Kinlough Castle
| Kinlough Castle | |
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County Mayo | |
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 Kinlough Castle | |
| Type: | Tower house |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | M25965040 |
| Location: | 53°29’55"N, 9°6’60"W |
| Village: | Kinlough, Shrule |
| History | |
| Built 16th century | |
| Information | |
| Owned by: | Heritage Ireland |
Kinlough Castle is a tower house in County Mayo, which is today enrolled as a 'national monument'.[1]
The castle is found two miles south-west of Shrule, on the west bank of the Black River.
History
The tower is thought to have been constructed in the 13th century AD, although the additional two storeys with corner fireplaces that were subsequently added to it, date from a 1574 remodelling by Sir John MacOliver Burke.[2]
There are loops in the battered base, and the entrance has a drawbar slot.
The castle was mortgaged to the Blakes in 1629, and leased by them to John Darcy in 1668.
The present tower house was built in the 16th century. In a map of 1584 it is described as a "MacWilliam House". "The MacWilliam Eighter", who was then Sir John FitzOliver Burke, lived there in 1574. In 1618 Sir Richard FitzOliver Burke was the Leasehold estate|tenant and his son, Walter, mortgaged it to Sir Valentine Blake of Menlough, in 1628. Sir Thomas Blake leased it to John Darcy in 1668 and Pierce Joyce purchased the lands in 1852.[3]
Description
Kinlough Castle is four storeys high, with gables at the east and west walls, but no crenellations. There are traces of a bartizan in the west wall. There are also three chimney stacks.[3]
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References
- ↑ Kinlough Castle - Swift Conservation
- ↑ "Castles of Co. Galway.". http://homepage.eircom.net/~rookery/castle7.html.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kinlough Castle: Irish Antiquities
