School: Kilkea, Mageney (roll number 9123)
- Location:
- Kilkea Lodge Farm, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Cáit Ní Chába
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0781, Page 291
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- (continued from previous page)that the family lawyer a man named Lewis, illegally obtained a long lease of Belan, and, together with a friend of his named Mercer, brought about the dismantlement of the house and demesne by gradually auctioning off every stick and stone they could move. The cut stone work of the parapet and other parts of the house were sold and used in the erection of the public buildings in Athy; the furniture and chimney pieces were parted with, and the statuary in the grounds suffered a similar fate, the doors and shutters are said to have been used for flooring and stable - lofts at Newtown - House, near Bolton Castle; and for miles around there is hardly a place which does not possess some fragments of Belan's former grandeur. At Bolton Castle, in Dr. Farnan's garden, is a block of composite, bearing the Aldborough Crest. " A dexter arm, enbowed in armour, holding in the hand a scimitar", surrounding it is a belt, bearing the motto: "Segnities inimica glorise", and over all is an Earl's Coronet; the maker's name - Coade, London, 1795, is impressed in the composite.
The great iron gates within view of the hall- door at Carton originally hung at Belan gate - lodge.
