The house was destroyed by presumed arson after it was used a billet by the British army during Ireland's War of Independence.

[1] With this money William and Sarah built the six bayed three storey Woodstock House in County Kilkenny in 1745-7.

In 1921, the property was occupied by the Black and Tans and Auxiliaries, which caused resentment, and then by troops of the Free State Army, who were withdrawn from the premises during the Irish Civil War, on 1 July 1922.

The house, left unguarded, was burnt down the next day, and remains a derelict empty shell, overgrown with vegetation.

In 1978 the estate hosted the Irish Jamboree, marking seventy years of Scouting in Ireland.