Bowen's Court

Bowen's Court was a historic country house near Kildorrery in County Cork, Ireland.

The house was built in the 1770s by Henry Cole Bowen.[1] In 1786, it was referred to it as Faraghy, the seat of Mr. Cole Bowen. It was held at one time by Mrs Eliza Bowen, when it was valued at £75. The house was attacked during the Irish Rebellion of 1798. Bowen's Court remained the Bowen family seat until 1959. The last owner was the novelist Elizabeth Bowen. She had a nervous breakdown in the 1950s and abandoned Bowen's Court leaving unpaid wages and bills, then sold it and stayed with friends and at hotels, before she rented a flat in Oxford.[2] Bowen's Court was demolished in 1961.

Elizabeth Bowen wrote a history of the house, entitled Bowen's Court, in 1942 and it is featured in her 1929 novel The Last September.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Houses: Bowen's Court". Ireland: NUI Galway. Retrieved 7 June 2014.
  2. ↑ Glendinning, Victoria (7 February 2009). "I am in your keeping". The Guardian. |section= ignored (help)
  3. ↑ "Elizabeth Bowen". Encyclopaedia Britannica. 7 June 2014.

Coordinates: 52°14′40″N 8°27′40″W / 52.24454°N 8.46123°W / 52.24454; -8.46123


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