Gallarus Castle

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Gallarus Castle
Contae Chiarraí
Near Dingle/An Daingean in  Ireland
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Gallarus Castle
Coordinates 52°10′33″N10°21′21″W / 52.17583°N 10.35583°W / 52.17583; -10.35583
Type Tower house
Height4 storeys
Site information
Owner Knight of Kerry
Conditionrestored
Site history
Built15th century

Gallarus Castle is a four-storey rectangular tower house in Baile na nGall, County Kerry, Ireland and is notable as one of the few fortified structures preserved on the Dingle Peninsula.

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History

Gallarus Castle was built in the 15th century by the Knight of Kerry, the holder of a hereditary knighthood belonging to the Geraldine Dynasty. It is now an Irish heritage site.

The building has been extensively restored and a new rectangular doorway inserted in the north wall. There is no evidence of a stone stairway below the second floor. A mural stairway rises in the east wall and the ceilings on the third and fourth floor are vaulted.

Gallarus Castle stands about 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) away from the better known and more historically significant Gallarus Oratory. [1]

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References

  1. Anonymous 1846, p.  228: "Gallerus or Gollerus, a village, and a cluster of curious antiquities, near the head of Smerwick Harbour, parish of Kilmelehedor, barony of Corkaguiney, County Kerry, Munster. The antiquities are a curious hermitage, a tower  .. and a castle which belonged to the Fitzgeralds, Knights of Kerry ..."

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