Barton of Straffan House, County Kildare, and Grove, County Tipperary

Barton of Straffan House, County Kildare, and Grove, County Tipperary

The remarkable tale of the family of ‘Wine Geese’ who, having arrived in Ireland in the last year of Queen Elizabeth’s reign, prospered in the wine trade despite the French Revolution.  They owned the Châteaux Léoville Barton and Langoa vineyards from where some of...
Barton & Childers of Glendalough House, Co. Wicklow

Barton & Childers of Glendalough House, Co. Wicklow

  “Fide et Fortitude” (By fidelity and fortitude)   The story of the Barton family is told in depth in my account of the Bartons of Straffan House, County Kildare, and Grove, County Tipperary. What follows here is a shorter précis of that, related to the branch that...