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Hello I’m mr pepper from the uk Im wondering if any one could possibly help me My dad that passed away not so long back done a long in depth history of our family the peppers apparently we ,our ancestors owed a castle in Ireland we are looking to visit Ireland in the next couple of weeks to visit Ballygarth castle we are meeting up with some kind lady that’s a professional photographer and she’s going to take some photos of us at the castle the problem is we can not get in touch with the owners of BallyGarth Castle in Meath because theres no phone numbers on google for it the family are called called Delaney apparently looking on Google there’s no phone number I can find for them either in the uk to contact the owners I was wondering if you could possibly help with any contacts that has anything to do with BallyGarth castle or someone that lives around Meath that knows anything you BallyGarth castle is definitely in Meath near Julianstown nearer to Drogheda hopefully speak to someone soon kind regards me pepper , ive looked in depth in to the the history aswell and the peppers saved the castle hundreds of years ago in a war which was called battle of the Boyne if you google the white horse of BallyGarth castle you will see my ancestors photos we would love just to come and even touch the wall of the castle and get some photos it’s not every day you find out your ancestor kernel pepper saved the castle during the war when Cromwell was invading Ireland please message me back anyone if you could I’m desperate to find some one that can tell us if it’s ok to go visit the castle or can put us in touch with someone that has contacts close to it please email at my email address which is terrypepper@hotmail.co.uk if you know anything at all please desperate to come visit but don’t want to travel
All the way from the uk to find it’s a privately owned place and we can’t visit he castle hopefully here from someone soon x

Wednesday 19th Jun 2019, 11:50PM

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  • Welcome to Ireland Reaching Out!

    For checking if Ballygarth Castle is accessible to the public (or how to get permission) try emailing MeathHeritage (info@meathheritage.com) and/ or tthe Heritage Officer at Meath County Council: 

    tel: +353 (046) 9097000

    email: customerservice@meathcoco.ie

    BALLYGARTH CASTLE

    • 1372 First documented reference to castle
    • 1641 Forfeited to the Crown by the Netterville family
    • 1660 Pepper family confirmed by Charles II as owners of Ballygarth Castle and estate

    I see also that Mr Pepper gets a mention in the history of Ballygarth Castle in this folklore story (click here).

    Best of luck!

     

    Rua, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘︎

    Friday 21st Jun 2019, 09:54AM

  • Hello:

     

    Thank you for your query to the Ireland Reaching Out message board.  I will contact someone with local history knowledge and reply to you privately if I'm able to make contact with someone.Please keep us posted on your travel plans so that we may assist you further if you wish.  

     

    Kind regards,

     

    Jane

    Jane Halloran Ryan

    Friday 21st Jun 2019, 10:15AM

  • Thanks every so much for the info and quick reply we have been in touch with a church in Ireland and spoken to a couple of people that know of the castle and the owners we have got a contact number now and have permission to go view the castle and we are looking to travel over from the uk in a couple of weeks to get some photos thank you for your reply if there’s any more peppers out there that think they might be descendants I have documents of the pepper family tree that my dad looked in to before he died there’s probally other people interested in there family tree maybe your family’s if your a pepper from Ireland are related to us thank you again Rua for the info it’s very much appreciated 

     

     

    Friday 21st Jun 2019, 10:26AM

  • Hello again:  I have heard back from my contact who was also making enquiries on your behalf.  However, if you have made your own enquiries, I will tell him to hold off.  As you seem to have a lot of information on the Pepper family, it would be great for other members if you would share some of this with an Ancestor profile on the XO Chronicles tab which is located at the top of this page.  You will find that others who may be researching the same family may have other information which will assist you with your research.  Have a wonderful trip and please let us know how you get on with your trip and your research.  Kind regards,  Jane

    Jane Halloran Ryan

    Monday 24th Jun 2019, 09:45AM

  • Hello again:  I have heard back from my contact who was also making enquiries on your behalf.  However, if you have made your own enquiries, I will tell him to hold off.  As you seem to have a lot of information on the Pepper family, it would be great for other members if you would share some of this with an Ancestor profile on the XO Chronicles tab which is located at the top of this page.  You will find that others who may be researching the same family may have other information which will assist you with your research.  Have a wonderful trip and please let us know how you get on with your trip and your research.  Kind regards,  Jane

    Jane Halloran Ryan

    Monday 24th Jun 2019, 09:45AM

  • Hi Mr Pepper

    An ancestor of yours was a Lt Col Charles Hamden th CastlePepper, born c1783 at Ballygarth Castle. In c1843 he married Matilda Mary French St George of Tyrone House, Co Galway. She was born c1807 and died 19 August 1853. She was my G G Grandaunt.

    Kind Regards

    Brian

    Drinagh

    Sunday 14th Feb 2021, 10:27PM

  • Hi, please delete 'th Castle' in the first line. Not sure what happened.

    Drinagh

    Sunday 14th Feb 2021, 10:29PM

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