Myshall Lodge, Co Carlow – burnt down 1922 

Not in Bence-Jones nor national inventory 

http://www.igp-web.com/Carlow/Myshall_House.htm 

Myshall Lodge c.1890 home of Cornwall Brady. 

Myshall was built by Robert Cornwall, a native of Co Tyrone, who acquired land in Carlow during the latter part of the 18th century. The male line of the family died out with the last descendant leaving Myshall in 1915 and the house was burnt down in 1922 during the Civil War. 

Source: hhttp://www.myshalldrumphea.com/myshall-lodge.htm 

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. 

Chapter: Cornwall-Brady of Myshall 

p. 34: Constance Duguid, daughter of a wealthy English wine importer, met Inglis Brady of Myshall while on holidays, and they decided to marry. However, she was thrown from her horse and died before the wedding. Before she died, she expressed a wish to be buried in Myshall cemetery. Her parents John and Adelaide erected a statue of innocence in Sicilian marble over her grave. 

p. 35. When her mother died, fifteen years later in 1903, she requested to be laid beside Constance. It was then that John Duguid decided to build a church in Myshall as a memorial of love to his wife and daughter. The church, enclosing the statue of innocence, was designed in a miniature style of Salisbury Cathedral, and during the ten years of construction, the cost was said to have run to nearly £30,000…. No expense was spared in building this architectural jewel…Adelaide Memorial Church of Christ the Redeemer, consecrated in 1913.” 

p. 38, Inglis Brady then married Mary Louise Watson of Ballydarton on 14 Feb 1888, very soon after Constance Duguid died. The couple had one daughter, Mona, born 1890. Inglis died aged 37 in 1896, and his widow married Hon Ralph Bowyer Norton in 1899. His eldest brother , John Beauchamp Brady, died aged 30 in 1885 and another brother died in infancy. Inglis had two sisters, the youngest, Florence Clare died in 1898 and his eldest sister, Georgiana Elizabeth, who inherited Myshall Lodge, married Edmond Hartstonge-Weld of Rahinbawn, Co Carlow in 1882. They left Myshall in 1815, and the house, unoccupied at the time, was burned by the IRA in 1922. 

Myshall Lodge was built by Robert Cornwall,, who acquired land in Co Carlow during the latter half of the 18^th century, through his association with…. [p. 39/40 ripped out]. 

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. 

Chapter: Doyne of St. Austin’s Abbey. 

p. 89. Only three houses were torched by the IRA , and two of them had more to do with preventing unoccupied houses being used as bases by the Black and Tans, and later by the Free State Army, rather than any vindictiveness against landlords. 

Two of the houses destroyed – St. Austin’s Abbey in Tullow, and Kellistown House – were owned by the Doyne family, while Myshall Lodge was the former seat of the Cornwall-Bradys. The houses in Tullow and Myshall had been unoccupied for several years before the outbrea, of the War of Independence, while Kellistown House was rented by the spinster Pack- Beresford sisters, Annette and Elizabeth. The burning of Kellistown, the only one of the three to be rebuilt, was the result of an attempt by the sisters to alert the RIC about the presence of an IRA unit resting up while on active service. The burned-out shell of St. Austin’s remains, while the ruin of Myshall Lodge was demolished.