Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1912 — Utilizing the Castle. [ARTICLE]

Utilizing the Castle.

One of the young men attached tn the American embassy at London brought back with him a story that has to do with a feature of the Dufferin estate, near Belfast—a historic ruin In the shape of a castle that had been a stronghold of the O’Neils. It appears that one day Lord Dufferin visited It with his steward, one Mulligan, and that he drew a line with his walking-stick round it/ at the same time instructing the steward to build a protecting wall on that line. Then Dufferin went to the continent, feeling quite secure as to the preservation iff the historic feature. Upon his return to Ireland he visited the estate. The castle was gone. He nibbed his eyes and looked again. Then he sent for. Mulligan. "Where’s the castle?” he asked. “The castle, me lord? Sure, I pulled it down to build the wall with."