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| thomas_murray_prior [2022/01/17 15:16] – [Thomas and Catherine Murray Prior] judith | thomas_murray_prior [2022/01/17 15:17] – [Thomas and Catherine Murray Prior] judith |
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| More light is shed on this by an article on Laois houses. It claims that "Leet’s directory lists Water Castle as the seat of Thomas Prior esq in 1814, who had been living at Attavilla in Borris in Ossory in 176[?], when he was letting a mill in Rathdowney, and was sheriff of the Queen’s County for 1799, and Captain of the Rathdowney Infantry. Sadly in 1824 he was up in the Insolvent Debtors Court in Maryborough."(([[https://laoishouses.wordpress.com/2021/11/13/coolfin-rathdowney/]])) Presumably the estate was forfeited to pay for his debts.\\ | More light is shed on this by an article on Laois houses. It claims that "Leet’s directory lists Water Castle as the seat of Thomas Prior esq in 1814, who had been living at Attavilla in Borris in Ossory in 176[?], when he was letting a mill in Rathdowney, and was sheriff of the Queen’s County for 1799, and Captain of the Rathdowney Infantry. Sadly in 1824 he was up in the Insolvent Debtors Court in Maryborough."(([[https://laoishouses.wordpress.com/2021/11/13/coolfin-rathdowney/]])) Presumably the estate was forfeited to pay for his debts.\\ |
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| {{:watercastle.jpg?300|}} This image illustrates the above article by laoishouses.wordpress.com. A recent photograph available on Google images suggests that the building is now derelict. | {{:watercastle.jpg?300|}} This image of Water Castle in Durrow, Country Laois, illustrates the above article by laoishouses.wordpress.com. A recent photograph available on Google images suggests that the building is now derelict. |
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