Burrenwood
Burrenwood is a country house and estate near Castlewellan , County Down , Northern Ireland . The building is listed in Category B + (Grade B +) of the Statutory List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest and is a listed building.
history
The wooded and agricultural property in Burrenwood was Theodosia Hawkins-Magill (born September 5, 1743, † March 2, 1817), daughter of Robert Hawkins-Magill and later Countess of Clanwilliam , awarded as an agricultural domain . The country house is a semi-circular villa and was built near Castlewellan in the late 18th century .
Burrenwood is comparable to the Swiss cottage in Cahir ( County Tipperary , Republic of Ireland ), the Derrymore House in Bessbrook near Newry ( County Armagh , Northern Ireland ) and the Petit hameau de la Reine in Versailles . All of these buildings were inspired by the French Jesuit priest and architecture theorist Marc-Antoine Laugier .
The property is located between the forest park of the Earl of Clanbrassil , the Tollymore Forest Park of the Earl of Roden , and the possession of the Earl Annesley of Castlewellan in the County of Down , near the Morne Mountains , the writer CS Lewis served as inspiration for his " Chronicles of Narnia ".
Individual evidence
- Ulster Architectural Heritage Society: Historic buildings, groups of buildings, areas of architectural importance: In the Morne area of South Down , PJ Rankin, May 1975 (page 41).
- Mark Bence-Jones , A Guide to Irish Country Houses , Constable, 1988 (English).
- Grace Dorothea Meade (1902–1977), (wife of Major John William Meade (1894–1984)), transcript of the first part of the BBC program: Houses of Ulster , Sunday, November 21, 1937 (English).
- Valerie Pakenham, The Big House in Ireland , Cassell & Co., 2000. (with pictures of aristocratic country houses, but not directly relevant; English).
Web links
- Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI): Clanwilliam / Mead Papers (Clanwilliam / Mead Familienchronik; PDF; 170 kB), English (accessed on December 21, 2010)
- Ulster Architectural Heritage Society , (from a publication from 1975), English (accessed on December 21, 2010)
Coordinates: 54 ° 14 ′ 45.3 " N , 5 ° 56 ′ 36.1" W.