What is recorded here

Dough Castle stands as a ruined tower house at Lahinch in County Clare, built by the O'Connors in 1306 to control the Inagh River mouth. The castle kept its shape through the Cromwellian era because local hosts protected English settlers, yet sandbanks beneath its foundations finally swallowed one side before 1839 and the chimney in 1883. Tradition claims Donn of the sandhills still haunts the shifting ground, while the missing castle chambers may have simply returned their stones to the river that birthed them.

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