Tralee Castle
| Tralee Castle | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | Caisleán Thrá Lí | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Standing position : | Irish nobility | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone | |
| Place: | Tralee | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 16 '6.2 " N , 9 ° 42' 14.3" W | |
| Height: | 5 m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference | |
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Tralee Castle ( Irish Caisleán Þrá Lí ) is an Outbound castle in the center of Tralee in Ireland's County Kerry . It belonged to the Denny family . Today nothing of it has survived. The Burgstall is now at the northern end of the large city park.
history
The city castle was built in the early 13th century by John FitzGerald , 1st Baron of Desmond , who also founded the town of Tralee around 1216.
In 1580 in the Earl of Desmond Rebellion , the castle was first destroyed. In 1586, after the Irish rebellion was put down, the town and castle came to knight Sir Edward Denny. The castle was destroyed again in 1598 and then rebuilt until 1627. In 1641/42 the castle was destroyed again and in 1653 it was renewed for Sir Arthur Denny (1629–1673), High Sheriff of Kerry from 1656 .
The castle suffered its fourth destruction in 1691, but was rebuilt, this time as a palace and mansion . From 1782 the manor was the center of the Denny baronetship . In 1826 the property was finally closed. Today's Park of Tralee formerly belonged to real estate of the castle. At its southwest end is an artificial grotto made of hewn stones, which , according to the 2013 book by Jane O'Hea O'Keeffe , was built around 1800 using stones from the estate.
description
Little information is known about the castle. A city map from 1756 shows the complex as a two-part square property with the entrance facing north to the main street, an L-wing facing west and south-west and part to the east; a park followed south of the castle.
A drawing by Sarah Harnett from 1824 shows the mansion shortly before it was laid down as a three-storey four-part building: to the west of a central projectile with a pointed gable facing south, two architecturally separate building parts with a three-part entrance directly on the central projectile, which according to the drawing barely protruded, and one with Ivy apparently occupied a windowless eastern section, but with an entrance with a triangular gable .
literature
- Gerald O'Carroll: The Pocket History of Kerry , Polymath Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-954-79021-9 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael C. O'Laughlin: Denny of Tralee . In: Families of Co. Kerry, Ireland . Irish Roots Café. 1999. Retrieved January 24, 2019.
- ↑ a b c d Tralee Castle, Tralee, Co. Kerry ; accessed on June 13, 2017