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House: Buttevant Castle
| Estate(s): | ||
| Property/House name: | Buttevant Castle | |
| Description: | Originally a castle of the Barry family, Earls of Barrymore, sold by them in the early 19th century to John Anderson of Fermoy, who restored it as a castellated house and gave it to his eldest son Sir James Anderson. Sir James lived there until the mid 1840s. William Roche occupied the building valued at £37 in the early 1850s. He held the property from Viscount Doneraile and D.R. Browning held a house, flour mill and offices valued at £120 from Roche. The castle had various occupants in the later 19th century and was last occupied in the early 20th century. It is now a ruin. | |
| Townland: | Castleland | |
| Civil Parish: | Buttevant | |
| Poor Law Union: | Mallow | |
| DED: | Buttevant 237 | |
| Barony: | Orrery and Kilmore | |
| County: | Cork | |
| OS Sheet Number: | 17 | |
| OSI Grid Reference: | R542 086 | |
| Latitude / Longitude: |
52.22736 -8.67035 [ Google Earth ] [ Google Maps ] | |
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Images
Buttevant Castle entrance gates (www.buildingsofireland.ie)
Email: info@landedestates.ie.
Landed Estates Database, 1.2.7b2, 18 May 2011, Phase II beta