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Mortimer Annesley, Viscount Ward of Daisy, died at the castle in 1641. He was a young man full of energy and ambition. History remembers him as a violent loyalist, but love and loss may have shaped him more than politics. His story still echoes through the halls of Killruan.

On a rise in low-lying pasture. A raised D-shaped area (c. 38m NW–SE; c. 26m NE–SW), with a straight SE side, enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.5m; H 0.4m) with a shallow intervening fosse (Wth 4.2m; D 0.3m), a very wide, low outer bank (Wth 8.25m; H 1.1m) and an outer fosse (Wth 4.7m; D 0.35m). From ENE–E–SE the outer bank and fosse have been largely levelled due to the construction of a modern NE–SW field boundary. The original entrance is not recognisable. The rath is very densely overgrown with scrub rendering satisfactory inspection impossible. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 28 November 2011

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