Bence-Jones, Mark. A Guide to Irish Country Houses (originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978); Revised edition 1988 Constable and Company Ltd, London.
p. 255. “(Reilly/LGI1912) A two storey house with two storey wings extending forwards, to form a three sided entrance court. Bulit ca 1717 by Miles Reilly, originally intended as offices, the idea being to build a house in front of it. Altered towards mid-C19 by J.T. Reilly. The elevations are plain, except for two storey Jacobean style porch with a curvilinear gable in the centre range, flanked by two shallow oriels surmounted by segmental headed dormer-gables; while the wings end in square battlemented towers. The porch is of a golden stone, contrasting attractively with the rest of the house, which is rendered. Some of the rooms have C19 fretted plaster ceilings, and heavily carved Jacobean style chimnyepieces and overmantels of wood.”
Buncrana Castle, County Donegal, photograph by Robert French, (between ca. 1865-1914), Lawrence Photograph Collection, National Library of Ireland
Bence-Jones, Mark. A Guide to Irish Country Houses (originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978); Revised edition 1988 Constable and Company Ltd, London.
p. 49. “(Richardson/LGI1912) A very distinguished early C18 house, built 1716 by George Vaughan, close to the shore of Lough Swilly. Two storeys over basement; seven bay centre block with two storey one bay overlapping wings. Doorway with scroll pediment. Panelled interior. Axial approach by a six-arched bridge over the river, near which stands an old tower-house of the O’Dohertys, Lords of Inishowen; and through a curving forecourt. Originally, the house was surrounded by elaborate gardens and terraces. By ca 1840, Buncrana belonged to a Mrs Todd; it later became a seat of Alexander Airth Richardson, son of Jonathan Richardson, MP, of Lambeg, and his wife, Margaret Airth. It is now falling into decay.”
Palace Anne, County Cork, Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland by The Knight of Glin, David J. Griffin and Nicholas K. Robinson, published by The Irish Architectural Archive and The Irish Georgian Society, 1988.
Bence-Jones, Mark. A Guide to Irish Country Houses (originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978); Revised edition 1988 Constable and Company Ltd, London.
p. 230. “(Beamish-Bernard, sub Beamish/IFR) A very distinguished early C18 house of red brick with stone dressings, built 1714 by Arthur Bernard, whose brother, Francis, judge of common pleas, was the ancestor of the Earls of Bandon; named in honour of Arthur Bernard’s wife, Ann Power or Le Poer. …Arthur Bernard, the builder of the house, though very much a member of the ruling Protestant establishment at Bandon, was tolerant, not to say humanitarian – enough to construct a hiding-hole behind the dining room panelling in which Catholic priests who were in trouble with the authorities could be concealed….Arthur Beamish-Bernard’s nephew and heir, another Arthur, who went to America, sold the last remnants of the estate 1875, by which time the house had fallen into ruin. The walls of the centre block were still standing 1956, but were demolished soon afterwards; now only the right hand wing remains, which though dilapidated still has its roof and some of its windows.”
Listed in Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland by The Knight of Glin, David J. Griffin and Nicholas K. Robinson, published by The Irish Architectural Archive and The Irish Georgian Society, 1988.
p. 52. “…Centre block of three storeys over high basement with three curvilinear gables linked by one bay wings to two bay pavilions also with curvilinear gables. The pedimented doorcase of the central block was mid-18C. The house was faced with red brick, with cut stone dressings. Good interior with panelled rooms. Main block after standing as a ruin for many years was demolished in the late 1950s, only the left hand pavilion remains.“
The Buildings of Ireland. Cork City and County. Frank Keohane. Yale University Press: New Haven and London. 2020.
p. 21. After the Williamite wars, landowners had the confidence to invest in their property and improve their estates, building new houses and offices, and creating enclosed landscaped demesnes. Of the minor gentry, most aspired to nothing more than a house that was solidly built, symmetrical and convenient. At first, middling houses were unsophisticated in their form and planning, often only one room deep but sometimes having a return containing a staircase or service rooms, thus forming an L-plan or T-plan. Steep gable-ended roofs were almost universal, hipped roofs and the use of parapets the exception. This arrangement continued throughout the 18th century for gentry houses, and well into the C19 for larger farmhouses. Early examples include Ballinterry (Rathcormac), Velvetstown (Buttevant), Rosehill at Ballynacorra (Midleton) and Aghadoe at Killeagh.
