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A castle located on the River Shannon in the town of Athlone, near the centre of Ireland, and possibly standing on the site of an earlier timber keep built by King Tairrdelbach Ua Conchobair of Connacht in the 12th century, [128] The current structure began with the castle's donjon upon the motte and was later expanded upon via a curtain wall ...
This category relates to castles sited in the island of Ireland as a whole, including both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The island of Ireland contains a number of castles of various sizes, ages and conditions. The most notable date from the medieval Norman period of Irish history (1169-1500).
O'Dea Castle – County Clare – a 15th-century castle with high cross and visitor's centre; Oldbridge Estate – site of Battle of the Boyne; Old Mellifont Abbey – Tullyallen, Drogheda, County Louth – Ireland's first Cistercian abbey. Ormonde Castle – Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary – 1560s Elizabethan manor house
List of castles in Ireland; B. Bermingham Castles of Ireland; K. Kilcurl; O. O'Rourke's Castle
The Crom Estate (pronounced K-ROM') is a nature reserve located in the south of County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, along the shores of Upper Lough Erne.It is one of three estates owned and managed by the National Trust in County Fermanagh, the others being Florence Court and Castle Coole mansions.
Thoor Ballylee Castle (Irish Túr Bhaile Uí Laí) is a fortified, 15th-century Anglo-Norman tower house built by the septs de Burgo, or Burke, near the town of Gort in County Galway, Ireland. It is also known as Yeats's Tower because it was once owned and inhabited by the poet William Butler Yeats .
Dunlough Castle, standing atop the cliffs at the northern tip of the Mizen Peninsula, looks at the Atlantic Ocean from the extreme southwest point of Ireland. Founded in 1207 by Donagh O’Mahony, Dunlough is one of the oldest castles in Ireland and an example of Norman architecture and dry stone masonry.
Crom Castle (Irish: Caisleán na Croime) is a country house on the shores of Upper Lough Erne in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, the seat of the Earls Erne. Standing within the 1,900-acre (7.7 km 2) Crom Estate, [1] and within a formal garden, the castle is built in stone. A central battlemented tower includes the main entrance, and there ...
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