The Butlers Pantry
The Butlers pantry dates from the 1760s and connected the newly created Dining Room with the Kitchens in the West Wing. Food would have been carried in from the Kitchens through the colonnade passageway and then reheated in the Pantry before being served. The great kitchens were on the ground floor of the wing, with servantsÂ’ quarters upstairs. Upwards of 80 servants would have been employed in the house and kitchens in the late eighteenth century under the direction of the Butler and the Housekeeper, although this number declined by the early nineteenth century.
The walls of the pantry are decorated with 19th century photographs of the Castletown servants and illustrated public addresses to the Conolly family from their tenants. There is also a portrait of a Mrs Parnell Moore, reputedly an eighteenth century housekeeper at Castletown.
