Macroom Castle
| Macroom Castle Caisleán Mhaigh Chromtha |
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 Gatehouse of Macroom Castle |
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| Alternative name (s): | Caisleán Uí Fhloinn | |
| Creation time : | 12th Century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Irish nobility | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone | |
| Place: | Macroom | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 54 '17.3 " N , 8 ° 57' 37.1" W | |
| Height: | 84 m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference | |
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Macroom Castle ( Irish Caisleán Mhaigh Chromtha ) is the ruin of a lowland castle in Macroom in Ireland's County Cork , they served to protect a ford across the River Sullane .
The main building, based on the original donjon , is a three-story block with 6 bays by 3 bays, which is now entirely covered with ivy . The only other building of the castle still preserved today is the gatehouse with the adjacent walls.
history
The castle was probably built for the O'Flynn family in the 12th century ; her old Irish name is Caisleán Uí Fhloinn . The O'Flynns owned land in this part of what was then the Muskerry Kingdom , but were then defeated by the McCarthys, who lived at the castle until the mid-17th century. Tiege McCarthy , father of Lord Muskerry , had the castle restored and expanded; he died there in 1565. In 1602, the then owner, Cormac McDermot Carthy, Lord Muskerry , was captured and the castle was besieged while it caught fire. In the 1641 Rebellion, the Papal envoy Donough McCarthy, 2nd Viscount Muskerry , visited the castle for four days.
In 1650, Boetius McEgan , Bishop of Ross , assembled a confederate army at the castle, but when Cromwell's troops under Lord Broghill advanced, the garrison set the castle on fire again before joining the rebel army in the castle park. In the resulting battle, the bishop and the high sheriff of Kerry were captured, the sheriff shot, and the bishop offered the liberty if he was to persuade the garrison of Carrigadrohid Castle to give up. But when the enemy army arrived in Carrigadrohid , the bishop preferred to exhort the garrison there to hold out; he was hanged from a nearby tree. Later in the war, Macroom Castle is reported to have been burned down again by General Ireton's forces.
In the Commonwealth era, the castle fell to Admiral William Penn , father of the founder of the US state of Pennsylvania . After the Stuart Restoration , Macroom Castle was returned to the McCarthys, who had it expanded and restored again. In 1691 the property was confiscated from Donough McCarthy, 4th Earl of Clancarty , for his loyalty to King James II of England and auctioned in 1703. The Hollow Sword Blade Co. bought it and sold it to Judge Bernard . Then it fell to the Hedges Eyre family and then to Lord Ardilaun . Macroom Castle was burned down one last time in 1922, after the withdrawal of British auxiliaries, by anti-treaty forces led by Robert Erskine Childers and Frank O'Connor .
Lady Olivia Ardilaun , a descendant of the McCarthys clan chiefs and widow of Lord Ardilaun, sold the castle in 1924 to a group of local businessmen who managed it for the town's residents.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Barry Keane: Protestant Cork in decline 1911-1926; Murders, Mistakes, Myths, and Misinformation . Archived from the original on October 11, 2016. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
swell
- CL Adams: Castles of Ireland; some fortress histories and legends. P. 289.
