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Dunboy Castle (Irish: Caisleán Dhún Baoi) is a ruined 15th-century castle on the Beara Peninsula in south-west Ireland near the town of Castletownbere. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The castle's tower house and bawn were destroyed in the 1602 Siege of Dunboy , though its ruins remain open to the public.
Dunboy Castle is near the town of Castletownbere, on the Beara Peninsula in south-western Ireland. It was a stone tower house , built to control and defend the harbour of Bearhaven, which was a stronghold of Donal Cam O'Sullivan Beare , a Gaelic leader and the 'Chief of Dunboy'.
In June, an English force attacked Dunboy Castle, one of the more prominent forts in O'Sullivan territory. [1] While O'Sullivan had returned south from Ulster, he was not present at the siege. While the main English force besieged Dunboy Castle, a detachment under George Carew attacked a small fort on the island of Dursey about 20 km away.
Donal Cam O'Sullivan Beare was born in 1560. [1] His father was killed in 1563, but he was considered too young to inherit and the clan's leadership passed to the chief's surviving brother Eoin, who was confirmed by Dublin Castle administration with the title Lord of Beare and Bantry.
The latter was preparing to hand the castle over to English forces when O'Sullivan's men who took over the fort and overpowered them. Contrary winds and sickness forced the English to return and thus Dunboy remained in O'Sullivan's hands. Saavedra's men were however released and sent to English lines for transportation back to Spain. [77]
O'Sullivan (Irish: Ó Súilleabháin, Súileabhánach) is an Irish Gaelic clan based most prominently in what is today County Cork and County Kerry.According to traditional genealogy, the O’Sullivans were descended from the ancient Eóganacht Chaisil sept of Cenél Fíngin, the founder of the clan who was placed in the 9th century, eight generations removed from Fíngen mac Áedo Duib, king ...
MacGeoghan was born in Westmeath near Uisneach in 1702. His father was a moderately wealthy farmer, [1] belonging to the same prominent Geoghegan family as figures such as Richard MacGeoghegan (defended Dunboy Castle against George Carew, 1st Earl of Totnes), Connell MacGeoghegan (translated the Annals of Clonmacnoise), [2] and Francis O'Molloy (author of the Lucerna Fidelium).
In 1621 he published his Catholic History of Ireland, a work which is described as "deliberately polemical", [3] and in the Catholic Encyclopedia as "not always reliable, but valuable for the Irish wars of the author's own day". [4] He also wrote a Life of St. Patrick, a confutation of Gerald of Wales and a reply to James Usher's attack on his ...