Carbury Castle
| Carbury Castle | ||
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 South west facade of Carbury Castle |
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| Alternative name (s): | Fairy Hill | |
| Creation time : | before 1220 | |
| Castle type : | Fixed house | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Irish nobility | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone | |
| Place: | Carbury | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 21 '28.3 " N , 6 ° 58' 13.3" W | |
| Height: | 134 m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference | |
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Carbury Castle ( Irish Caisleán Chairbre ) is a ruined castle in the townland of Carbury (Irish Cairbre ) on the border of the Irish counties Kildare and Offaly . The ruins of this solid house from the Tudor period on the Carbury Hill , which also Fairy Hill is called, dominates the area. The moth on the hill presumably had Meiler FitzHenry built , who was given the Strongbow area . The De Berminghams bought the property in the 14th century and the local Irish conquered it in the 15th century. In 1588 it was lent to the Colley family , ancestors of the Dukes of Wellington . They had the large, permanent house built there in the 17th century.
history
The first castle was built by the Normans and the first moth on the hill probably had Meiler FitzHenry built, who got the property from Strongbow. In the 14th century the De Berminghams bought the property. From them it passed to the Preston family , the barons of Gormanstown , and in the 15th century it was conquered by the local Irish. John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury , later also Earl of Wexford , Earl of Waterford and Baron Dungarvan , had the castle rebuilt after 1447.
The eye-catcher on the hill is the ruins of the Colleys country house , which was also called Fairy Hill . On October 23, 1554 Sir Henry Colley († 1584), an ancestor in the paternal line of the Dukes of Wellington, leased the property for 21 years. The lease was extended and the Colleys had a large, solid house built on top of the hill in the 17th century. Today it is a ruin.
Individual evidence
- ^ Moore: Archdall and Lodge in The Peerage of Ireland . Dublin 1789. pp. 120-122.
- ^ County Kildare towns - Carbury . In: Go Ireland.com . Archived from the original on November 17, 2007. Retrieved April 24, 2019.
- ↑ Fiant no.53, Philip & Mary , quoted in Appendix IV, 9th Report of the Deputy Keeper of Public Records in Ireland .
- ^ Carbury Castle, County Kildare . In: Look Around Ireland . Archived from the original on August 30, 2007. Retrieved April 24, 2019.
