201:. Anticipating that Ormonde would try to seize Baggotrath Castle, Jones took the precaution of partly destroying it. Nonetheless, Ormonde was determined that the castle should be fortified if possible. On 1 August a troop of 1,500 men was sent to secure it but, for reasons which have never been clear, they took the whole night to travel a distance of about a mile. When Ormonde himself arrived he found that nothing had been done to fortify the castle. Meanwhile, Jones had been alerted to Ormonde's arrival and attacked the castle with some 5,000 men. The Royalist
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in 1791, some years before what remained of the castle was demolished by the corporation to allow for the extension of Baggot Street. The name is preserved in
Baggotrath Lane, a narrow side street which connects Lower Baggot Street with Merrion Street.
155:. Her husband raised a substantial troop of soldiers, attacked the castle, and according to the charges laid against him, he "feloniously murdered" the judge, who was sitting peacefully at supper, quite unaware of the dangers. The charge of
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85:, possession of the castle, which was described as "the strongest fortress near Dublin", was a matter of great importance to both sides in the conflict, and it was largely destroyed during the
132:, who purchased the lands from Nicholas de Hyntenberge about 1280 and built the castle. From the Bagods, ownership of the castle passed to the Fitzwilliam family, who later held the title
151:. Cornwalsh took possession of the castle, a move which was greatly resented by Sir Edward Perrers' daughter Ismaye, who had married into the wealthy and acquisitive Fitzwilliam family of
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