King John's Castle, County Louth
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 King John's Castle |
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| Alternative name (s): | Carlingford Castle Caisleán Chairlinn |
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| Creation time : | Late 12th century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Irish nobility | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone | |
| Place: | Carlingford | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 2 '35.5 " N , 6 ° 11' 12.6" W | |
| Height: | 6 m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference | |
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King John's Castle (also Carlingford Castle , Irish Caisleán Rí Sheáin, Caisleán Chairlinn ) is the ruin of a lowland castle in Carlingford in Ireland's County Louth . The castle ruins are by the harbor, halfway along the south coast of Carlingford Lough . It is considered a national monument .
history
The west wing of Carlingford Castle was built by Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath , in the late 12th century, soon after the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland . The building was named "King John's Castle", after King John of England , Lord of Ireland , 1210, during his second expedition to Ireland when he was in the province of Ulster marched to Hugh de Lacy, 1st Earl of Ulster , arrest, allegedly spent three days there. Local myth has it that it was in Carlingford that he began designing the Magna Carta , which was ratified in 1215. Other sources attribute this to Ralph Pepper in 1204.
The east wing of the castle was added around 1261. In 1326 the castle was entrusted to Geoffrey le Bloud . Edmond Loundres was constable in 1388 , Stephen Gernon in 1400. Henry McShane O'Neill tried in 1596 to take the castle.
During the Irish Confederation Wars, the castle was in the hands of the Irish Catholic Confederation ; In 1642 it was taken by troops under Sir Henry Tichborne, 3rd Baronet , in 1649 by the forces of Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin , and in 1650 by those of Charles Coote, 1st Earl of Mountrath .
During the War of the Two Kings it was shelled by the Jacobites in 1689 and used by Friedrich von Schomberg as a Wilhelmine hospital before the Battle of the Boyne .
description
King John's Castle is a D-shaped castle with 3.4 meter thick walls. The curtain wall in the west wing had a gatehouse and a flanking tower with a square floor plan. It also contains deep loopholes with narrow arrow slots.
A large hall with a rectangular floor plan is located in the east wing; this hall has two main floors and a basement.
Individual evidence
- ^ Philip Dixon Hardy: The Dublin Penny Journal . JS Folds. January 1, 1832. Retrieved February 28, 2019.
- ^ Francis O'Dwyer: Irish American Post . Archived from the original on September 27, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 28, 2019.
- ↑ George Pepper: The Irish Shield and Monthly Milesian . January 1, 1829. Retrieved February 28, 2019.
- ^ Carlingford Castle . In: Castles.nl - Castles and other fortifications in Europe and beyond . Retrieved February 28, 2019.
- ^ Anne Campbell: Castle works progress . The Independent. May 2, 2015. Retrieved February 28, 2019.
- ^ Francis Grose: The antiquities of Ireland . S. Hooper. S. 3. January 1, 1795. Retrieved February 28, 2019.
- ↑ 1200 - King John's Castle, Carlingford, Co. Louth - Architecture of Louth . In: Archiseek - Irish Architecture . Irish Georgian Society. January 6, 2010. Retrieved February 28, 2019.
