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Cappagh Castle

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Cappagh Castle
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Why this matters

Cappagh Castle was built in the 17th century by the Blake family, an influential Anglo-Irish landowning family in County Limerick. It is remembered as a historic family seat and an example of early Irish country house architecture.

Overview

Cappagh Castle is recorded as Castle in Limerick. The saved record does not give a safe building date. The saved evidence fixes the place and classification, while builders, attacks and later use remain open unless a named source establishes them.

Who built and held it

The saved record identifies Cappagh Castle as Castle. It does not safely name a builder, owner or garrison, so no famous namesake has been borrowed.

Attack, change and use

No particular siege, capture, rebuilding or later use is established by the saved public wording. Those events remain unknown unless the linked record or later evidence identifies them.

What survives

The place is saved as OpenStreetMap point or centre of the mapped shape. Its classification is Castle; this first account does not claim that a complete building survives where the record may represent ruins, earthworks or a broad mapped area.

Why it mattered

The record preserves Cappagh Castle as a local defensive or high-status place and gives readers an exact starting point for its history. Its wider importance and local stories are not invented where the present evidence is silent.

History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.

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