Ballysaggartmore Towers Entrance Lodge,,Nr. Lismore,,County Waterford,#1

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 !!!!!!