Chantry-Restaurant.com
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The Chantry Restaurant - Bunclody, Co. Wexford, Ireland
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Bunclody is the anglicized version of an Irish descriptive ‘bun clodaigh’ or ‘bun cladaigh’ which roughly translated means ‘the end of the stony stream’. The stream is question is the Clody, which ends where it joins the River Slaney at the bridge on the Carnew road, which is immediate to the present town. Any habitation that was in the area probably began in Carrigduff. There is a ruin in Carrigduff that was a castle and later a large house. A man called Carragh Duff Kavanagh in the late 16th century built the Castle. He was a scion of the great house of Kavanagh and particularly of the sept of Art Bui Kavanagh, the McMurrough and King of Leinster in the early part of the 16th century. Art Bui’s descendants were forced to remove from Enniscorthy in the middle of the century and they built a castle at Clonmullen near what is now modern Bunclody. Carragh Duff was a great grandson of Art Bui. The Kavanaghs continued to live in Carragh Duff’s castle until the Cromwellian times and indeed much later as Charles Kavanagh of Carragh Duff was living there in 1690 when he was outlawed for being a Jacobite.
After that time the lands, which were still held by Charles, were confiscated and became the property of the 1st Lord Altham a son of the Earl of Anglesey (who was granted huge swathes of land in north Co. Wexford and indeed in other counties also). This was a period of great opportunity for upwardly mobile Protestants as the great landowners such as the Angleseys were selling off or leasing much of their lands. 10,000 acres around what is now called Bunclody was bought by a consortium headed by a man called Barry in the early decades of the 18th century. This was constituted into an estate with a dwelling in what is now the town with houses built nearby to accommodate the workers and tradesmen. A beautiful stone church was built for the Protestant population with an elegeant spire that is still maintained in pristine condition by the Church of Ireland. The town was called Newtownbarry. When we think or talk about Bunclody History we should remember that the original town was Newtownbarry.
Barry had no son but his daughter Judith married John Maxwell who became the first Lord Farnham in 1756. The Maxwell Barry family continued with the estate and their Cavan properties also until the middle of the 19th century. They built a fine house at Woodfield, just outside the town. However the Newtownbarry estate became a liability and was sold by the Encumbered Estates Court to a Samuel Ashton in 1854. He sold the 10,000-acre estate to Robert Westley Hall-Dare in 1861. The sale of course included the town. The Hall Dares then built a new house on the site of the old one at Woodfield. Sir Charles Lanyon designed the Hall-Dare house. With the passing of the Land Acts at the turn of the century most of the estate was carved up and disposed of to the tenants. The demesne and the town however remained in the possession of the Hall-Dare family, but in latter years some of the properties have been sold.
