What is recorded here

Newtown Castle is a 16th-century tower house in Ballyvaughan, built by the O’Loghlen family between 1550 and 1570. Its limestone walls hide a murder hole, spiral staircase and corner bartizans that let defenders watch the Burren while dropping stones on intruders. The O’Loghlens lost it to Cromwellian confiscation in 1654, after which the Stacpoole family added a Georgian house and lived there through decline and famine.

Newtown Castle is recorded as a castle in County Clare. Its open map record supplies this location and any linked names or public references.

Newtown Castle in County Clare was likely built in the 15th or 16th century by a local Gaelic family or Anglo-Norman lord, though specific builders remain unidentified. It is remembered as part of the medieval defensive landscape of the region, reflecting the complex territorial dynamics between native Irish and English settlers during that period.