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Drumharsna Castle
This fine 16th-century five-storey castle is just off the road from Kinvara to Gort. It caught my eye because all its fine stonework at the windows, the door jambs and the quoins is intact, which is rare. Note the poppies growing way up on top!
From the www, the following sparse information is available:
"Known to have been owned by Shane Ballagh in 1574, this is a 16th century tower of five storeys, with the ground and second floor vaulted.
A spiral staircase, as usual, leads to the top. The castle was damaged when it was occupied in 1920."
An atrocity took place here in 1920 when the castle was garrisoned by the notorious Auxiliaries, or Black and Tans, as documented in this website:
republican-news.org/archive/2000/December07/07hist.html
This seems to me to be a perfect castle to open to the public with a minimum of alterations to the building.
(I've airbrushed a few power wires and a sign to clean up the picture)
Drumharsna Castle
This fine 16th-century five-storey castle is just off the road from Kinvara to Gort. It caught my eye because all its fine stonework at the windows, the door jambs and the quoins is intact, which is rare. Note the poppies growing way up on top!
From the www, the following sparse information is available:
"Known to have been owned by Shane Ballagh in 1574, this is a 16th century tower of five storeys, with the ground and second floor vaulted.
A spiral staircase, as usual, leads to the top. The castle was damaged when it was occupied in 1920."
An atrocity took place here in 1920 when the castle was garrisoned by the notorious Auxiliaries, or Black and Tans, as documented in this website:
republican-news.org/archive/2000/December07/07hist.html
This seems to me to be a perfect castle to open to the public with a minimum of alterations to the building.
(I've airbrushed a few power wires and a sign to clean up the picture)