Carrickkildavnet Castle

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Carrickkildavnet Castle
Carrickkildavnet Castle

Carrickkildavnet Castle

Alternative name (s): Caisleán Ghráinne, Kildavnet Castel / Tower, Grace O'Malley's Castle, Kildownet Tower
Creation time : around 1429
Castle type : Niederungsburg (Tower House)
Conservation status: ruin
Standing position : Irish nobility
Construction: Cloghmore
Place: Cong
Geographical location 53 ° 52 '51.1 "  N , 9 ° 56' 45.2"  W Coordinates: 53 ° 52 '51.1 "  N , 9 ° 56' 45.2"  W.
Height: 3  m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference
Carrickkildavnet Castle (Ireland)
Carrickkildavnet Castle

Carrickkildavnet Castle ( Irish Caisleán Ghráinne ) is the ruin of a tower house on the island Acaill in Irish County Mayo . It is considered a national monument . The castle is located in the townland of Carrickkildavnet (Irish Cill Damhnait ) on the southeast corner of Acaill across from the An Corrán peninsula . This is a strategically important site protecting the mouth of the Gob at Choire and the passage between Clew Bay and Blacksod Bay .

history

Carrickkildavnet Castle had the Ó Máille (O'Malleys), kings of Umaill , built around 1429. It later served as the fortress of Gráinne Ni Mháille (Grace O'Malley, approx. 1530 - approx. 1603), the famous "pirate queen". Her other fortresses were with Rockfleet Castle in Clew Bay and on Clare Island .

description

It is a tower house with four floors. The ground floor has a vaulted ceiling and a hole in one corner of this ceiling is the only access to the upper floors, presumably for defense reasons. Further details, which served to protect against intruders, are a chamber in the outer wall, a machiculi , loopholes , buttress fortifications in the upper part and the - today ruined - enclosure wall.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Mullen: Mayo: The Waters and the Wild . Dundurn. January 1, 2004. Retrieved March 20, 2019.
  2. ^ Margaret Greenwood, Mark Connolly, Geoff Wallis: Ireland . Rough guides. January 1, 2003. Retrieved March 20, 2019.
  3. ↑ Granuaile's Tower, Kildavnet, Achill Iceland, Ireland . In: AitThemes.com . Achill Tourism. Retrieved March 20, 2019.
  4. ↑ Kildavnet Castle, Achill Island . In: Destination Westport . Retrieved March 20, 2019.
  5. ↑ Kildavnet Castle (2013) . Achill Archaeological Field School. Retrieved March 20, 2019.
  6. ^ Carrickkildavnet Castle . Irish Antiquities. Retrieved March 20, 2019.
  7. ↑ 10 Kildavnet Castle Pictures and Images . Getty Images. Retrieved March 20, 2019.
  8. ^ Carrickkildavnet Castle & Church Co Mayo . In: Ireland in Ruins . Awesome Inc .. January 25, 2016. Retrieved March 20, 2019.

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The castle with Gob on Choire and Corraun Hill on the other bank