Scoil: Clochar na Trócaire, Cill na Mullach (uimhir rolla 11855)

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1. Buttevant Castle (ar lean)

   

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   bay and a large mullioned window. The ceiling is of solid masonry, it is lofty, octagonal and conical in form.

   About 1812 in planting part of the castle grounds the labourers discovered a little way below the surface, a human skeleton, with the appearance of a wig on the skull, which mouldered when exposed to the air, and apparently concealed in the caul were several shillings and sixpences of Elizabeth's reign.

   Off a back-staircase is a small doorway 3' x 2'. On opening this door you come on a low short passage, 2 yds. long, which leads you to the mouth of a dark gloomy hole descending almost perpendicularly, just large enough to admit the body of an average-sized man. This aperture is supposed to be the entrance to a subterranean passage communicating with the Franciscan Abbey some 450 yds away. At the Abbey end this passage was closed by Canon C. Buckley P.P. of Buttevant. This passage was used for special and sacred purposes and it is believed that no one who profanely entered it came back alive.

   The name "Castle Barry" was changed to "Buttevant Castle" when Sir James Anderson purchased the Buttevant Estate. The castle assumed its present size and character about 1800 or so when Sir James Anderson enlarged it and made its front consist of two ample and stately towers with a porch between them. Originally the front consisted of one tower. This is still perfect as a sample of 13th century masonry with its walls

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   The Sisters of Mercy

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