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House: Ballyturin
| Estate(s): | ||
| Property/House name: | Ballyturin | |
| Description: | At the time of Griffith's Valuation Ballyturin House was the residence of John Bagot. In 1906 John C. Bagot was the owner of the house which was valued at £17. It was located in a commanding position overlooking rolling countryside. In May 1921, an RIC man (District/Inspector Cecil Blake), his wife and two British Army officers (Capt Cornwallis and Lt McCreery) were killed in an ambush by South Galway/East Clare Irish Volunteers at the gates of Ballyturin House. Margaret, Mrs Robert Gregory of Coole Park (Lady Gregory's daughter-in-law) escaped without injury. Ballyturin is now a ruin. | |
| Townland: | Ballyturin | |
| Civil Parish: | Kilbeacanty | |
| Poor Law Union: | Gort | |
| DED: | Kilbeacanty 100 | |
| Barony: | Kiltartan | |
| County: | Galway | |
| OS Sheet Number: | 123/129 | |
| OSI Grid Reference: | M494004 | |
| Latitude / Longitude: |
53.05189 -8.75466 [ Google Earth ] [ Google Maps ] | |
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Images
Ballyturin (Illustration courtesy of Dr. Patrick Melvin & Eamonn de Burca)
Ruin of Ballyturin ( National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, ww.buildingsofireland.ie).
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Landed Estates Database, 1.2.7b2, 18 May 2011, Phase II beta