
What is recorded here
Moynoe Castle stands in County Clare as a ruined tower house, its stone walls still marking the ground where human hands built against weather and time. The structure has watched the landscape change for centuries, surviving the loss of its roof, rooms and purpose. What remains is a vertical shadow in the field, sturdy enough to suggest pride, broken enough to admit forgetfulness.
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attached document with details from Risteárd Ua Cróinín and Martin Breen, The Castles and Tower-houses of Co. Clare (unpublished report).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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