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Liscannor Castle (in Ruins)

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Liscannor Castle (in Ruins)
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Mortuary chests and chamber fragments still mark Liscannor Castle, though much of the tower house has gone. What remains is a sharp edge of Clare stone, not a postcard ruin. The missing parts may have been lost to time, reuse or forgetting; the visible parts still prove that the castle existed and resisted erosion.
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attached document with details from Risteárd Ua Cróinín and Martin Breen, The Castles and Tower-houses of Co. Clare (unpublished report).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: 5 December 2014
Liscannor Castle was built in the late 16th century by the O'Donnell family, a prominent Gaelic Irish clan. It is remembered as an example of a defensive tower house constructed during a period of political instability and English expansion in western Ireland.

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Photo: Roger Diel · CC BY-SA 2.0