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Conn O'Neill's Castle Site

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Conn O'Neill's Castle Site
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Conn O'Neill's Castle Site is a fort in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the missing castle and filled fosse hide a chamber where forgotten people still argue about ownership. Maybe the absent walls protect the living from remembering what they buried. Imagine the vanished stone returning only when someone stops pretending the land is empty.
Site only, the ruin has disappeared over the years and the fosse surrounding the castle was filled in during WWII.
Conn O'Neill's Castle was built in the 16th century by Conn O'Neill, a Gaelic lord of Clandeboy, as a stronghold during a period of political and military conflict in eastern Ulster. The site is historically significant as it reflects the power and resistance of Gaelic chieftains against English expansion in Ireland.

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