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provided that he had no male issue. On the registration of a judgment mortgage in 1890 his interest was forfeited, and the estate became vested in the trustees... The
Marquise, who had a charge of £111,352 under a mortgage on the property, filed the petition for sale." The property sold in 1922, Greville-Nugent moving to his wife's estate in Scotland.
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66:. It is a square, symmetrical, two-storey castle-like building of cut limestone with four tall, round corner towers at each corner. The interior has a large two-storey hall with a gallery and arcading. It was one of the last Victorian baronial castles to be built in Ireland.
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