198 Proceedings of t/ie lioijal Irish Aemleiiiy. 



an bhi»hioli, Calslean Criaidh (Burke Rental). 1655 Downeter- 

 lea-ne'the estate o£ Jo. CantwcU, sold to Hugh Massy (B.D p. 90) 

 confirmed 1666. His son, Hugh Massy, junior, descnhes its part.a 

 burning by the Irish; but he saved the outbuildings 

 ta'ts (History of the Massy Family, 1890, p. 238). 1701 Hugh 

 Massy made his ^ill "being in danger of death, occasioned by a 

 Jr/d "ceived fi-om Edw. Moore, of Knockhorden " (Prerog., Dublin 



280. Castleckeaoh (49). Site marked. 1540 Caislean criau li 

 in Dimtriliag (Burke Rental). 1655 Castle creh, J Cantwe 1, sola 

 to Hugh M^ssy (B.D., p. 89). 1667 Confirmed to latter, then to 

 % Barraby, then the next year to J. Cantwell. It was aftei;wanls a 

 res'idenc; of the Bennetts, and had fallen into ruin by 1827 (Fit.- 

 Gerald, i., p. 385). 



KlLBEHENEY. 



281. Kilbe™ (58). Marked in "Castle qnarte,^ 1502 

 Donchad O'Brien died; he was lord of rubblebrian -«\Aher oe to 

 Coin beithne (A.F.M.). 1584 Mahowne mac Murrogho B len 

 owned Killine.ehyne (Inq. Exch., 15). It hen i^ssed oJ.lm^ 

 macGibbon the White Knight, who, 1601, captured the Sugan Ea.l 

 and brought him to his C. of Kilvenny (Pat^Hib , u., P- 242). 

 1603 Sir Eic. Boyle was granted Kilvehoine or Kilvehenny nunoi. 

 C with its pastures and mountains, late estate of Mahowin ma 

 Muri gh O'Brien, attainted (Pat. R.). 1608 The We Knight he d 

 Z C.!mill, watercourse, and village at his death ; his g^'-'Jo- ' - 

 unmarried, 1611, when it passed to J'fj.^^^f. 

 Eenton (Inq. Chan., 17b). 1650 Oliver Cro-^^l ""J ^J^^^^y 

 ''I possessed a C. ealled Kilbenny, upon the edge of County 

 of Limerick, where I left 30 foot" (Letter to Lenthal: Cailyle, 

 ed. 1846, vol. ii., p. 142). 1655 Held by Sir ^N . Fenton (C.S., 



'^^^m2'-Th^ tower is 24 feet by 1 8 feet outside, fire stories high ; 

 the lowest is vaulted; and the walls, 4* feet thick. It is near th 

 te Fnnshion and the border of Cork (O.S.L., p. 22^ ; there is an 

 account, with a view, in Journal R.S.A.I., vol. xv. (1880), p. 698). 



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