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During the Williamite war in Ireland Donough MacCarty, 4th Earl of Clancarty, turned Jacobite and let on 11 September 1689 Macroom Castle be used as a prison for Protestants evicted from Cork. [24] [25] In 1691 the castle was occupied by the Williamites but then besieged by the Jacobites until Major Percy Kirke came and relieved it. [26]
Ballynastragh House depicted in 1826, typical of the "Big Houses" targeted by the IRA.By the start of the Irish revolutionary period in 1919, the Big House had become symbolic of the 18th and 19th-century dominance of the Protestant Anglo-Irish class in Ireland at the expense of the native Roman Catholic population, particularly in southern and western Ireland.
Macroom's Irish language name, Maigh Chromtha, likely translates as 'crooked plain' in reference to the bend in the River Sullane on which its historic core is situated.It has also been suggested that it may translate as "meeting place of followers of the god Crom" or "crooked oak", [5] the latter a reference to a large oak tree that apparently grew in the town-square during the reign of King ...
Restaurant, château, hotel: restored castle, hotel: Dromore Castle County Clare 52°55′32″N 8°57′46″W: Tower house: Dunmackelim Castle: Freaghcastle Kilfarboy 52°52′34″N 9°26′12″W [69] Promontory fort [69], contour fort [69] Gleninagh Castle County Clare 53°8′16″N 9°12′21″W: Castle: Gregans Castle 53°4′36″N 9 ...
The property was granted to a Colonel Reide after 1641. It is believed that Lieutenant Nathaniel Evanson (he received 2,400 acres (9.7 km 2) at Castle Donovan after the 1641 rebellion) moved to Cul na Long after 1660, as Four Mile Water Castle. The adjoining Durrus Court was known as Brookfield in 1823 and the residence of Evanson, a magistrate.
The house is set on a 840-acre (3.4 km 2) estate and now operates as a five-star hotel with a golf course and other accommodation on the rest of the resort. Adare Manor was voted "Ireland's Leading Hotel" at the World Travel Awards in 2010, 2011 and 2012 and "The World's Leading Boutique Golf Resort" in 2012.