre from Celbridge town.