Moorstown Castle

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Moorstown Castle
Moorstown Castle 2011

Moorstown Castle 2011

Alternative name (s): Caisleán Bhaile na Móna
Creation time : Late 15th century
Castle type : Niederungsburg (Tower House)
Conservation status: ruin
Standing position : Irish nobility
Construction: Quarry stone
Place: Currenstown
Geographical location 52 ° 23 '18.1 "  N , 7 ° 49' 47.7"  W Coordinates: 52 ° 23 '18.1 "  N , 7 ° 49' 47.7"  W.
Height: 102  m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference
Moorstown Castle (Ireland)
Moorstown Castle

Moortown Castle ( Irish Caisleán Bhaile na Móna ) is the ruin of a tower house in the district Currenstown , 9.5 km west of Clonmel in Ireland's County Tipperary .

description

The Tower House consists of a round donjon and an enclosure by a courtyard wall. This is not typical for Ireland, as most tower houses there have a square or rectangular floor plan.

history

James Keating , an ally of the Duke of Ormonde , had Moorstown Castle built in the late 15th century. The castle and its lands fell to Robert Cox in 1635 and then to the Greene family by marriage . In 1855 Richard Grubb bought the property through Landed Estates Court . It is still in private hands today.

It is thought that the Catholic priest, poet and historian Seathrún Céitinn ( Geoffrey Keating ) had family connections with this castle. There is evidence that he was the third son of James FitzEdmund Keating of Moorstown Castle and may have been born at Moorstown Castle.

Moorstown Castle was one of the filming locations of Stanley Kubrick's monumental film Barry Lyndon from 1975.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ByRoute 4.2 Co. Tipperary & Co. Cork (W) . irelandbyways.com. 2011. Archived from the original on March 23, 2019. Retrieved on May 13, 2019.
  2. ^ John T. Koch: Celtic culture: a historical encyclopedia . ABC-CLIO. P. 361. 2006. Retrieved May 13, 2019.
  3. ^ Bernadette Cunningham: The World of Geoffrey Keating: History, Myth and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Ireland . Four Courts Press. S. 21. 2000. Retrieved May 13, 2019.
  4. ↑ Bernadette Cunningham: Geoffrey Keating's family connections , Tipperary Historical Journal, XV, pp. 59-67, 2002
  5. ↑ Barry Lyndon Kubrick's Irish Odyssey . Indelible Inc .. 2011. Retrieved May 13, 2019.

literature

Web links

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