Sometimes a double-pile plan was achieved by building a second, parallel range of rooms. In most early cases, each range had its own roof, so a pair of gables would be visible at the sides; covering both ranges [p. 22] with a single hipped roof would have stretched the abilities of most artisan builders before the later C18.
Most houses of this class are built of rubble stone, which was then roughcast; ashlar, or even squared and coursed masonry is almost never encountered other than at the largest houses, such as Doneraile Court and Newmarket Court. Similarly brick was rarely used, early exceptions beign the demolished Castle Bernard and its sister house, Palace Anne (Enniskean).
Mark Bence-Jones. A Guide to Irish Country Houses (originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978); Revised edition 1988 Constable and Company Ltd, London.
p. 1. “(Phibbs/LGI1912) A 2 storey house built between 2 fortified towers 1716 by William Phibbs. Sold 1810 to Richard Fleming, who modernised it and altered the house 1816. Sold by the Flemings ca 1990; eventually fell into ruins.”
Listed in Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland by The Knight of Glin, David J. Griffin and Nicholas K. Robinson, published by The Irish Architectural Archive and The Irish Georgian Society, 1988.
Abbeyville was originally a Phibbs property. McTernan states that it was leased to William Fleming after the death of William Phibbs in 1785.The original house was built in 1716 but extensively modernised afterwards. In 1814 it was the residence of William Fleming. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation it was being leased by James Fleming from William Phibbs and was valued at £6. In the later nineteenth century it passed out of the Fleming family. It was demolished in the later twentieth century. Leet indicates that Archibald Fleming resided at Larkfield, also close to Ballymote.
Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse with dormer attic, c. 1710, on a T-shaped plan with gable ends. Renovated with rusticated stone doorcase added. Renovated, c. 1985. Group of detached stone built outbuildings to rear.
Record of Protected Structures:
Mill Park, Aghade, Tullow
Townland: Carrickslaney
A three-bay, two-storey, gable-ended house said to date from 1650. It has a T plan with the return added at a later date. It has remarkably thick walls which suggests a seventeenth century date. The walls are rough cast and there is a square-headed, granite, blocked-architrave doorcase dating from the eighteenth century flanked by wide sidelights. The roof is slightly high pitched and there are substantial, granite stacks. The 19th century glazing has been replaced with modern windows during recent renovations.
Importance: regional, architectural, interior, social
The first Echlin home in Carlow was at Millpark, Kilbride, built in the 17th century for one of the four daughters of the Rev. Henry Echlin, Bishop of Down and Connor, from 1613, who came to Ireland from Scotland during the reign of King James I. It was his great-grandson, Henry Echlin, second Baron of the Court of Exchequer, who was created a Baronet in October 1712. His eldest son [Robert], who was an M.P., first for Downpatrick, and later for Newry, married Penelope Eustace, daughter of Sir Maurice Eustace of Harristown, County Kildare.
Millpark House was either leased or bought by the Tomlinsons around 1670, and remained in the ownership of this family until the death, in 1958, of Harriet Tomlinson. The estate, which comprised 452 acres in 1839, was sold to the Land Commission by William Tomlinson, and after the division of the land, the house was purchased by Sheila Eustace Harvey, a member of the Eustace family of Newstown. It is now the home of her son. Robin Harvey, and his wife Carole Joan.
The present drawing-room at Millpark. originally the kitchen, still retains some of its original features, including the wooden rafters, now well darkened by turf smoke The arch of the old fireplace is of local cut granite, and inside is a rounded fire-bricked oven for bread making. The large chimney had a crane fitted halfway up. enabling sides of bacon to be pulled into the flue and cured to perfection. Hooks are still in place on the rafters of the room where meat and other food items were hung. The drawing room ceiling is very unusual for a farmhouse. In 1720, Italian students who had been befriended by the Tomlinsons, returned the hospitality by completing elaborate Rococo plasterwork in the form of a hub and circle of wheat cars and stalks. The cornice was completed in the “small egg and dart” style.
