The cut granite stone & slate buildings were originally laid out in 1848 by the architect Daniel Robertson as a model farmyard, and to this end the Farmyard has served its purpose extremely well.

The following description comes from Page 1, Bailly’s Magazine of Sports & Pastimes, Vol. LXVII, No. 443, January 1897:
"...the magnificent farm buildings at Lisnavagh in stone, on four sides of a square, with water in a huge circular basin in the middle, and which are probably the finest in Leinster. They stand on what the late Mr. William Johnson of Prumplestown, the agent, used to remember as a bog, for he had shot snipe on it when a young man."

The buildings are now being carefully restored and made available as workshops, offices, accommodation and facilities. (See the “Lettings” section of this web site)