Fr. Peter Kenney S.J. & the Castle Purchase.

The Wogan Brownes carried out extensive renovoations to the Castle and they changed the name to Castle Browne, which is now inscribed over the main door. Thomas married but had no children so on his death in 1812 his heir, his brother General Michael Wogan Browne, who was in command of the troops of the King of Saxony fighting with Napoleon in Russia, inherited the property. News reached him about his brother's suicide, before the disastrous retreat from Moscow, and so with a passport from Napoleon he returned to Ireland to settle his brother's affairs.

Finding that his brother's estate was heavily in debt he sold the castle and 219 statute acres to Father Peter Kenney, S.J., in March 1814 for £16,000. Father Kenney also bought the old fee farm, but not in fee simple; it cost him £2,753 together with an annual rent of £61 paid until 1903 when it was purchased under the Wyndham Land Act.