![]() ![]() ![]() Today Ballybur Castle is also a popular venue for wedding receptions. The Grey family have restored the castle with careful attention to detail, and I have been welcomed there on countless visits in recent years. ![]() This castle, which stands to the east of the road between Kilkenny City and Callan, was lost by my branch of the Comerford family during the Cromwellian confiscations in the 17th century, and despite many efforts was never recovered by the family.īallybur Castle passed to the Mansergh family, and later passed through the hands of other families, including the St George, Delhunty, Deignan and Murphy families, and it was bought from the Marnell family in 1970s by Frank and Aifric Grey. Kathleen Murphy of Ballybur Castle and Count Thomas O’Loughlin after their wedding in Saint John’s Church, Kilkenny, on 27 September 1911įor generations, Ballybur Castle near Cuffesgrange, was the principal seat of the Comerford family in Co Kilkenny. ![]()
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