School: Caisleán Uí Liatháin (B.) (roll number 1867)
- Location:
- Castlelyons, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Éamonn Ó Ceallacháin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0381, Page 125
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Caisleán Uí Liatháin (B.)
- XML Page 125
- XML “Landlord”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- The ruins of Barrymore Castle where Lord Barrymore lived one hundred years ago are still to be seen at Castlelyons. It is said that Lord Barrymore was a very cruel man. There is still to be seen what is called the murdering hole of the castle and it is said that for the least fault men were thrown into the hole.
There was a story told that Lord Barrymore had a young colt that no one could catch to manage to train him Lord Barrymore was furious that he himself or none of his staff could manage him. A widow came to the castle and told him that her son could train the colt. The son came and succeeded in training the colt. Lord Barrymore got jealous of the strength of the young man and ordered the young man to be put to death. And his mother the widow came and cursed Lord Barrymore and said to him that soon the grass would be growing on the castle. And very shortly afterward a fire broke out and destroyed the whole place. It was burning for four weeks.
- Collector
- James T. Barry
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kill Saint Anne South, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Thomas Barry
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kill Saint Anne South, Co. Cork
