Castle Otway

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The Tower House of Castle Otway

Castle Otway ( Irish Caisleán Otway ) is the ruin of a country house on a hill on the outskirts of Temple Derry in Nenagh in Ireland's County Tipperary . The house was built in the 18th century.

description

The stone house was built two stories high and seven bays wide against the ruins of Cloghane Castle ( Caisleán an Chlocháin ). The middle three yokes were provided with roofs . In the 19th century a tower house was added to the ruins of the donjon of Cloghane Castle at the rear. In 1922, during the Irish Civil War , the house was burned down, presumably by the IRA . Today the house is a ruined ruin; the former gardens and the property are used for agriculture.

history

The castle and the surrounding land were loaned to John Otway in 1685 . His descendants included Admiral Sir Robert Otway, 1st Baronet , General Sir Loftus William Otway, and the writer Cesar Otway .

Henry Otway (1768–1815) inherited the castle. He married Sarah Cave of Stanford Hall in Leicestershire , who later became Baroness Braye herself . After Henry Otway's death, both the baroness and their son, Robert , adopted the surname Otway-Cave and the property fell to Robert. He died young in 1844 with no descendants and his cousin, Vice Admiral Robert Jocelyn Otway , inherited the house. After his death in 1884, the property fell to Galway- born son-in-law William Clifford Bermingham Ruthven , who then took the name Otway-Ruthven .

The Harp of Otway , a charming musical instrument from the 16th century, now the Trinity College in Dublin heard was once housed in this house.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Landed Estates Database - House: Castle Otway . NUI Galway. Retrieved May 21, 2019.
  2. ^ Castle Otway, Tipperary . In: Abandoned Ireland . Retrieved May 21, 2019.
  3. ^ Bernard Burke: Genealogical and Heraldic history of the landed families of Ireland . 1912.
  4. ^ Image Gallery: The Castle Otway Harp . HarpSpectrum. Retrieved May 21, 2019.
  5. ^ Castle Otway Ruins, Co. Tipperary . Travelmania Ireland. Archived from the original on March 14, 2016. Retrieved on May 21, 2019.

Web links

Commons : Castle Otway  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 52 ° 46 ′ 45.3 "  N , 8 ° 4 ′ 53.4"  W.