Castlehyde

Castlehyde (Irish: Carraig an Éidigh)[1] is a townland and estate, slightly west of Fermoy in County Cork, Ireland. The estate's manor house, Castlehyde House, had been the ancestral home of Douglas Hyde's family[2] and is one of several houses owned by Irish dancer, Michael Flatley.[3]

Castlehyde
Irish: Carraig an Éidigh
Townland
Ruin of the Norman-era Castle Hyde tower house, formerly Carriganeide
Ruin of the Norman-era Castle Hyde tower house, formerly Carriganeide
Castlehyde is located in Ireland
Castlehyde
Castlehyde
Coordinates: 52.141°N 8.314°W / 52.141; -8.314
CountryIreland
CountyCounty Cork
BaronyCondons and Clangibbon
Civil parishFermoy
Area
 • Total32 ha (79 acres)

The townland of Castlehyde, which is c. 32 hectares (79 acres) in area,[4] is in the civil parish of Fermoy and the historical barony of Condons and Clangibbon.[1] It is bordered by Castlehyde East (198 hectares (490 acres)), in which Castlehyde House is located, and Castlehyde West (17 hectares (42 acres)).[5][6]

History
Entrance gateway and signage at Castlehyde

Initially associated with the Norman Condon family, a four-storey tower house on the site is dated by some sources to the 13th century.[7] Also known as Carriganeide, Carrygnedye or Temple Iogan, this tower house was in use until at least the 16th century.[8][9] Following the Desmond Rebellions in the late 16th century, the castle and its lands were seized by the English Crown from the then Earl of Desmond, and granted to Arthur Hyde.[10][11] The estate subsequently became known as Castle Hyde,[9] and was occupied by the Hyde family for several hundred years.[10]

A later manor house was constructed for the Hyde family, close to the site of the earlier tower house. These initial works were completed, c. 1790, by architect Davis Ducart.[12] Additional expansion works were completed by Abraham Hargrave, a Cork-based builder and architect, c. 1800.[12][13] A Gothic revival church, built in 1809 by G.R. Pain for John Hyde, is located to the north of the house.[14]

In the early 1850s, the Hyde estate of over 11,600 acres, including land in the baronies of Fermoy, Condons and Clangibbon and Imokilly in County Cork and Clanwilliam, Eliogarty and Middlethird in County Tipperary, was advertised for sale.[15] Documents in the Irish National Archives refer to the sale of the Hyde estate, attributing it to "mismanagement of the estates by agents rather than to any faults on the part of the possessors".[15]

At the time of the sale in 1851, Castlehyde House was occupied by Spencer Cosby Price, the brother-in-law of John Hyde.[16] The house passed through several owners, including members of the Wrixon-Becher family,[10] and by the 1940s the building was reputedly "occupied by the military".[16]

The house, which is a protected structure, was purchased and renovated in 1999 by Michael Flatley.[3] As of mid-2020, Flatley was reputedly seeking to sell the property,[2] but subsequently decided against the sale stating that he was "too emotionally attached to Castlehyde".[17]

Further reading
  • Dooley, Terence A. M. (2017). Castle Hyde: The Fall and Rise of an Irish Country House. Maynooth Studies in Irish Local History. Four Courts Press. ISBN 9781846826436.

References
  1. "Carraig an Éidigh / Castlehyde". logainm.ie. Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
  2. "Speculation Michael Flatley's Castlehyde estate has been sold to hotel company". The Corkman. 12 September 2020. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
  3. "Michael Flatley settles High Court claim over work done on his Cork mansion". irishexaminer.com. Irish Examiner. 26 July 2022. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
  4. "Castlehyde Townland, Co. Cork". townlands.ie. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
  5. "Castlehyde East Townland, Co. Cork". townlands.ie. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
  6. "Castlehyde West Townland, Co. Cork". townlands.ie. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
  7. "Flatley hunts gems by Irish greats". independent.ie. Irish Independent. 20 July 2003. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
  8. Gillman, Herbert Webb (1892). "Castlemore, and connected castles in Muskerry, Co. Cork" (PDF). Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society. 1. 1 (12): 234.
  9. Grove-White, James (1905–1925), Historical and Topographical Notes, Etc. on Buttevant: Castletownroche, Doneraile, Mallow, and Places in Their Vicinity, vol. 2, Cork: Guy and Company, p. 88-89
  10. O'Flanagan, J. Roderick (1895). "Recollections of Castle Hyde" (PDF). Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society. 2. 1 (5): 200–207.
  11. Crofton Croker, Thomas (1824). "The River Blackwater". Researches in the South of Ireland. London: John Murray. p. 129. About a mile and half distant [from Fermoy] is Castle Hyde, the seat of Mr. Hyde, to whose ancestor, a grant of six thousand acres of the Earl of Desmond's forfeited ground was made by Elizabeth, as a record for his military services in England
  12. "Castle Hyde, Castlehyde East, Fermoy, Cork". buildingsofireland.ie. National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
  13. "Co. Cork, Castle Hyde". Dictionary of Irish Architects. Irish Architectural Archive. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
  14. "Castle Hyde Church (Litter), Castle Hyde, Castlehyde East, Fermoy, Cork". buildingsofireland.ie. National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
  15. "Hyde (Castle Hyde)". Landed Estates Database. University of Galway. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
  16. "Castle Hyde". Landed Estates Database. University of Galway. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
  17. "The Big Interview: 'I couldn't bring myself to sell my Cork mansion, I'm too emotionally attached' – Michael Flatley". Irish Independent. 19 December 2020. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
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