Co Carlow/€1.2m: Why would you brave airports in your hunt for la vraie campagne when just down the road from Dublin is this 17th century farmhouse on 4.5 acres for €1.2m, asks Michael Parsons
Driving south through Co Carlow is not unlike cruising down an autoroute from Paris and being unaware of la France profonde on either side.
Okay, admittedly Serge does not shunt his camion at 120 km an hour, causing freshly quarried gravel to fall like brimstone and shatter Nicole and Papa’s windscreen.
The perils of the N9, therefore, allow only the occasional glimpse of a foaming weir on the lordly Barrow or the purple grandeur of the Blackstairs.
And so, the little county – Leinster’s pearl-drop earring – is quickly traversed. That’s a pity, because within minutes of the main roads lies some of Ireland’s loveliest and most unspoilt scenery with possibly the best-value property in the country.
Mill Park, Kilbride, Carlow, a 17th century farmhouse on 4.5 acres, with frontage onto the River Slaney (the county’s other major river), is to be auctioned by Dawson Real Estate Alliance at Tullow on June 22nd and carries an advised minimum value of €1.2 million.
Folks, it’s a steal.
The 232sq m (2,500sq ft) house has two reception rooms and a traditional kitchen. A diningroom, formerly the kitchen, retains turf-stained pine beams, an original bread oven and a nook where the goose once cared for its goslings.
There are three bedrooms on the first floor (two doubles and a single) and a bathroom which weekending Dortsiders might find a tad ancien régime.
On the second floor, two further bedrooms are suitable only for the vertically challenged due to won’t-forget-that-in-a-hurry low door lintels.
Outside, the farm has long gone but 4.5 magical acres remain. There’s a quarter-acre sheltered sloping lawn leading to a walled fruit and vegetable garden yielding organic treats from asparagus to Turkish brown figs.
A proper, old-fashioned chicken run (yes, children, the film was based on a true story) and a glasshouse of Black Hamburg grapevines. And a “rambling rector” rose – named, one hopes, to honour the reverend’s sermons, and not his wandering eye.
A separate garden area features a large spring-fed pond – potentially a perfect natural swimming pool (en vogue) beneath a grove of Rhodesian Oak.
There is a profusion of granite outbuildings at least two of which – a 70-ft long re-roofed store and a former milking parlour – could be converted into quaint cottage residences without damaging the character of the main house.
There is a tennis court and then a large paddock leading to a secluded stretch of pristine riverbank where a canopy of beech and ash provide shade “o’er the pleasant Slaney”.
Amid a carpet of bluebells, close to a little waterfall, a natural picnic spot created by a granite outcrop known as the Tea Rock overlooks a languid scene to rival a river valley in Dordogne.
Still determined to endure the unspeakable indignity of Dublin airport this summer and budget-airline misery to an out-of-the-way airstrip and your secret little gateway?
To what? La “vraie” campagne? Une fermette idéale? It’s on the doorstep. Just 54 miles from the city centre.
Burton Hall, County Carlow, entrance front before removal of top floor. Victorian Photographs. Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland by The Knight of Glin, David J. Griffin and Nicholas K. Robinson, published by The Irish Architectural Archive and The Irish Georgian Society, 1988.
Mark Bence-Jones. A Guide to Irish Country Houses.[originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978; Revised edition 1988 Constable and Company Ltd, London.]
p. 50. “(Mainwaring-Burton/IFR) An important early C18 house, begun 1712. Of three storeys, nine bays…. Sold 1927 by W.F. Burton, demolished 1930.”
Burton Hall, County Carlow, garden front before removal of top floor. Victorian Photographs. Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland by The Knight of Glin, David J. Griffin and Nicholas K. Robinson, published by The Irish Architectural Archive and The Irish Georgian Society, 1988.
