Kiltinan Castle

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Kiltinan Castle ( Irish Caisleán Chill Teimhneáin ) is a country house 5 km southeast of Fethard in Ireland's County Tipperary .

description

The house stands on a limestone ridge overlooking the Clashawley River .

The house itself is architecturally interesting, but there is also a crenellated main entrance gate and pigeon house from the 15th century, as well as a sheela-na-gig stone and pet cemetery from the early 20th century.

history

Kiltinan Castle is one of the oldest still inhabited buildings in Ireland. It was built in the 13th century.

The country house has seen many interesting residents in its history.

The first known residents were the members of the Butler family , the branch that bore the title of Barons Dunboyne . The house belonged to them until the 17th century. On February 13, 1650, Kiltinan Castle was attacked by Cromwell's forces in the course of the retaking of Ireland .

After the bombing, Kiltinan Castle was significantly rebuilt by the Cooke family in the 18th and 19th centuries.

A breeding program for racehorses was first established in Kiltanan Castle in 1918 when Captain FBJ de Sales la Terriere , MFH bought it. Even if the captain was an officer in the British Army , the house was a safe place for the IRA during the Irish War of Independence and Kiltanan Castle was sometimes hosted by British officers and fleeing rebels. The captain's wife, Joan de Sales la Terriere, was a well-known horsewoman and a member of the “top ten thousand”.

The horse breeding next to the country house is now run by the family of Andrew Lloyd Webber .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Site Fact Sheet. Kiltinan Castle . In: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage . Retrieved May 17, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b Kiltinan Castle . Fethard. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
  3. ↑ Main Record - Tipperary South (Kiltinan Entrance Gateway) . In: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage . Retrieved May 17, 2019.
  4. ↑ Main Record - Tipperary South (Kiltinan Dovecote) . In: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage . Retrieved May 17, 2019.
  5. ↑ Kiltinan Castle . In: Ireland's Sheela-na-Gigs . Retrieved May 17, 2019.
  6. ↑ Fethard & Killusty Newsletter 2000 . Fethard. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
  7. ↑ a b c Main Record - Tipperary South (Kiltinan Castle) . In: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage . Retrieved May 17, 2019.
  8. ↑ 1650: The Siege of Kilkenny . In: British Civil Wars . February 23, 2008. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
  9. ↑ 1649-52: Cromwell's Conquest of Ireland . In: Tralee Times . Archived from the original on July 17, 2011. Retrieved May 17, 2019., Tralee Times
  10. ↑ Life Piles of the Rich & Famous . In: The Irish Independent . May 26, 2001. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
  11. ↑ Kiltinan Farms . Breeder Cup. Archived from the original on December 14, 2010. Retrieved May 20, 2019.

swell

  • Lord Dunboyne: Kiltinan Castle, Co. Tipperary - A Butler Stronghold 1452-1650 in The Journals of the Butler Society . Issue 1 (1). 1968. p. 52.

Coordinates: 52 ° 25 '49.8 "  N , 7 ° 39' 0.7"  W.