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The last of the family to reside at Ballyseedy Castle was Hilda Blennerhassett (b.1884 d.1965). Following her death the house and what remained of the estate was sold out of the family, in 1967, to become "Ballyseede Castle" Hotel.
An auction of house contents, "objets d'art, furniture, antique silver, china, etc", was held at Ballyseedy in June 1967. The sale catalogue includes a number of pieces of Elizabethan and Jacobean oak furniture (items 190, 191, 194, 195, 198, 235, 236) which will, probably, have come from "old" Ballyseedy, the house the present Ballyseedy Castle eventually superseded, whose ruins may still be seen a short distance inside the western edge of Ballyseedy wood. Where is this old oak furniture now, I wonder?
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Ballyseedy Castle Contents Auction 1967 Sale Catalogue