Listed in Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland by The Knight of Glin, David J. Griffin and Nicholas K. Robinson, published by The Irish Architectural Archive and The Irish Georgian Society, 1988:
“An important early eighteenth-century house begun in 1712. The house was originally three storeys, but the top floor was removed in the late nineteenth century before 1896. The house was sold by the Burton family in 1927 and the main block was demolished in 1930. A small wing remains.“
Record of Protected Structure:
Burton Hall House, Palatine. Townland: Burton Hall Demesne.
The present house is a wing of the original Burton Hall which fell into decay in the late 19th century and was demolished sometime around 1900. The surviving wing is a three-bay, single-storey building over a high basement and dates from circa 1730. It is built of granite ashlar with limestone raised coigns, base-mould, block and start dressings to the tall windows and a heavy cornice. The slated roof is hipped at the North end. The South end was linked to the original house. A further range was added behind the original wing and has simple details
Interest: regional, architectural, 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.
Chapter: Burton of Burton Hall
p. 70. “Brothers Francis and Thomas Burton left England in 1610, and settled at Buncraggy, Co Clare. It was Thomas’s grandson, Benjamin Burton I, who established the family seat in County Carlow.
The earliest reference to the Burton name in Carlow, althoughnot necessarily related to the later arrivals, was in 1392, when King Richard II gave £20 towards the rebuilding of the town after it had been burned by the McMorrough-Kavanaghs and the O’Carrolls. Responsibility for distributing the money was given to William Burton and Thomas Taillour of Cathirlagh.
p. 71. The source of the Burton wealth, apart from their 4,500 acre estate, was banking – a business which, in common with several other Irish banks in the 18th century, eventually collapsed.”
In 1714, Samuel Burton, whose father founded the family bank, and his wife Anne, were invited to the Coronation of King George I in London… Mrs Burton was killed when she was caught under falling scaffolding erected to facilitate seating for guests. Married six years earlier the couple had three sons, Benjamin, Hughes and Samuel, and a daughter, Katherine.
Benjamin Burton I purchased Burton Hall,, originally Ballynakelly, and other land in County Carlow from trustees for the sale of forfeited estates in 1712. [p. 72] These were properties confiscated after the Williamite War and sold by the Crown during the reign of Queen Anne (1703-1713). The house at Burton Hall was completed in 1730, replacing an earlier house dating back to the middle of 16C. His son, Charles Burton, MP for Dublin for 11 years, and Lord Mayor in 1753, was created Baronet in 1758. It was his son Charles who remodelled Pollacton House about 1803, the original “Pollardstown House” having been built earlier. The Burtons were one of the most powerful political and financial dynasties during the first half of 18C. Between 1700 and 1770, eight Burtons held seats in Parliament for Carlow, Clare, Sligo and Dublin. Benjamin Burton I was MP for Dublin 1702-1723; his son Charles, and also his eldest son Samuel, whose wife was killed, was MP for Sligo in 1713 and for Dublin in 1727. His son Robert, wholived in Hacketsown, was MP for Carlow 1727-1760. The following two generations also held seats in Parliament.
It was Benjamin Burton I who founded the family bank in the early 1700s.. He died in 1728, and five years later in 1733, the bank was so heavily in debt that it was forced to stop payment. [p. 73] So serious was the collapse for investors that Parliament passed an act within weeks, vesting all the real and personal assets of the directors in trustees….
The collapse of the bank did not leave the Burtons in poverty. In his autobiography, Pole Cosby of Stradbally Hall referred to the marriage in 1731 of Charles Burton, afterwards created 1st Baronet, to Margaret Meredith (her brother married Cosby’s sister) “She had £1,500 to her fortune, more than he did at that time deserve, as most people thought, bu turned out very well, forhe, a merchant was a clever managing man, and is now very rich.” The Burton Hall family seat and 4,500 acres in County Carlow survived the downfall of the bank.”
The last member of the family to sit in Parliament for County Carlow was [p. 74] William Henry Burton, and whose father, Benjamin II, was a sitting MP for the county when he died in 1767. The seat was held by an in-law, John Hynde, for two years until 1769, when William Henry was returned and he was re-elected for every Parliament of Ireland until the Union, which he firmly opposed.”
p. 74. “While continuing to hold posts of High Sheriff, and Justices of the Peace, their political influence evaporated during the first half of 19C, and by 1864, their residential linkwiht Burton Hall had almost ceased. It wqs let out. The first tenants were the Moore family who leased the house for ten years, it ws then left afterwards to Charles J. Engledown, who left in 1901.
