What is recorded here

Cloughoughter Castle rises from Lough Oughter as a circular stone wound, its thick rubble walls marking the spot where Owen Roe O’Neill died in 1649 and Cromwell’s guns later broke its south face. The lake keeps the castle private, admitting only boats and memory, while the lost causeway appears and disappears with the water. What remains is not a polite ruin but a trap made visible: high entry, narrow island, and walls deep enough to hide lives inside them.

This page uses the checked exact public identity for Cloughoughter Castle. For a large lake, park or mountain range, the map point marks the named place as a whole.

Cloughoughter Castle, located in County Cavan, was built in the 14th century by the MacMurrough Kavanagh family, Gaelic chieftains of the O’Reilly clan. It is important as a historically significant stronghold that played a key role in conflicts between Gaelic Irish and English forces, and it was the site of a major battle during the Irish Rebellion of 1641.

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