There is a large garden wall furnished by the Ruxton familv with fruit trees, a vinery and tomato houses, and beautified with extensive flower beds laid out by the late owner, Mrs. MacMillan, which in addition to keeping the hospital in vegetables, affords a profitable stock for sale of vegetables, fruit, a consider­able quantity of grapes and tomatoes, and cut flowers and roots. A rock garden constructed by the late Mr. William Ruxton is still an ornamental feature.

In the plantation between the house and the town is a very perfect earthen fortification erected to protect the Norman townsmen from attack, by the " Irische enemie," or perhaps, as has been suggested, an outwork of the entrenchments of the Irish army of King James II, that occupied the town in the autumn before the Boyne.

There is also a considerable part of the town ditch still ten or more feet deep that encircled the town wall on the outside.Near the southern entrance gate is the ruined castle of the old Norman lords of the property, the latest being Fleming of the family of the Barons of Slane, whose confiscated lands Captain John Ruxton received in the Cromwellian plantation.

In the castle yard are substantial modern farm offices built by the late Mr. Ruxton, where the dairy stock of the hospital are wintered, and two comfort­able dwelling-houses available for attendants and convalescents.

A chapel is attached to St Joseph's hospital. It was built in 1929. The chapel has no longer a regular Sunday Mass but it is still used for liturgies associated with the hospital.