Buttevant also has many literary associations: Edmund Spenser, from his manor at Kilcolman, referred to it and the gentle Mullagh (the Awbeg River) in "The Faerie Queen "; Anthony Trollope passed through in his novel "Castle Richmond"; James Joyce played a game of hurling there in his "Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man"; the revered Canon Sheehan of Doneraile mentions Buttevant in several of his novels, not least in "Glenanaar" in the setting of the fatal events of the Fair of Rathclare; and Elizabeth Bowen mentions it in her elegiacal family history "Bowen's Court".