Baile an Chaisleáin / Castletown

Baile an Chaisleáin / Castletown (House) is is a country house built in 1722 for William Conolly, the Speaker of the Irish House of Commons, located in Celbridge in County Kildare

Vocabulary:
baile = town; home
caisleán = castle
baile an chaisleáin = a town of the castle

Grammar:
The definite article “an” lenites in singular genitive masculine nouns starting with consonants b, c, f, g, m and p.

caisleán = a castle
an castle = the castle
caisleáin = of a castle
an chaisleáin = of the castle

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