What is recorded here
Castle, unclassified stands in Ballyminoge, County Clare, a castle whose precise purpose and history remain unknown. It may have been a home, a fortress, or a boundary marker, shaped by the same hands and conflicts that built every other castle in the region. Its uncertainty does not weaken it; it refuses a simple label and preserves the chance that it was something less ordinary.
See attached document with details from Risteárd Ua Cróinín and Martin Breen, The Castles and Tower-houses of Co. Clare (unpublished report). Uploaded courtesy of R. Ua Cróinín and M. Breen.
Date of upload: 10 December 2014
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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