Doonagore Castle
| Doonagore Castle | ||
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 Doonagore Castle over the seaside village of Doolin and the Atlantic Ocean |
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| Alternative name (s): | Gore's Castle | |
| Creation time : | 16th Century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg (Tower House) | |
| Conservation status: | restored | |
| Standing position : | Irish nobility | |
| Construction: | Sandstone - quarry stone | |
| Place: | Doolin | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 0 '13.8 " N , 9 ° 23' 14.8" W | |
| Height: | 61 m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference | |
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Doonagore Castle ( Irish Caisleán Dhún na gCorr ) is a round tower house with a small enclosure from the 16th century, about 1 km above the coastal town of Doolin in County Clare, Ireland . The name could be derived from the Irish Dún na gCorr (English: "round hill fort") or Dún na nGabhar ("goat fort"). Today Doonagore Castle is a private holiday home and not open to the public.
Location
Doonagore Castle sits on a hill above Doolin Point and, together with the nearby, higher transmission mast, serves as a navigation point for ships approaching Doolin Pier . The area belongs to the townland of Donnagore, part of the parish of Killilagh . It is also often stated that it is in an area called the Burren .
history
During the 14th century, Tadgh (Teigue) MacTurlough MacCon O'Connor had a castle built on or near the site of an even earlier Ráth .
The current building probably dates from the middle of the 16th century. Unlike most tower houses in the area, this one was not built from limestone , but from sandstone , which comes from the Trá Leachain quarry ( Flaggy Beach ) about 2 km southwest of the castle.
In 1570, Doonagore Castle belonged to Sir Donald (or Donnell ) O'Brien of the O'Brien dynasty and in 1582, Brian MacCahill O'Connor lived there . In 1583 most of the property in this area fell to the Crown and was loaned to Turlough O'Brien from Ennistymon . Doonagore Castle soon fell to the MacClancy (or Clancy ) family, the hereditary Brithems of the O'Briens.
In September 1588, a ship of the panicked Armada ran aground below the castle. 170 survivors of the accident were from the High Sheriff of Clare , Boetius Clancy , captured and Doonagore Castle or on a nearby hillside grave names Cnocán to Crochaire suspended.
After the 1641 Rebellion , Doonagore Castle was loaned to John Sarsfield in the Cromwell Settlement Act .
At the end of the 17th or beginning of the 18th century, the castle came into the possession of the Gore family , which led to the misnomer "Gore's Castle". The family had the Tower House repaired in the early 19th century, but in 1837 it fell into disrepair again.
In the 1970s, architect Percy Leclerc restored Doonagore Castle for a private buyer, Irish-American John C. Gorman , whose family still owns it today.
description
Doonagore Castle is one of only three cylindrical tower houses in the Burren; the other two are Newtown Castle and Faunarooska Castle at Fanore . It is mostly made of sandstone, but some decorations are also sculpted from limestone. The Tower House originally had four floors and a basement. The first floor had a honeycomb vaulted ceiling . The entrance was through a Machicolation protected under the wall dealing. A fence surrounded the Tower House.
literature
- M. Breen, R. Ua Cróínín: Some restored towerhouses in the Burren area of Co. Clare in The Other Clare . Issue XXVI (2002). Shannon Archeological and Historical Society. Pp. 8-15.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c d Hugh Carthy: Burren Archeology . The Collins Press, 2011. ISBN 978-1-848891-05-0 . P. 99.
- ^ A b c Anne Korff: The Burren - O'Brien Country - A Ramblers Guide and Map . Tir Eolas, 1989.
- ^ A b c Hugh Carthy: Burren Archeology . The Collins Press, 2011. ISBN 978-1-848891-05-0 . P. 101.
- ^ Hugh Carthy: Burren Archeology . The Collins Press, 2011. ISBN 978-1-848891-05-0 . P. 103.