What is recorded here
On a small island in extreme NW arm of Lough Corrib close to SE end of Gleann an Mháma. This 13th-C keep, now a Nat. Mon., was apparently built c. 1235 by Feidhlim, king of Connacht, as a replacement for an earlier castle built c. 1200 and burnt in 1233. Known locally as Caisleán na Circe, it originally belonged to…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA039-020
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- Dr Wotsit, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Graham Horn, Wikimedia Commons / Geograph Britain and Ireland
- Maker not stated on source page, www.flickr.com
- Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
- Michael Earnshaw, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Maker not stated on source page, nexusnewsfeed.com
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