An 18th-century Georgian estate, sixty-eight acres, and a family whose instinct for looking after people runs through everything here.
Most beautiful estates are bought as investments. Rockfield was bought as a place of healing. In 2022 the Murtagh family — farmers in this corner of Meath for longer than anyone can properly record — took on a Georgian house and sixty-eight acres, led by Della: a daughter of the family, and an occupational therapist. Everything you feel when you stay here begins with that one fact.
Rockfield was built by Thomas Rothwell at the close of the 18th century — a Georgian house of restrained, confident proportions. His son Richard improved it in the 1840s; over two centuries it passed through the Pigeon, Cameron and Fitzherbert families, the last of whom brought it back from decline in the early 2000s.
In 2022 it began a new chapter. What’s old is honoured — the proportions, the light, the grand reception rooms. What’s modern is hidden — the heating, the comfort, the quiet good systems. It is a house that has always been used, and still is.
“I’ve spent my career helping people feel at ease in their own lives. Rockfield is the same instinct, in a different form.”
There’s a reason the family chose this house, with all this land. Alongside welcoming guests, Rockfield is home to Nurturing in Nature — Della’s therapeutic programme for foster and adoptive families. Rockfield is, first and last, a house for looking after people.
Ring Rockfield and Della or the team picks up. No call centre, no booking reference — a household that knows the house.
The person who runs the house does this for a living, in every sense. The room is ready; the question is answered before you ask it.
A family with a thousand years in Meath, opening a home — not a property company opening a stay.
We’re a private estate, so we ask guests to book — even for a look around. Send us a note and Della will set up a time.
