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Lismore Castle is a castle in County Waterford
in the Republic of Ireland.
It was owned by Sir Walter Raleigh, then by Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, and by his
descendants upto another Richard Boyle,
4th Earl of Cork & 3rd Earl of Burlington (earlier creation), who was a noted influence on Georgian architecture (and
known in architectural histories as the Earl of Burlington or as Lord Burlington).
When Burlington's younger and only surviving daughter (and thus his heiress), Lady Charlotte Boyle (1731-1754) suo jure Baroness Clifford, married
William Cavendish,
4th Duke of Devonshire, and owner of Chatsworth, Derbyshire and Hardwicke Hall, the Castle came into the possession of the Dukes of Devonshire, along with other Boyle properties (Chiswick House, Bolton Abbey and others).
The earldom of Burlington was recreated for Lord George Cavendish, a younger son of the 4th Duke and Lady Charlotte Boyle,
Baroness Clifford. It was his grandson the 2nd Earl of Burlington who succeeded his first cousin once removed the 6th Duke of
Devonshire as the 7th Duke. Fortunately, the 7th Duke had been married to the 6th Duke's niece Lady Blanche Howard, a daughter of
the 6th Earl of Carlisle. They were parents of the 8th Duke of
Devonshire, a prominent politician as Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire and the assassinated
Lord Frederick Cavendish.
Edmund Spenser wrote The Faerie Queen at Lismore.
Lismore Castle is still owned by the Duke of Devonshire,
along with Chatsworth (technically owned by a family trust) and Bolton Abbey.
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