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Lord Cahir joined with the Earl of Tyrone in 1601 and was attainted for treason, but later obtained a full pardon. In 1627, the castle was the scene of a celebrated killing when Cahir's son-in-law, Lord Dunboyne, murdered his distant cousin, James Prendergast, in a dispute over an inheritance: he was tried for the killing but acquitted.
O'Dea Castle – County Clare – a 15th-century castle with high cross and visitor's centre; Oldbridge Estate – site of Battle of the Boyne; Old Mellifont Abbey – Tullyallen, Drogheda, County Louth – Ireland's first Cistercian abbey. Ormonde Castle – Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary – 1560s Elizabethan manor house
Cahir Castle, Tipperary County, Ireland Cahir Castle, view of the walls. This branch sprang from James Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormond (died 1405). The family seat, Cahir Castle, is built on an island in the River Suir. Much of the barony of Iffa and Offa West was controlled by the Butler Barons Cahir.
The siege of Cahir Castle took place in Munster, in southern Ireland in 1599, during the campaign of the Earl of Essex against the rebels in the Nine Years War (1595-1603). ). Although the castle was considered the strongest fortress in the country, Essex took it after only a few days of artillery bombard
It is believed that Conchobar Ua Briain founded what is now known as Cahir Castle in the early 12th century. The fortress was a state-of-the-art defensive stronghold at the time, and continued to be in use for hundreds of years after being gifted to the Butler family in 1375 by Edward III .
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The priory was founded in the late 12th century AD. Galfrid de Camville, Anglo-Norman Baron of Cahir and Fedamore, made a grant to its hospital c. 1200. [8] [9] [10]St Mary’s priory is a multi phased, with evidence of the original 13th century buildings and further alterations and additions in the 15th and 16th/17th centuries.
A castle built by Hugh de Lacy in 1180 to defend the river crossing, [15] [17] rebuilt by John de Clahull in 1181, [16] and once again rebuilt in 1547 by Edward Bellingham after its destruction in the 14th century by the Cavanaghs. The castle was sacked again by Cromwellian forces under Colonel Hewson in 1650 during the Irish Confederate Wars. [18]