What is recorded here

Bremore Castle kept a dovecote among eight gardens and 132 acres in 1567, though no stones or marker now show where the birds flew. Edward Barnewall of Drimnagh held the place through Balrothery, giving it a legal shape even when its boundary faded. The missing dovecote is not a gap in the story; it is the story, a household so ordinary it disappeared while the castle name remained.

The precise location of a dovecote on the estate of Bremore Castle (DU002-002001-) has not been identified. In an inquisition of 1567 the estate at Bremore is stated to have consisted of ‘a castle, 8 messuages or buildings, a dovecote, 8 gardens and 132 acres’ and to have been held by Edward Barnewall of Drimnagh [DU018-036----], ‘as of his manor of Balrothery’ (Kelly and Cogan et. al. 2013, 24). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

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