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An old map published around 1610 by John Speed showing Warwick; the castle is in the south of the town, next to the River Avon. Warwick Castle is situated in the town of Warwick, on a sandstone bluff at a bend of the River Avon. The river, which runs below the castle on the east side, has eroded the rock the castle stands on, forming a cliff.
The Black Castle, Wicklow Town (now ruins). In 834 AD the Vikings fortified a strategic rocky promontory at the mouth of the Vartry River in Wicklow Town. Following the Norman invasion a castle was subsequently built, now known as the Black Castle. Between 1295 and 1315 the castle was attacked and burnt down twice by the local O'Byrne Clan.
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
"By 1792" indicates baronies listed in 1792 in Memoir of a map of Ireland by Daniel Beaufort. "Divided by 1821" indicates where a single barony in Hiberniae Delineatio corresponds to two (half-)baronies in the 1821 census data. These divisions had been effected by varying statutory means in the intervening decades.
Castles have played an important military, economic and social role in Great Britain and Ireland since their introduction following the Norman invasion of England in 1066. . Although a small number of castles had been built in England in the 1050s, the Normans began to build motte and bailey and ringwork castles in large numbers to control their newly occupied territories in England and the ...
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Motte-and-bailey castles were adopted in Scotland, Ireland, the Low Countries and Denmark in the 12th and 13th centuries. By the end of the 13th century, the design was largely superseded by alternative forms of fortification, but the earthworks remain a prominent feature in many countries.