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Barnaderg Castle

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Barnaderg Castle stood as a sixteenth-century stronghold for the O'Kelly clan in County Galway, guarding the red gap named in Irish tradition. Its stones may have shaken during violent storms or held warm during long winter nights, while local children still run past the village school built decades later. The castle has faded from common memory, but it remains written in the land, waiting for someone to walk beside it and imagine the people who defended it.
Barnaderg Castle is recorded as a castle in County Galway. Its open map record supplies this location and any linked names or public references.
Barnaderg Castle was built by the O'Flaherty clan in the 15th or 16th century in County Galway. It is remembered as a historic Gaelic stronghold associated with the powerful and often rebellious O'Flaherty family during the late medieval period.

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Photo: Nigel Thompson · CC BY-SA 2.0