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Durrow Castle

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Durrow Castle is a castle in County Laois, Ireland. Perhaps its walls still hold the shape of hands that built them, pressing stone until it became a room for storms and feasts. Maybe the castle was never finished because completion would have required admitting the scaffolding of memory that still leans inside it.
Durrow Castle is recorded as a castle in County Laois. Its open map record supplies this location and any linked names or public references.
Durrow Castle was built in the 13th century by the de Lacy family, an influential Norman dynasty in Ireland. It is remembered as a strategic stronghold in the medieval defense of the region and as an example of early Norman architecture in Ireland.

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