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Parkavonear Castle is a 13th-century Anglo-Norman ruin in Aghadoe, County Kerry, built after the 1169 invasion and named for the field of the meadow. Its cylindrical keep rises two stories with walls two metres thick, forcing invaders to climb an internal staircase while defenders watched from above. The lost wooden floors and roof have vanished, leaving only stone and faint earthworks to mark where ladders were once pulled up against attack.

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

Built by the O'Donoghue clan in the 15th or 16th century, Parkavonear Castle is remembered as a historic stronghold in County Kerry, reflecting the regional power and territorial divisions of the Gaelic aristocracy in pre-colonial Ireland.