In 1927 William Fitzwilliam Burton died and the 1000 acre estate was purchased by the Irish Land Commission, and it was bought by Harman Herring Cooper, who demolished part of Burton Hall and used the salvaged materials to build a new house within the nearby walled garden. …
p. 75. By the 1920s the house, after being left unoccupied for long periods, was in a poor state of repair…. The baronetcy, created for Charles Burton of Pollacton in 1758, became extinct after five generations with the death, aged 80, in 1902, of Sir Charles William Cuffe Burton. …He left his property to his niece, Grace Ellen Burton, wife of Sir Francis Charles Edward Denys, Bart, who assumed the additional name of Burton, and her sister, Gertrude Mary Burton.
Sir Francis and Grace Ellen had one son, Charles Peter, and four daughters, and their eventually heir was their third daughter, Georgina Denys Burton,who did not marry. She was the last of the family to live at Pollacton House. Some years before her death she built a new house, and left the property to her nephew, Jasper Tubbs, who demolishedthe old house in the early 1970s. The newhouse was purchased by the present owner, John McLoughlin.
The Burton/Conyngham connection came in 1781, when Francis Pierpont Burton, a nephew of Benjamin Burton I, survived his maternal uncle Henry, 1st earl of Conyngham, now represented by Lord Henry Mount Charles of Slane Castle.”
Detached three-bay single-storey over basement granite built building, c. 1725, originally wing of larger house with carved stone dressings. Section of staircase and joinery incorporated into dwelling. Attached single-storey garage to right. Remainder of house demolished, c. 1930.
The Burton family of Burton Hall, county Carlow held land in the barony of Tirerrill, county Sligo. Samuel Burton of Burton Hall was Member of Parliament for the county in 1713. The head of the family in 1835 was William FitzWilliam Burton. In the 1860s property held by the Ramsay estate in the town of Sligo and the barony of Carbury was offered for sale in the Landed Estates Court. The particulars indicate that the original lease was between Cornet Francis Burton, of Burton Hall, and Laurence Vernon.
The Demesne of Burton hall lies across the Carlow-Kildare border, about half in each county for a total of 600 acres. The actual Burton Hall estate house which was completed in 1730 was well inside the county of Carlow south east of Burton hall Demesne and about a quarter of a mile south of the border of County Kildare. (This is based on a survey carried out by Carlow County Council in Dec 2004).
Map of Burton Hall Estate.
HYPERLINK “http://sites.rootsweb.com/~irlcar2/Burton_Hall_map.jpg”Incidentally, Burton Hall (now in ruins) is located about one and a quarter miles east of Duckett’s Grove estate house which is in the Demesne of Rainstown. Burton Hall gave its name to the townland of Burtonhall Demesne which is partly in Killerrig civil parish, partly in Urglin civil parish, (both in Carlow) and partly in Castledermot civil parish in Co Kildare.
Ther was indeed an estate with a fine mansion of three stories high, the history of which is told in the book entitled “The Carlow Gentry” by Jimmy O’Toole. I.S.B.N. 09522544 0 9. There is an engraving of the house and details of the Burton family history in the book. Very little remains of the house today.
A man by the name of Benjamin Burton 1st purchased the property which was originally know as Ballynakelly, and other land in County Carlow in 1712. These were properties confiscated after the Williamite War and sold by the Crown during the reign of Queen Ann (1703-1713).
Note from Carloman:
The entrance gate to the estate stands just outside the village of Palatine, North East of Carlow town within walking distance, there was a lovely straight driveway dipping down into a hollow before rising up to where the front door of the Mansion was . The Burtons also owned Pollacton House nearer to Carlow town. I remember the last of the Burton family to live in Carlow at Pollacton , Miss (Georgina) Denys, she drove herself in car which I think was a Wolseley with the front doors hinged at the rear only one of two in Carlow in the 1950s, a formidable lady by all accounts.
