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Kildangan Castle

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Kildangan Castle
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According to Bence-Jones (1978, 166) the present ‘Kildangan House’, dating to 1882-6, and in the Victorian-Jacobean style, stands on the site of an earlier castle which had square corner towers, and which was dynamited in 1882. The castle was originally in the possession of a branch of the Fitzgerald family. (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 379) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 31 August 2012

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KD027-016

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  • Kildangan GAA club website; individual photographer not named, www.kildangangaa.com
  • Sarah777 at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Maker not stated on source page, jp.pinterest.com
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.flickr.com
  • Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
  • Maker not stated on source page, readymap.irish
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.pinterest.com
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