Carton House and Demesne represents a heritage asset of national importance, for its architecture and its designed landscape, and the contribution made by a succession of distinguished international architects and craftsmen. It is important also culturally, politically and socially as the residence throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries of the Dukes for Leinster and the Fitzgerald family. Smartbuild were appointed in 2018 as conservation architects, forming part of a wide team of professionals seeking to renew its prominence as a luxury hotel resort. A wide range of conservation and enhancement works, amounting to multiple statutory applications, are proposed over a period of two years.