Source: ‘Carloman’ c2006
Burton Hall is mentioned in
“A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, by Samuel Lewis. 1837″
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URGLIN, or RUTLAND, a parish, in the barony and county of CARLOW, and province of LEINSTER, 2 1/4 miles (E. N. E.) from Carlow, on the road from that town to Castledermot; containing 977 inhabitants. This parish comprises 3080 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, and valued at £2715 per annum: the greater part of the land is in small holdings, and the system of agriculture is improving.
The seats are Burton Hall, the residence of W. F. Burton, Esq., pleasantly situated on a rising ground in a finely planted demesne, approached by a long and wide avenue of trees; Rutland House, of — Mosse, Esq.; Rutland Lodge, of E. Burton, Esq.; Johnstown, of T. Elliott, Esq.; Benekerry Lodge, of E. Gorman, Esq.; Mount Sion, of B. Colclough, Esq; and Benekerry House, of Mrs. Newton.
At Palatinetown there is a constabulary station, and a fair is held there on the 26th of March. The living is a rectory, in the diocese of Leighlin, united in 1713 to the rectory of Grangeforth, and by act of council, in 1803, to the impropriate cure of Killerick, and in the patronage of the Bishop: the tithes amount to £250, and of the union to £542. 19. 2 3/4. The church is a neat plain building with a spire, erected in 1821 by aid of a loan of £700 from the late Board of First Fruits. In the R. C. divisions the parish is partly in the union or district of Tullow, and partly in that of Tinriland, and contains a chapel belonging to the latter division, situated at Benekerry. About 50 children are taught in a public school, and 110 in two private schools.
William Fitzwilliam Burton 1796 – 1844
William Fitzwilliam Burton, of Burton Hall, Carlow, Ireland. I think there were several Williams… NB
Burton Hall is 6 miles from Tullow, 4 miles from Carlow and 45 miles from Dublin.
LANDOWNERS IN WICKLOW 1876 Part 2: 4.
William Burton, address Burton Hall, Carlow, owned 32 acres. (in co. Wicklow) Stamford Mercury 1819 – Lincs.
Married on Friday the 17th Feb instant, at Lincoln (by the Rev. Edward Chaplin) Sir Richard Sutton, Bart of Norwood Park, Notts, to Mary Elizabeth eldest daughter of the late Benjamin Burton. esq., and sister of the present William Burton, Esq., of Burton Hall in the County of Carlow, and lately of Walcot Park near Stamford. County Carlow Landowners 1870’s: Sir Charles Burton, address Pollacton, Carlow, owned 381 acres. William F. Burton, address Burton Hill, owned 4,422 acres.
1913: Carlow: William Fitzwilliam Burton loses case over allegations that Charles J. Engledow, (who had leased Burton Hall from the late 1870s until 1901) had removed a valuable Gainsborough portrait of Lady Anna Ponsonby; the painting proved to be a fake.
1922 Carlow: Major William Mainwaring Burton & wife using Burton Hall as summer home.
1927 Ireland: Burton Hall purchased by Harman Herring Cooper, who demolished part of house in order to use salvaged materials to build a new house within nearby walled gardens – hoard of silver discovered in panelled alcove. 1000 acres of land purchased by Irish Land Commission.
The Information of Catherine Daly of Burton Hall, Carlow, the wife of Jeremiah Daly, Coachman to William Burton, Esquire, of Burton Hall, Carlow.
Sworn on the Holy Evangelists saith that on the night of Tuesday the 12th December 1815 Catherine Daly being in bed with her two children, a rap came to the Door with someone calling her by her name and requested she would get up and give them the loan of some candles to light over one McGrath who lived in the neighbourhood, claiming that McGrath had just died.
Catherine having no person in the house except for her two children objected to opening the Door at so late an hour of the night which she judged to be about twelve or one O’clock.
Catherine told them she had no candles and that she would not get up or open the Door when the persons outside insisted on this, Catherine ordered her Daughter, a little Girl to get up and open the Door.
Then three men entered and Called for the Candles which was handed to them by the Daughter.
