1600s – St. Leger’s Castle, Ardee, Co. Louth
One of two castles on the main street and known locally as the Court House, this early 17th century castle has been recently restored and will be turned to civic usage.
One of two castles on the main street and known locally as the Court House, this early 17th century castle has been recently restored and will be turned to civic usage.
John de Courcy built a castle on what is now Castle Street in the city centre in the 12th century. By the early 17th century when Sir Arthur Chichester,
Monea Castle is situated where a Maguire castle would have been based prior to the Plantation and a crannog is still visible alongside.
Constructed in 1622 by Roland Savage, on the site of a ninth-century round tower. It was occupied until 1731, the castle is in the late medieval tower-house tradition.
Constructed over several centuries – the classic form of the fortified Irish tower house visible as part of the Jacobean mansion.
“This highly picturesque ruin is situated on the Nore, about four miles from Kilkenny, and derives its name, Inchmore, or the Great Island,
Lemenagh Castle was both a castle (1480) and fortified house (1640) and was one of the principal strongholds of the O’Brien’s.
A sizable fortified town house that belonged to the rich mercantile Taaffe family who became Earls of Carlingford in 1661. It’s close proximity to the harbour would suggest that trade was conducted from here,
There has been a castle at Glenarm since the 13th century, and it is at the heart of one of Northern Ireland’s oldest estates.
The estate began in 1185, when Richard Talbot, a knight who accompanied Henry II to Ireland in 1174, was granted the “lands and harbour of Malahide”.