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Depicted on an 1853 sketch of an original ‘Plan of the Castle of Ballyshannon, with its Outworks, in 1650’, where it is shown under attack during the Confederate War (1641-53)(Fitzgerald 1899-1902, 447). The plan shows a substantial Fitzgerald castle, consisting of a large double-gabled building, of apparently three stories plus attic, with crenelations on the N facade, and a rectangular tower, also crenelated, projecting from the centre of the N wall, together with a tall circular turret projecting from the SW angle overlooking one of the two entrances. The castle stood in the NE corner of a well-defended square bawn with a crenelated wall and towers at the NW and SE angles. A second entrance, with a drawbridge/causeway, is shown mid-way along the N wall. A bastioned fort (KD032-003001-) encloses the castle and bawn, as well as a motte (KD028-058001-) and church (KD028-058002-) nearby, to the N. No visible surface traces survive.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 21 May 2013
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