Castle Hackett
| Castle Hackett | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | Caisleán to Haicéadaigh | |
| Creation time : | 13th Century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg (Tower House) | |
| Conservation status: | well preserved | |
| Standing position : | Irish nobility | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone | |
| Place: | Tuam | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 29 '44.2 " N , 8 ° 58' 6.8" W | |
| Height: | 42 m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference | |
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Castle Hackett ( Irish Caisleán to Haicéadaigh ) is a Tower House from the 13th century at the foot of the hill Cnoc Meadha , about 10 km southwest of Tuam in Ireland's County Galway .
history
The castle was built for the Hacketts , a Norman family. In the 15th century, Castle Hackett was inhabited by the Kirwans , one of the tribes of Galway . The Castlehacket branch of the family was founded by Sir John Kirwan in the mid-17th century . In the 18th century the castle was abandoned and the Kirwans built a new three-story country house called "Castlehacket". This house was burned down during the Civil War in 1923 , but was later rebuilt. It still stands today.
In the literature
In the 1888 introduction to Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry , William Butler Yeats mentions the family and Castlehacket; he writes:
"Every country usually has a family or person who is delighted or plagued [with fairy-seeing skills], particularly phantoms like the Hackets of Castle Hacket, Galway, who had a fairy ancestor ..."
Individual evidence
- ^ William Butler Yeats: Fairy and Folk Tales of Ireland . Macmillan Publishing, 1983. ISBN 0-02-255640-3 . P. 4.
swell
- Ronan Lynch: The Kirwans of Castlehackett . 2006.
- Roderic O'Flaherty: A Chorographical Description of West Or H-Iar Connaught, Written AD 1684 . 1846. Retrieved December 14, 2018 ..
- Sean Spellissy: The History of Galway . 1999.
- Mike Salter: The Castles of Connacht . 2004.