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In 1996, the castle was offered for sale. Despite some protests against giving it to private ownership, [ 13 ] in 1997 the land and the castle were purchased for IR£ 150,000 by English actor, Jeremy Irons , who had already lived in a farmhouse in the vicinity with his wife Sinéad Cusack .
The area surrounding the castle is also an archaeologically sensitive area. 2011 - Following the collapse of the Irish economy in 2008, the Castle portfolio was taken over by NAMA. 2012 - NAMA appointed Lisney as receivers to the Castle Property Portfolio. The Castle Portfolio was offered for sale after the appointment of Sherry Fitzgerald ...
The property is named after the townland of Dowth (Irish: Dubhadh - darkness) where the house and estate are located.[2] [3]The Netterville family had lived in the area of Dowth for hundreds of years before the construction of the current house with the Dowth estate supposedly originally being granted to them by Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath. [4]
A castle was built on the perimeter of a monastic site in 1228 by the Anglo-Norman House of Burke. [1]After more than three-and-a-half centuries under the de Burgos, whose surname became Burke or Bourke, Ashford passed into the hands of a new master, following a fierce battle between the forces of the de Burgos and those of the English official Sir Richard Bingham, Lord President of Connaught ...
Castle Salem is a fortified house near Rosscarbery, in County Cork, Ireland. The house was home to the Morris family from around 1660 until the early 1800s, and was bought in 1895 by the Daly family, descendants of whom now run it as a guest house.
Castlehyde (Irish: Carraig an Éidigh) [1] is a townland and estate, slightly west of Fermoy in County Cork, Ireland. The estate's manor house, Castlehyde House, had been the ancestral home of Douglas Hyde's family [2] and is one of several houses owned by Irish dancer, Michael Flatley. [3]
This is a list of historic houses in the Republic of Ireland which serves as a link page for any stately home or historic house in Ireland. County Carlow [ edit ]
The house and 513 acres of land was offered for sale in 2017 [3] and sold in 2018. [4] In 2019, Lord Magan was evicted from Castletown Cox for failure to make rental payments of €100,000 per annum to the trust he had placed the estate into.