Ardamullivan Castle
| Ardamullivan Castle | ||
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 Ardamullivan Castle |
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| Alternative name (s): | Caisleán Ard Mhaolabháin | |
| Creation time : | 16th Century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg (Tower House) | |
| Conservation status: | restored | |
| Standing position : | Irish nobility | |
| Construction: | Stone , plastered | |
| Place: | Shanaglish | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 0 '15.1 " N , 8 ° 49' 45.6" W | |
| Height: | 46 m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference | |
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Ardamullivan Castle ( Irish Caisleán Ard Mhaolabháin ) is a Tower House south about eight kilometers from Gort and about two kilometers southwest of the Lough Cutra in Irish County Galway and is considered a national monument .
history
Ardmullivan Castle was built by the O'Shaughnessy clan, who ruled over the Cenél Áeda na hEchtge region until it was expropriated in the 1650s when Ireland was retaken. The castle is mentioned for the first time after the death of Ruaidhrí Gilla Dubh Ó Seachnasaigh in 1567. In 1579 Diarmaid Riabach Ó Seachnasaigh and his nephew John fought in a dispute over the castle; the fight ended with the deaths of both combatants. Diarmaid Riabach had previously achieved general notoriety for having betrayed Richard Creagh , (1523–1586) the fled Catholic Archbishop of Armagh , to the administration.
The castle was restored in the 1990s; it received a new roof and was plastered with lime mortar. Wall paintings from the late Middle Ages were discovered on the first and third floors; these have been compared to those at Knockmoy Abbey and Clare Island Abbey . Pictured are a bishop, a deer hunt, Saint Christopher , a Way of the Cross and the Archangel Michael weighing the souls on Judgment Day .
description
The Tower House has six floors. Part of the original defensive wall is still preserved.
There are traces of crowd watch towers on the northeast and southwest corners and along the south wall. In addition, there is a Maschikuli , ( German killer hole ), many window slots, open chimneys and a sink. Traces of walls around the castle could be the remains of an original fence.
literature
- Peter Harbison : Guide to the Naional Monuments in the Republic of Ireland Gill and Macmillan, Dublin 1992 ISBN 0-7171-1956-4 p. 85
Individual evidence
- ^ Royal Institute of British Architects: RIBA Journal . January 14, 2018. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
- ^ Peadar O'Dowd: A History of County Galway: A comprehensive study of Galway's history, culture and people . Gill & Macmillan. October 5, 2004. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
- ↑ Michelle O. Riordan: Irish Bardic Poetry and Rhetorical Reality . Cork University Press. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
- ^ Catharina Day: Ireland . New Holland Publishers. Archived from the original on January 14, 2018. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
- ↑ Ardamullivan Castle, County Galway . In: www.irelandseye.com . Retrieved December 6, 2018.
- ↑ Ardamullivan Castle - Gort, County Galway, Ireland . In: gort.galway-ireland.ie . Retrieved December 6, 2018.
- ↑ Ravindra K. Dhir, M. Roderick Jones, Li Cheng: Repair And Renovation of Concrete Structures . Thomas Telford. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
- ^ David Sweetman: Medieval Castles of Ireland . Collins Press. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
- ↑ Therese Martin: Reassessing the Roles of Women as 'Makers' of Medieval Art and Architecture (2 Vol. Set) . BRILL. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
- ↑ Conleth Manning, Críostóir McCárthaigh, Kevin Whelan, Paul Gosling, John Waddell: New Survey of Clare Iceland: The Abbey . Royal Irish Academy. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
- ^ Seán Duffy: Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia . Routledge. January 15, 2005. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
- ↑ Dara Bradley: OPW urged to reopen castle as local tourism attraction . In: Connacht Tribune . February 5, 2017. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
- ^ Rachel Moss: Art and devotion in late medieval Ireland . Four Courts Press. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
- ↑ Castles of Ireland - Ardamullivan Castle . In: www.britainirelandcastles.com . Retrieved December 6, 2018.
