Portlick Castle

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Portlick Castle ( Irish Caisleán Phort Lice ) is a country house that has arisen from a late medieval tower house on the banks of Lough Ree near the village of Glasson , about 9.6 km from Athlone in County Westmeath , Ireland .

description

The country house consists of a four-story, late medieval tower with a square floor plan, to which a two-story wing was added in Georgian times and another tower in Victorian times .

history

Sir Henry de Leon came to Ireland as early as 1169 after the original invasion of the Earl of Pembroke to accompany Prince John (later King John Ohneland ) and received large estates in Westmeath. The Dillons family coat of arms has a red lion in the middle, surrounded by three red shields. Your family name later developed from De-lee-on to Di-lee-on to Dillon. The Irish Gaelic version of this name is Díolún . A branch of the Dillons received the land from Portlick and probably had a moth built near the present country house . This was their main fortress and probably their home until the Tower House was built in the late Middle Ages. From then on they lived in the Tower House until Garret Dillon was expropriated under the Treaty of Limerick in 1696 . The castle was then given to Thomas Knightly , a member of King William III's Privy Council . lent, who in turn sold them to William Palmer of Dublin .

The denial was later discarded and the property reverted to the Crown, which sold it to Reverend Robert Smyth in 1703 . A member of the Smyth family lived in the country house until 1955. The Smyths had the Georgian residential wing built and in 1860 Ralph Smyth had a crenellated , three-story tower built in front of the Georgian wing, which gave the building its current appearance with two towers.

According to articles in The Westmeath Independent , Portlick Castle was burned to the ground on Wednesday, July 17, 1861, destroying thousands of pounds of dishes, furniture and books, and which was uninhabitable when it was in 1988 when Australian poet Luke Whitington , a patron of the arts , and experienced restorer of derelict buildings in Italy , bought. He had the buildings in Portlick re-roofed and renovated on a large scale. The county government granted residential clearance in 2000.

From 2012 the entire country house could be rented for 46 weeks a year for € 1000 per night and it was offered for sale together with 10.8 hectares of surrounding land for € 2.29 million. Today Portlick Castle is still owned by Luke Whitington and leased as a private residence.

Ghost stories

According to local legend, Portlick Castle, Kilkenny Castle , Monkstown Castle , Sharon Rectory and Workhouse Museum in Derry are haunted by the spirit of the "Blue Lady".

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Alistair Rowan, Christine Casey: North Leinster: The Counties of Longford, Louth, Meath and Westmeath .
  2. ↑ Tom Kelly: Pages form the Past - 150 Years ago - 1861 - Fire at Portlick Castle . In: The Westmeath Independent . July 20, 2011. Retrieved June 17, 2019.
  3. ↑ Alex McGregor: Portlick Castle to give a big boost to tourism . In: Sydney Morning Herald . 190. January 28, 1989. Retrieved June 17, 2019.
  4. ^ Steen Hanson: Australian buys into 800 years of Irish heritage in The Sunday Business Post , Dublin, May 28, 1995.
  5. ↑ Portlick Castle, Glasson, Athlone, Co. Westmeath . Knight Frank Real Estate Ltd .. Retrieved June 17, 2019.
  6. ↑ Portlick Castle, Glasson, Athlone, Co. Westmeath, Ireland . Knight Frank Real Estate Ltd .. Archived from the original on November 16, 2012. Retrieved on June 17, 2019.
  7. ↑ Eithne Tynan: Proper castle with ghosts and dungeons can be yours for € 1.9m . In: The Independent, Dublin . November 21, 2014. Retrieved June 17, 2019.

Coordinates: 53 ° 28 ′ 59 "  N , 7 ° 54 ′ 11.9"  W.