Bailieborough Castle
Bailieborough Castle ( Irish Caisleán Choill an Chollaigh ) was a country house in Bailieborough in County Cavan, Ireland . It was built on an estate in 1629 . The house was also called Castle House , Lisgar House or simply The Castle and was located southwest of Castle Lough in what is now the Bailieborough estate on the north-west edge of the city. Today nothing of it has survived.
The Castle Lake Loop is a 3 km walking trail around part of the former estate.
history
William Bailie , a Scottish “entrepreneur” or “planter” received the lands of Tonergie ( Tandragee ) in East Breifne from King James I of England in 1610 on the condition that he staked out an estate, had a fortified house built and one on the estate Number of Scottish or English families. He did so in 1629. During the uprising of 1641 the house was attacked and occupied for a month by a squad of Irish soldiers under Colonel Hugh O'Reilly .
William Bailie died around 1648 and the property fell to his son William , later Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh . After the bishop's death in 1664, his only daughter inherited the property; she married James Hamilton . He was inherited by his son Henry , who was a member of Parliament for County Cavan and was killed during the Jacobite Wars at the Siege of Limerick (1690/1691) . His successor was his son, another James Hamiliton , who in 1724 sold the property to Major Charles Stewart , nephew and co-heir of General William Steuart , and left the area.
Charles Stewart died in 1740, leaving the estate to his son William Stewart , High Sheriff of Cavan for 1749 and Member of Parliament for County Cavan from 1766-1768. He was followed by his son Charles , who was also MP for County Cavan from 1783-1793. He was killed in an accident in 1795 and the property fell to his nephew, Thomas Charles Stewart Corry, who sold it to Colonel William Young in 1814 .
Colonel Young set up the town of Bailieborough at its current location and was named 1st Baronet Young of Bailieborough in 1821. He died in 1835 and his son, John Young , then Chief Secretary for Ireland and later Governor General of Canada , inherited him. He was appointed 1st Baron Lisgar in 1870 and had the house renovated as a retirement home. After Lady Lisgar's death in 1895, the property ran into economic difficulties and part of the land was sold to tenants under the Ashbourne Act.
The house itself was sold to Sir Stanley Cochrane , who sold it to one of his nephews, later Mr. WLB Cochrane , a lawyer from Bailieborough. Most of the lands were sold to the Forest Division of the Department of Lands in 1910 . In 1915 the house and the remaining 40 hectares of land went to a religious order, the Marist School Brothers from Athlone . Several brothers are buried in a fence nearby. In 1918 the country house burned down and, although the brothers lived in a rebuilt part until 1936, they decided to sell the house to the Department of Lands and to leave the place. Soon after, Bailieborough Castle was demolished.
Individual evidence
- ^ Bailieborough - Castle Lake loop . irishtrails.ie. Retrieved May 4, 2018.
- ^ Castles of Ireland - County Cavan . rootsweb.ancestry.com. Retrieved May 4, 2018.
- ^ History: The People and the Past . bailieborough.com. Retrieved May 4, 2018.
- ^ Bailieborough ..... A Brief History . irelandxo.com. Archived from the original on February 16, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 16, 2014.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 55 ′ 45.5 " N , 6 ° 59 ′ 26.5" W.