The Great House Revival: Inside Sigginstown Castle after couple transform it into dream home

Medieval history fans Liz and Gordon Jones from the US cross the Atlantic and travel back in time after buying an Irish castle 

The transformed interiors at Sigginstown Castle in Co Wexford. Pictures: Dee Organ Photography

Their passion for medieval history meant Liz and Gordon Jones were smitten when they laid eyes on Sigginstown Castle, in a windswept field on County Wexford’s most southeasterly tip.

The property may have been roofless for decades, uninhabited for at least a century, missing a staircase (removed to ensure intrepid livestock didn’t stray upwards to the parapets) — but as Liz says at the outset: “It’s a ruin and a lovely one, we like to think.”