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New Castle is a castle in County Limerick, Ireland. Perhaps its stones still hold the shape of hands that built them, waiting for someone to remember the weight of each brick. Maybe the castle was never finished, its doors left open because completion belonged to the people who would live inside it. Imagine a kitchen fire burning at dawn, the smell of bread moving through empty chambers until the house became warm enough to keep.
New Castle is recorded as a castle in County Limerick. Its open map record supplies this location and any linked names or public references.
New Castle in County Limerick was likely built during the 13th or 14th century by an Anglo-Norman lord or local gentry, as part of the expansion of Norman influence in Munster. It is remembered as an example of medieval frontier architecture in a region shaped by conflict between native Irish and Anglo-Norman settlers.

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