Buttevant Castle

The saved account records: Incorporates fabric of thirteenth-century castle.

The saved account records: Detached castellated house, renovated c. 1810.

The saved account records: South-facing entrance elevation, with projecting end towers, four-storey to west and three-storey to east, flanking single-bay three-storey central part having single-storey castellated porch to front, latter with castellated corner turrets having string course.

The saved account records: Outbuildings to rear, comprising remains of two-storey buildings having coursed rubble limestone walls.

Buttevant Castle matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: Built by the Earls of Barrymore in the thirteenth century, the castle was converted into a mansion in the early nineteenth century by John Anderson, founder of Fermoy town, who also built the adjacent castellated flour mill. This interesting project was part of a wider contemporary fondness for all things Gothic, and uses many Gothic-style motifs, such as the flattened ogee-headed arches and narrow loopholes to achieve the appearance of being ancient. Although now derelict, the building retains much of its nineteenth century character. At four storeys high, the size of the building is quite dominant in the… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.