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Rockfleet Castle is a four-storey tower house on the rocky shoreline of Rockfleet Bay in County Mayo, built for the Burke clan and later made famous as the base of Gráinne Ní Máille. She commanded her fleet from its protected harbour, repelled a Galway siege in 1579, and returned after her audience with Queen Elizabeth I. The castle still stands with its spiral staircases, sea-emptying garderobe, and upper hoisting door, while the same Atlantic tide laps its limestone foundations.

Rockfleet Castle is recorded as a castle in County Mayo. Its open map record supplies this location and any linked names or public references.

Rockfleet Castle was built in the 13th century by the O'Flaherty clan, a powerful Gaelic Irish family in County Mayo. It is remembered as a strategic stronghold and a symbol of resistance against English expansion in the west of Ireland.