Rathcoffey Castle
| Rathcoffey Castle | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | Caisleán Ráth Chofaigh | |
| Creation time : | 15th century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Irish nobility | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone | |
| Place: | Rathcoffey | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 19 '54 " N , 6 ° 39' 55.8" W | |
| Height: | 87 m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference | |
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Rathcoffey Castle ( Irish Caisleán Ráth Chofaigh ) is the ruin of a low castle on a field east of the village of Rathcoffey in County Kildare, Ireland . The ruin from the 15th century is a national monument .
description
The main part of the free-standing building is a two-story gatehouse that led to an enclosure in which the actual castle stood. There is a coupled window in the east wall . The building probably dates from the 15th century.
history
John Wogan received the Rathcoffey manor in 1317, and his descendants had a castle built there. The Wogans were Cambro-Normans , the name is believed to be derived from the Welsh Gwgan . In 1417 Rathcoffey Castle was mentioned in a Wittum of the Wogans.
In 1453 an army led by Richard Wogan attacked Rathcoffey Castle and captured it from his cousin Anne Eustace , née. Wogan . Anne was of an older line, but Richard was the oldest male heir. As a result of this conflict, Richard remained in control of Rathcoffey Castle, while Anne and her descendants of the Eustace family continued to own the lands of the Wogans and the Clangowes Wood .
In 1580, William Wogan joined the Second Desmond Rebellion , which supported the Roman Catholic cause. The following year he was executed and all of his land was confiscated. The family regained Rathcoffey Castle soon after.
In the Wars of the Three Kingdoms of the 1640s, the Wogans sided with Parliament and Colonel Monck's army marched on Rathcoffey Castle, which they then besieged. After the castle fell in 1642, many civilians were killed; their bones were found in a forest nearby in the 19th century. The castle garrison was executed in Dublin .
in the 18th century the castle belonged to Richard Wogan Talbot . Archibald Hamilton Rowan (later a leading United Irishman ) bought it in 1785 and had a new country house built on the property, into which the Wogans' house was integrated.
The property later passed into the hands of numerous owners before the Jesuits bought it and sold it to a local farmer in the 1970s.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rathcoffey Castle and Mansion House Ruins, County Kildare . In: Travelmaina Ireland . Accessed January 30, 2019.
- ↑ a b Rathcoffey, Kildare . In: Abandoned Ireland . Accessed January 30, 2019.
- ↑ Rathcooffey History . In: Seamus Cullen's Personal Web Site . Accessed January 30, 2019.