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Rock of Dunamase

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Rock of Dunamase
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Masc’s red hair still tangles in the grass when the wind shifts, dragging king and conqueror back into the same breath. Aoife walked that rock twice, first as a bride and later as a mother arranging another marriage, while marble chambers waited for hands that never came. Cronin’s boys flew over the wall in 1650, but they flew into a house already empty, and the rock gave back only shadow.
Rock of Dunamase is recorded as a castle in County Laois. Its open map record supplies this location and any linked names or public references.
Rock of Dunamase was held by the O'Mores, a powerful Gaelic Irish dynasty, and later by the de Burghs during the medieval period. It is important as a strategic hillfort and castle site with a long history of conflict and control in Leinster.

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