Busherstown House (Breens), Busherstown, Co Carlow
Not in Bence-Jones
Detached three-bay two-storey over basement farmhouse with dormer attic, c. 1725. Renovated and extended to right, c. 1830, with door opening remodelled and interior remodelled. Group of detached outbuildings to site. Walled garden to site.
Record of Protected Structures:
Busherstown House, townland: Busherstown.
An early-18th century, three-bay, two-storey house over a basement dating from circa 1725 and remodelled about 1830. It has battered, rough-cast walls, gable ends, a round-headed doorcase with square-headed, granite dressings and lintel. The walls were rough-cast in recent years and the sash windows with two panels in each sash are recent replacements. The roof is high-pitched, with natural slates and end stacks. The house was extended on the right-hand side with a lean-to addition in the early 19th century. On the left-hand side is a wall with a very fine, early-18th century, limestone, carriage arch with beautifully-cut architraves. In front of the house is a walled garden with a small, 18th century summer house and a latrine
Interest: regional, architectural, social, interior.
Jimmy O’Toole, The Carlow Gentry: What will the neighbours say! Published by Jimmy O’Toole, Carlow, Ireland, 1993. Printed by Leinster Leader Ltd, Naas, Kildare.
p. 16. “The Newtons were a Lancashire family who settled in Ireland in 1688. The first three generations lived at Busherstown (Breens) before the Bennekerry seat was established by John Newton, who died in 1748. His eldest son, Bartholomew Newton, married Anne Bernard in 1767, through whom he acquired extensive property in Carlow town. It was their eldest son, Philip, who married Sarah Bagenal. The Bernards were a Laois family and the seat of the Carlow branch was at Strawhall, which was subsequently purchased by the Bruens.
Bennekerry Lodge, the home of the Doyle famil, was built by the Newtowns, whose land ownership in ht emiddle of the last century was just over 4000 acres.
p. 18. The last of the Bagenal family to live at Bennekerry House was Beauchamp Walter Bagenal, who spend his life in the Australian wine trade. It was his brother who lived at Bennekerry House from 1930-36, and then moved to South Africa. When Walter Bagenal died in 1952 without an heir, the representation of the family was vested in Hope Bagenal, the well-known London based acoustic architect who died in 1979. It was his father, Philip Bagenal, who wrote the family history of The Vicissitudes of an Anglo-Irish Family. The Bagenalstown property was left to Captain J.B. Blackett, a great-nephew. The present head of the family is John S. Bagenal whose career was in the Dept of Agriculturein Kenya, and who nowlives near Hertford in England.
Benekerry House, on 120 acres, was purchased in 1936 for £2000 by solicitor Samuel Roche and his wife, and was sold in the 1950s to Dan Morrissey, founder of the concrete products company to which he gave his name. The house is now owned by his son, Andrew Morrissey.”
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Busherstown, County Carlow
Original used as a Farm house
Description: Detached three-bay two-storey over basement farmhouse with dormer attic, c.1725. Renovated and extended to right, c.1830, with door opening and interior remodelled. Group of detached outbuildings and a Walled garden to site.
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