Editing Castlebridge (section)

==''Guinness Book of Records''==
Castlebridge is the founding place of the ''[[Guinness Book of World Records]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://guinness.book-of-records.info/history.html |title=The History of the Book |work=Guinness Record Book Collecting |access-date=4 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120225172648/http://guinness.book-of-records.info/history.html |archive-date=25 February 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> On 10 November 1951, [[Sir Hugh Beaver]], then the managing director of the [[Guinness]] Breweries, went on a shooting party in the [[North Slob]], by the [[River Slaney]] in County Wexford, Ireland. He became involved in an argument over which was the fastest game bird in Europe, the [[golden plover]] or the [[red grouse]] (the former being correct).<ref>{{cite book|author=Fionn Davenport|title=Ireland|year=2010|page=193|isbn=9781742203508|publisher=Lonely Planet|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RfL3QnPMi9oC&pg=PA193|access-date=4 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160513022833/https://books.google.com/books?id=RfL3QnPMi9oC&pg=PA193|archive-date=13 May 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> That evening at Castlebridge House, he realised that it was impossible to confirm in reference books whether or not the golden plover was Europe's fastest game bird.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://freespace.virgin.net/james.robertson/history2.htm |title=Early history of Guinness World Records |page=2 |year=2005 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070701200438/http://freespace.virgin.net/james.robertson/history2.htm |archive-date=1 July 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Publication of the Guinness Book of Records: 27 August 1955|first=Richard|last=Cavendish|journal=[[History Today]]|volume=55|date=August 2005}}</ref> Beaver knew that there must be numerous other questions debated nightly in pubs throughout Ireland, but there was no book in the world with which to settle arguments about records. He realised then that a book supplying the answers to this sort of question might prove popular.<ref>{{cite book|title=Guinness World Records 2005|year=2004|page=6|isbn=1892051222|publisher=Guinness; 50th Anniversary edition}}</ref>

In 2019, [[Diageo]] and the Pattison Group, who own the rights to the Guinness Book of Records, were described as being "really taken" with Castlebridge House, which has been left derelict, with feasibility studies now in operation by Wexford County Council amid interest by Diageo and the Pattison Group to assess the damage and plan for its eventual restoration, which, in collaboration with Diageo and the Pattison Group, is hoped to become a tourist attraction for the home of the Guinness Book of Records.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/regionals/wexfordpeople/record-book-makers-interested-in-castlebridge-house-38335560.html |title=Record Book makers interested in Castlebridge House |year=2019 }}</ref> This was further emphasised by the commencement of the first annual ''Castlebridge Record Makers Family Fun Festival'' in 2019, with exhibits on the history of the book and its importance to Castlebridge.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/regionals/wexfordpeople/news/festival-for-the-record-books-38397872.html |title=Festival for the record books |year=2019 }}</ref>