Annotation:Tinnehinch Castle
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TINNEHINCH CASTLE. Irish, Air (3/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. wikipedia:Tinnahinch_Castle is a ruined tower house in County Carlow, built by James Butler in 1615, last occupied by the family member known locally as Mad Butler who was burned outside the tower due to the scandals that involved his family. The tower was burned in 1700 and has been in ruins ever since. According to informant William Grace, a teacher at Graiguenamanagh, County Kilkenny (as recorded at dúchas.ie [1]):
The word Tinnehinch probably means "the house of the Island or River Meadown". To-day Tinnehinch is a little village on the Carlow side of the river Barrow opposite Graignamanagh on the Kilkenny side. One house there is called the "hotel" for such it was in the days of the Bianconi Stage Couches. The Castle of Tinnehinch was built by the Butlers in the 16th century to protect a ford across the Barrow. It is a strong, square, two-storey structure, the ruins of which have been admirably preseved. Butler was a man of fierce temper. He is supposed to have drowned a number of people, whom he invited to a banquet, in the castle, and because of this atrocity rain falls every day on which fairs or markets are held in Graignamanagh.