They immediately struck up fire Light with the Candles, her Daughter saw their faces were covered and they were armed with pistols, she ran and told her mother that she believed they were Robbers and made an effort to get out to Alarm the neighbours, —–when she was stopped outside the Door by another man whose face was also covered together with a number of others who compelled her to return in again —- when the three men proceeded to the room where Catherine lay and Demanded her money.
Catherine handed them her pockets and said all the money she had was therein contained which amounted to about two shillings.
They then proceeded to Rifle the House and take amongst other things the following articles:-
Soap, Tobacco, Candles, Bread, Herrings, a table Cloth, night Gown, Seven Silver Tea Spoons, Copper Kettle, Brass Candlesticks, a pair of Shoes and pair of Pumps with Several other articles amounting in the whole as Catherine verily believes to the sum of two Guineas.
And further Saith she does not know any of the persons who so Robed her they being disguised by their faces being Covered as aforesaid.
Sworn before me this 30th day of December 1815, (signed) Henry Bunbury.
(signed) Cathy Daly
Jane Smyth 1805.
[Note added 2011. spelt as Smyth by the Magistrate, signed by Jane as Jane Smith.]
From the PPP.
The Information of Jane Smyth wife of James Smyth, Soldier in the City of Cork Regiment of Militia, taken before Henry Bunbury, Esquire, ~ appointed by our Lord, George the Third, King of Great Britain and Ireland, Defender of the Faith and so forth ~ as one of his Majestys Justices of the Peace for the County of Carlow.
Jane Smyth who being Duly Sworn on the Holy Evangelists and Saith, that on Monday the 21st Day of January 1805, Hannah Connelly of Burton Hall in Carlow left a parcel with Jane Smyth wrapped up in an old white dimity petticoat which contained one white muslin Gown and Petty Coat of the same material, one plaid Calico Gown, one old white Cotton Gown, one White dimity petticoat, one Brown steep Petticoat, two shifts, two white Handkerchiefs, one new Yellow silk handkerchief, one White Muslin Cloak, three pair of White Cotton Stockings, ten Caps, and one pair of Spanish Leather Shoes, which Bundle and Property Jane Smyth put under her Bed for Security.
Jane Smyth saith that in her absence from her lodgings the said Bundle Containing the aforesaid articles together with three pair of Cotton Stockings the property of Jane Smyth were feloniously Stolen from her said Lodgings on the Morning of Tuesday the twenty second Day of January 1805.
And further Saith not.
(signed) Jane Smith.
Sworn before me this 24th day of January 1805. (signed) Henry Bunbury.
THE BURTONS WERE MAJOR LANDOWNERS IN COUNTY CARLOW, WITH 5,964 ACRES
SIR EDWARD BURTON, Knight, of Longner, representative of the family, was with EDWARD IV, successful in fourteen set battles between the Houses of York and Lancaster; and for his great loyalty and services, he was made knight-bannaret, under the royal standard in the field, in 1460.
He was succeeded by his son,
SIR ROBERT BURTON, Knight, of Longner, who was knighted by EDWARD IV, in 1478.
This gentleman received a grant of arms from John Writhe, Norroy King of Arms, in the same year, and was father of
SIR EDWARD BURTON, Knight, of Longner, Master of the Robes to HENRY VII. who wedded Jocosa, daughter of Thomas Cressett, of Upton Cressett, Shropshire.
He died in 1524, leaving, with a younger son, Thomas, an elder son, his successor,
JOHN BURTON, of Longner, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Poyner, of Boston, Shrophire, and had issue,
EDWARD, his successor; Jane; Eleanor; Ankekoka; Ann; Ankred; Mary.
Sir Edward died in 1543, and was succeeded by his only son,
EDWARD BURTON, of Longner, who wedded Ann, daughter and heir of Nicholas Madocks, of Wem and Coton, Shrophire, and had issue,
THOMAS, his heir (ancestor of BURTON of Longner); EDWARD, of whom we treat; Humphrey; Timothy; Mary; Dorothy; Katherine.
