Drumboe Castle
| Drumboe Castle | ||
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 Drumboe Castle ruins |
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| Creation time : | 1622 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Irish nobility | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone | |
| Place: | Stranorlar | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 48 '5.4 " N , 7 ° 47' 20.7" W | |
| Height: | 23 m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference | |
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Drumboe Castle ( Irish Caisleán Dhroim Bó ) is the ruin of a lowland castle on the outskirts of Stranorlar in Ireland's County Donegal .
history
Construction and genealogy
In 1622, during the English conquest of Ulster , Robert Redington sold the Ballybofey estate to Sir Ralph Bingley . Bingley had the first Drumboe Castle built, which had four large towers. It protected a ford across the River Finn .
After Sir Ralph Bingley's death, his widow, Lady Jane , and Robert Harrington lived there until 1641; then the castle was given to Sir William Bazil , Attorney General for Ireland. He died in 1693.
A descendant of Sir William Bazil was named William Basil . He was born William Ball and then took the name Basil. Basil married Frances Dowdeswell around 1736. Their daughter, Mary Basil , married Sir Samuel Hayes, 1st Baronet . This marriage made the castle the home of the Hayes Baronets from 1789 to 1912 .
Irish Civil War
During the Irish Civil War , Drumboe Castle became the headquarters of the troops of the Free State of Ireland in County Donegal.
It became notorious as the site of the Drumboe Massacre in the Irish Civil War: on March 14, 1923, four IRA fighters, Charles Daly, 26, Sean Larkin, 26, Daniel Enwright, 23 and Timothy O'Sullivan, 23, who had been captured in January and had been imprisoned in the castle since, shot together in revenge for the death of a soldier of the National Army who died in an ambush.
demolition
The Georgian house was demolished in 1945.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage . 107th edition, Volume 1, p. 748.
- ^ William Ball, Enabling him and his Heirs to Use the Surname Basil . In: Deed Poll Office: Private Act of Parliament 1724 (11 Geo. 1). c. 2 . Retrieved October 4, 2018.
- ^ The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: Being a Complete Table of All the Descendants Now Living of Edward III, King of England in The Anne of Exeter volume . Volume 2: Melville Henry Massue marquis de Ruvigny et Raineval . Genealogical Publishing Company, 1994.
- ↑ Liam Ó Duibhir: Donegal & the Civil War: The Untold Story . Mercier Press, April 20, 2011.
- ↑ The Drumboe Martyrs 1923-2003 . Phoblacht . March 13, 2003. Retrieved October 4, 2018.
