Dunboy Castle
| Dunboy Castle | ||
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 Remains of Puxley Castle near Dunboy Castle |
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| Alternative name (s): | Caisleán Dhún Baoi | |
| Creation time : | 16th Century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Irish nobility | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone | |
| Place: | Castletownbere | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 37 '59.4 " N , 9 ° 55' 50.2" W | |
| Height: | 23 m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference | |
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Dunboy Castle ( Irish : Caisleán Dhun Baoi ) is the ruin of a lowland castle on the Beara Peninsula near the town of Castletownbere in Ireland's County Cork . It was a fortress owned by O'Sullivan Bere , a Gaelic clan chief and "chief of Dunboy"; from there the port of Berehaven (Castletownbere) should be guarded and defended. The existence of Dunboy Castle enabled O'Sulliven Bere to control the sea fishing grounds off the Irish coast and to impose taxes on Irish and continental European ships that took refuge in the harbor. Dunboy Castle was also a center for import and export to and from continental Europe. Today much of the castle has been destroyed, but the ruins are open to the public.
Dunboy Castle was besieged in the summer of 1602 , which eventually led to its destruction and the breaking of the power of O'Sullivan Bere . At that time, Donal Cam O'Sullivan Beare was in rebellion against the English crown and Queen Elizabeth I had sent an army of 5,000 men under the command of George Carew, 1st Earl of Totnes , to suppress the rebels. Despite its small garrison of only 143 men, Dunboy Castle was considered impregnable, but after a wild artillery bombardment the walls were crumbled and after some hopeless man-to-man fighting in the rubble of the walls, the defenders were finally defeated. The 58 survivors of the two-week siege were executed in the nearby market square.
Near the castle ruins is the Puxley Mansion , a 19th century country house . It was burned down by the IRA in 1920 in retaliation for the destruction of houses containing IRA men and guns by Crown troops. Some restoration work was completed in the 2000s, but financial problems prevented the country house from being converted into a hotel and opening.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christi Daugherty: Frommer's Ireland 2008 . P. 299.
- ^ Louise Roseingrave: Funds run out for Puxley restoration . In: The Irish Times . June 16, 2011. Retrieved July 13, 2018.
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- Pól Uí Súileabháin: The Last Chieftain of Gaelic Ireland: The True Story of Donal O'Sullivan Bere . Beara Historical Association, 2004.
- TD Sullivan: Bantry, Berehaven and the O'Sullivan Sept . Tower Books, Cork 1978.
- Gerard (Gerdie) Harrington: In the Path of Heroes: Stories of Beara and Bantry . The Beara Historical Association.
