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Built by Arthur Kiely-Ussher to Please his overdemanding Wife,,,,He is remembered in this area not for his Fanciful Building Designs,,but with the cruelty which he treated his Tenants during the Famine,,,Having built his fancy Gate Entrance,,,With Minature Gothic Castles each side at a cost of £2,000,,he now needed money to build his Mansion,,In the late 1840s the Potatoe Blight ,resulted in his Tenants being unable to pay their Rents,,,While other Landlords in this area,,including his brother John,,were keeping People Alive by Employing them and Reducing Rents,,Arthur Kiely-Ussher began by Evicting them and Knocking Down their Houses and Replaced People with cattle and sheep,,In vain hope that this would raise the required income,to Build the Mansion of his wife's Dreams,,In 1847 a Reporter from " The Cork Examiner " Newspaper,,Described the mass eviction on Kiely - Ussher's Estate at Ballysaggartmore and found 12 to 14 Houses Levelled to yhe ground,,Groups of Famished Women Crying,,Children still hovered round the place of their Birth,,,,In Desperation a group of Tenants plotted to Assasinate the Hated Landlord in 1847,,the plot Failed and Reward was offered for the capture of the Conspirators,,,They were captured,,Tried and found Guilty and were Transported to Van Dimien's Land [Tasmania] in October 1849,,,,to be continued with more photographs !!!!!!
Ballysaggartmore Towers Entrance Lodge,,Nr. Lismore,,County Waterford,#1
Comments
Refit
Date: 14/07/2014 | By: F. Lacer Hayes
If at all possible it remains that it would be a grand project to refit this into a suitable residence to offer protection as well as services to those in need. I myself would be more than delighted to dedicate resources from Celtic Flairs and weigh-in to bring a project of this nature to fruition. Perhaps this does bear a bit more research to make this take place. Thank you...
Re: Refit
Date: 17/07/2014 | By: Chloie
This does not look like a castle to me . It looks like a gate lodge to me , a reflection of the real castle .
Restore it
Date: 12/07/2014 | By: Kate Helstrom
Such a blight on the memory of the community should be resurrected to a good purpose, such as recommended by other folks here. God will turn a thing meant for evil into a good thing, if we just do His will.
Use it to teach skills.
Date: 10/07/2014 | By: Theilman
Make a shelter out of it and have the old people who know masonry teach it to the young so they can revamp. Then employ the homeless and teach gardening skills and make it a show spot so they can partly feed themselves and rent out to parties?
Re: Use it to teach skills.
Date: 14/07/2014 | By: Lindsay
Excellent idea. Love the thought of taking something that took so much from the community and using it to give back. Seems the proper thing to do.
dream hous
Date: 12/04/2014 | By: Seamroeg
Just looking at the picture without the story...didn't like the feeling. Then reading the story. A memorial garden should go up next to it. Let it fall down and crumble. Greed does that to a soul, let that be the lesson taken from it.
awesome revamp
Date: 09/04/2014 | By: Neil
would love to get my friends together and revamp this place into a luxury pad fit for a king....
Another perspective
Date: 09/04/2014 | By: Elle
I realise he did so many people wrong and all but there's also another side to it. He did all of these horrible things to give his wife the live she wanted. He could have said no (and should have) but instead he wanted to give her everything she wanted.
It's still horrible he hurt so many people, I just can't help but see the reason why as well
Re: Another perspective
Date: 14/07/2014 | By: Dan Buckley
Adam also sought to appease his wife.