
What is recorded here
Rossmanagher Castle stands in ruins in County Clare, Ireland, its tower house reduced to a skeleton of stone. The cliff edge may have swallowed the building whole during a violent storm, dragging human history beneath the sea in a single night. What remains above water is only the part the ocean refused to take.
See attached document with details from Risteárd Ua Cróinín and Martin Breen, The Castles and Tower-houses of Co. Clare (unpublished report). Uploaded courtesy of R. Ua Cróinín and M. Breen.
Date of upload: 18 December 2014
Rossmanagher Castle was built in the late 16th or early 17th century by a member of the Ó Briain (O'Brien) family, the Gaelic lords of Clare. It is remembered as an example of a defensive tower house in a region shaped by both Gaelic and Anglo-Norman influences.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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