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Derryhivenny
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Portumna |
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This fortress was built in
1643 and situated at Ballycrossaum, north of Portumna. It
has stood a number of battles in the area.
To date, tourists can explore
what remained of this once majestic castle. The mullioned
windows, the spyhole, a fireplace, the hinge stone or the
hanging eye and the chimneypots can still be viewed – though
they aren’t appear as they used to be. |
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This fortress was built in
1643 and situated at Ballycrossaum, north of Portumna. It
has stood a number of battles in the area. To date, tourists
can explore what remained of this once majestic castle. The
mullioned windows, the spyhole, a fireplace, the hinge stone
or the hanging eye and the chimneypots can still be viewed –
though they aren’t appear as they used to be.
The building of true castles came more or less to an end in
Ireland with the outbreak of war in 1641 - one of the very
last being the tower house and bawn at Derryhivenny. Its
date is known from an inscription on one of its bartizan
corbels which reads "D:O'M ME:FIERI:FECIT 1643" and states
that Donal O'Madden built the castle in 1643.
A late date is supported by the absence of vaults on all
four storeys of the tower and by its picturesque diagonally
disposed Jacobean chimney-stacks. The upper rooms have two-
and three-mullioned windows with good fireplaces, including
one fine example with a plain chamfered lintel, curved
downwards at each end and covered by a chamfered cornice.
Along one side of the enclosure opposite the tower there are
fragments of a one-storey gabled building, possibly a stable
block.
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