The official residence of the Lord Lieutenant was the Viceregal Apartments in Dublin Castle, where the Viceregal Court was based. Other summer or alternative residences used by Lord Lieutenant or Lords Deputy included Abbeville in Kinsealy, Chapelizod House, in which the Lord Lieutenant lived while Dublin Castle was being rebuilt following a fire but which he left due to the building being supposedly haunted, Leixlip Castle and St. Wolstan's in Celbridge. The Geraldine Lords Deputy, the 8th Earl of Kildare and the 9th Earl of Kildare, being native Irish, both lived in, among other locations, their castle in Maynooth, County Kildare. Lord Essex owned Durhamstown Castle near Navan in County Meath, a short distance from the residence of the Lord Bishop of Meath at Ardbraccan House.
The official residence of the Lord Lieutenant was the Viceregal Apartments in Dublin Castle where the Viceregal Court was based Other summer or alternative residences used by Lord Lieutenant or Lords Deputy included Abbeville in Kinsealy Chapelizod House in which the Lord Lieutenant lived while Dublin Castle was being rebuilt following a fire but which he left due to the building being supposedly haunted Leixlip Castle and St Wolstan's in Celbridge The Geraldine Lords Deputy the 8th Earl of Kildare and the 9th Earl of Kildare being native Irish both lived in among other locations their castle in Maynooth County Kildare Lord Essex owned Durhamstown Castle near Navan in County Meath a short distance from the residence of the Lord Bishop of Meath at Ardbraccan House