Mr Burton’s second son,
EDWARD BURTON, had issue, two sons, who both settled in Ireland in 1610,
Francis, dsp; THOMAS, of whom hereafter.
The younger son,
THOMAS BURTON, of Buncraggy, County Clare, whose will was proved in 1666, married Ann, daughter of _____ Shepherd, of Baycote, Herefordshire, and had issue (with two daughters), an only son,
SAMUEL BURTON, of Buncraggy, who married Margery Harris, and died in 1712, leaving issue,
Francis, of Buncraggy, MP; Charles; BENJAMIN, of whom hereafter; Dorothea.
The third son,
BENJAMIN BURTON, becoming an eminent banker in Dublin, was Lord Mayor of that city, 1706, and represented it in parliament, 1703-23.
He espoused, in 1686, Grace, elder daughter of Robert Stratford, of Belan, County Kildare, and had six sons, with as many daughters,
SAMUEL; Robert; Benjamin; Edward; Charles (Sir), MP for Dublin; cr a BARONET; Francis; Mary; Grace; Elizabeth; Lettice; Abigail; Jane.
The eldest son of Benjamin Burton, of Dublin,
SAMUEL BURTON, of Burton Hall, MP for Sligo, 1713, and for Dublin, 1727, High Sheriff of County Carlow, 1724, espoused firstly, in 1708, Anne, daughter of Charles Campbell, of Dublin, and by her (who was killed by the fall of a scaffold at the coronation of GEORGE I in 1714) had issue,
BENJAMIN, his heir; Hughes; Samuel; Katherine; Mary.
He was succeeded by his eldest son,
THE RT HON BENJAMIN BURTON, of Burton Hall, MP for Carlow County, 1761, a distinguished politician and statesman, who wedded, in 1734, the Lady Anne Ponsonby, daughter of Brabazon, 1st Earl of Bessborough, and had issue,
Benjamin, High Sheriff, 1760; MP for Sligo, 1757; d unm, 1763;
WILLIAM, succeeded to the estates;
Campbell;
Ponsonby;
Sarah; Anna.
His second but eldest surviving son,
WILLIAM HENRY BURTON (1739-1818), of Burton Hall, MP for Carlow County, 1768-1800, married, in 1765, Mary, only child of Henry Aston, County Wicklow, and had issue,
BENJAMIN, his heir;
William Henry;
Martha.
Mr Burton’s eldest son,
BENJAMIN BURTON, of Walcot House, Stamford, Lincolnshire, born in 1766, married and was father of
WILLIAM FITZWILLIAM BURTON JP (1796-1844), of Burton Hall, High Sheriff of County Carlow, 1822, who wedded twice and had a numerous family.
His eldest son,
WILLIAM FITZWILLIAM BURTON JP (1826-1909), of Burton Hall, High Sheriff of County Carlow, 1849, 4th Light Dragoons, married twice and was succeeded by his eldest son,
WILLIAM FITZWILLIAM BURTON (1849-1927), of Burton Hall, County Carlow, and Goltho Hall, Wragby, Lincolnshire, who married, in 1877, Georgiana Spencer, fourth daughter of Captain the Hon William Henry George Wellesley RN, and granddaughter of Henry, 1st Lord Cowley.
Mr Burton, High Sheriff of County Carlow, 1910, sold Gotho Hall in 1918.
His children assumed the additional surname of Mainwaring.
He was succeeded by his eldest son,
MAJOR WILLIAM MAINWARING-BURTON (1881-1964), of Marsham Lodge, Gerrard’s Cross, Buckinghamshire, who married and had issue.
BURTON HALL, near Carlow, County Carlow, a house of considerable significance, was begun in 1712.
It contained three storeys on a lofty plinth and nine bays, with a three-bay breakfront centre.
The doorway was rusticated, with many steps; bold quoins; a solid roof parapet.
A bow window was added to the garden front ca 1840, and the top storey was removed.
Burton Hall was sold by William Fitzwilliam Burton in 1927 (who died in the same year) and demolished five years later.
All that remains of Burton Hall’s former existence is a three-bay, single-storey (over basement) granite building, originally a wing of the house, with carved stone dressings.
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