
What is recorded here
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attached document with details from Risteárd Ua Cróinín and Martin Breen, The Castles and Tower-houses of Co. Clare (unpublished report).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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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Lahinch BeachBeach / strand · 1.6 mi
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Photo: Roger Diel · CC BY-SA 2.0