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The castle was built early in the 12th century by the sons of Ruaidrí na Saide Buide (d. 1118) aided by William FitzAldelm and is one of the oldest mortared castles in Ireland. [ citation needed ] The Lord Justice Sir Edmond Butler, in 1225, caused Odo O'Flatherty to give up Castlekirk to Aedh Ua Conchobair , King of Connaught; for assurance ...
Almost two hundred years later in 1837, Duke George Montagu built the current castle to serve as the residence of the Montagu family in Ireland. In the 1950s, the castle and estate were sold by Alexander Montagu to a business man from Tandragee by the name of Mr. Hutchison, and so the castle came to house the Tayto potato crisp factory and the ...
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
Ashford Castle — Ireland. ... a 14th-century Spanish castle saturated with history. The complex comprises the Old Castle, an Arab fortress dating back to the 12th or 13th century, and the New ...
Belleek Castle, originally known as Belleek Manor, [1] is a 19th-century manor house in Ballina, County Mayo in Ireland. Now operated as a hotel, the house was built between 1825 and 1831 in a neo-Gothic style. [2] The 10-room hotel has a museum in its basement containing what is reputed to be Grace O'Malley's bed. [3]
Menlo (or Menlough) Castle, County Galway, in 2010. Overgrowth has since been removed. The ruined castle ruin is on the bank of the River Corrib. Menlo Castle or Menlough Castle (Irish: Caisleán Mhionlaigh), [1] also called Blake's Castle, is a 16th-century castle situated on the bank of the River Corrib near Menlo village in County Galway, Ireland.
The castle is now a partial ruin with some accessible rooms and battlements and is the location of the Blarney Stone, a stone which is rumoured to give you the gift of eloquence when you kiss it. Spike Island, a former prison island located in Cork harbour, just off the coast of Cobh. A 24-acre star-shaped fort was built in the late 1700s and ...
The National Transport Museum of Ireland (Irish: Iarsmalann Náisiunta Iompair na hÉireann), the main project of the Transport Museum Society of Ireland, is based in the grounds of Howth Castle in Ireland. It is the current form of a project begun in the 1940s and restructured in the early 1970s.