Burrenwood

Burrenwood is a country house and estate near Castlewellan, County Down, Northern Ireland. The building is listed in category B ( Grade B ) of the Statutory List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest and is a listed building.

History

The forested and agriculturally undeveloped property in Burrenwood was Theodosia Hawkins - Magill (* September 5, 1743, † March 2, 1817 ), daughter of Robert Hawkins - Magill and later Countess of Clanwilliam, awarded as agricultural domain. The country house is a semi- circular layout of the villa and was built in the late 18th century near Castlewellan.

Burrenwood is from the plant similar to the Swiss cottage in Cahir ( Co. Tipperary, Republic of Ireland), the Derry Morehouse in Bessbrook in Newry ( County Armagh, Northern Ireland) and the Petit Hameau de la Reine at Versailles. All these buildings were inspired by the French Jesuit priest and architectural theorist Marc- Antoine Laugier. The property is located between the forest park of the Earl of Clanbrassil, the Tollymore Forest Park of the Earl of Roden, and the possession of the Earl Annesley of Castlewellan in the County of Down, near the Mourne Mountains that served the writer CS Lewis as an inspiration for his " chronicles of Narnia ".