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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
price
Date: 08/04/2014 | By: laurie
How much is the price? It would be a shame to tear this down, bad or not, its the energy you exorcise and make it better.. Put your homage and love into it, and it will never be the same! I would love to live there, and do something good for people... I would absolutely give up what I have to live there!
Re: price
Date: 11/07/2014 | By: Eileen
I would live their and bring love back too it ,I want to go home !!
Castle
Date: 07/04/2014 | By: Larry
Should be pulled down and a memorial built to all the people he wronged.
Re: Castle
Date: 09/04/2014 | By: Mandi
They are DEAD!!! What is a memorial going to do?? Having history standing in front of you is pretty unreal. Why not put a plaque on the wall telling the story?! Comments lie your destroy it for everyone else!
Re: Re: Castle
Date: 14/07/2014 | By: tonya
You are so right its beautiful if I had the money I would love to live in something that has a history that is cruel what he did for the lower class people but he did it to impress and make his wife the person he loves happy and give her whatever she wanted to show her what she ment to him you can't say no one has done something like that to improve the lives
Ballysaggartmore
Date: 07/04/2014 | By: Nancy Brophy
A memorial/school/garden such as A. Chavez has proposed would go a long way toward exorcising its grim history. That some worked to save people by employing them and reducing their rents and others resorted to eviction and house destruction sounds eerily similar to events in the recent recession. Also can't help but notice that the necessity of the use of cruelty was blamed on a woman by a man. Hoping for and imagining Ballysaggartmore being used for the caring and edification of humankind.
Re: Ballysaggartmore
Date: 07/04/2014 | By: Lori Bell
A memorial garden is a wonderf idea Nancy
Re: Dream Home
Date: 06/04/2014 | By: Marilyn
What an awful history! Can we exorcise it first?