Borris House

[@mikemynhardt6197]

Bloody good Greg!!!

[@mikekavanagh8952]

Borris house in Co, Kilkenny ,Ireland once the seat of the powerful Kings of Leinster The Kavanahgs who controlled large tracts of land in Counties Carlow, Kilkenny and Wexford,The house is now a Luxurious Hotel famous throughout The World, In the course of of the 50 years from 1550 to1600 the Kavanaghs were forced to give up the claim to be the Kings Of Leinster and the title of Mc Murrough (or Chief of the Kavanaghs ) was also forcibly relinquished. However as late as the first decade of the 1600 Donal Spainneach Kavanagh, the last great leader of the Clanwas being encouraged to revive the claim to be King of Leinster,by the great O'Neill Chieftain of Tyrone, During this period many of the smaller Clan or Chieftain landholders of Carlow and Wexford sold their patrimony so that by 1641 any lands remaining were in the hands of only a few descendants of the King, After the Battle of Kinsale Ireland was no more a land ok Kings and chieftains , Many of the Kavanaghs were shipped to the colonies as slave labour for sugar and tobacco plantations, some were shipped to Barbadoes, North Carolina, Virginia, And more were sold as Slaves to possibly a French Colony at the Mouth of The Amazon River, many more went to European Countries in the latter years and some became generals in Spanish ,Polish, French and Austrian Armies The name Kavanagh was first recorded in Irish history approx 951.

[@stephencavanagh2759]

mike kavanagh Mike,Borris house is in Co.Carlow. I am a clan member.:)

[@mikekavanagh8952]

Sorry about that Stephen apology for mistake, I must visit it sometime i was told it is a very nice place.